Integration & DevOps Engineer, Data-Activated Architecture for Resilient Transition (DART)

Location: Kampala, Uganda, with national and regional travel as required. Candidates must have current work authorization in Uganda; visa sponsorship is not available.

Company

Global consulting and implementation organization delivering technology and development solutions across infrastructure, health, energy, climate, and digital transformation.

What you will do

• Build and maintain integration pipelines, adapters, REST APIs, and workflow automations for priority digital health use cases.
• Map, transform, validate, and exchange data using approved HL7 FHIR profiles, identifiers, terminology mappings, and security controls.
• Configure and support OpenHIM, OpenFn or equivalent interoperability tools, API gateways, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems.
• Support approved Kafka event-streaming workflows, including schema management, topic governance, secure access, consumer monitoring, retention, and recovery testing.
• Maintain repositories, automated testing, deployment procedures, release controls, rollback plans, and operational runbooks.
• Troubleshoot interface failures, message queues, API performance issues, data-validation errors, and integration incidents while supporting technical reviews and capability transfer.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related discipline.
• At least 4 years of experience in systems integration, backend development, DevOps, or health information systems.
• Practical experience with REST APIs, JSON, XML, Git, CI/CD, Linux, Docker, automated testing, and monitoring.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Professional fluency in English and current authorization to work in Uganda are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with HL7 FHIR, OpenHIM, OpenFn, Kafka, API management, and digital health systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside the Ministry of Health, government units, and Ugandan technical partners.
• Support progressive transfer of integration and DevOps capability to government and local institutions.
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, user acceptance testing, change advisory processes, and post-release stabilization.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position may close when a suitable candidate is found.

Hiring process

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Successful candidates undergo safeguarding-focused interviews and rigorous due diligence.