NeGD is currently inviting applications for the position of Co-Lead – Digital Transformation & Strategy under the Capacity Building Scheme 3.0 on a contractual basis.

Responsibilities

• Digital Governance & Policy Formulation: Establish and execute a forward-looking digital governance roadmap. Draft techno-legal frameworks, interoperability standards, service-delivery benchmarks, and operational guidelines that set the digital practices for scalability, usability, accessibility, and reliability of government services.
• Technical and Process Advisory: Provide expertise for formulation of technology revamp of existing applications or development of new application taking due consideration to government process reengineering.
• Handling Solution Architecture: Handle delivery of Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Data Architecture, Integration Architecture, Building Blocks and IT Governance including Data Governance.
• Monitoring of Digital Governance Projects: Provide output / outcome matrix for the digital projects and suggest automated methods to monitor the progress of projects taking into consideration data analytics tools, alerts mechanism and escalation matrix.
• Cross-Tech Advisory (AI, Cloud, IoT, GIS): Act as the strategic bridge between policy and frontier technologies. Evaluate how emerging capabilities (AI decision systems, scalable sovereign cloud environments, IoT sensory networks, and GIS location intelligence) can be strategically infused into ministerial workflows to re-engineer government processes.
• Business Development & Strategic Expansion: Actively lead outreach and business development to expand NeGD’s footprint across Central Line Ministries, State Departments, and autonomous entities. Formulate customized value propositions, lead consultative discovery sessions, secure MoUs, and position NeGD’s digital products and consulting services.
• Strategy Development & Stakeholder Engagement: Conduct high-level policy consultation workshops with senior government leadership (Secretaries, IT Secretaries, State Mission Directors), industry bodies, think tanks, and startups to drive convergence and build consensus on digital transformation roadmaps.
• Procurement Advisory & Model Frameworks: Create Model Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Expression of Interest (EoI) frameworks, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) evaluation criteria for digital transformation and tech-policy consultancies.
• Data Privacy & Regulatory Compliance: Embed robust data governance, privacy-by-design principles, and compliance mechanisms (aligned with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and relevant government regulations) across national and state-level digital initiatives.
• Capacity Building & Knowledge Products: Curate policy briefs, white papers, readiness assessment tools, and institutional capacity-building programmes for administrative officers and State e-Governance Mission Teams (SeMTs).
• Collaboration & Operational Alignment: Collaborate closely with other verticals within NeGD/DIC and Independent Business Divisions (such as IndiaAI, Bhashini, and MyGov) to deliver holistic digital solutions.

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About National e-Governance Division (NeGD)

The National e-Governance Division (NeGD) is an independent business division under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. NeGD has been playing a pivotal role in supporting MeitY in Programme Management and implementation of e-Governance projects and initiatives undertaken by various Ministries/ Departments, both at the Central and State levels.

NeGD has been spearheading several innovative initiatives under the aegis of the Digital India Programme. Those have been developed keeping the vision areas of Digital India at the core- providing digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and in particular, digital empowerment of the citizens of our country; some of these initiatives include DigiLocker, UMANG, Poshan Tracker, OpenForge Platform, API Setu, National Academic Depository, Academic Bank of Credits, Learning Management System.