NeGD is currently inviting applications for the Data Science Lead position on a contractual basis, initially for a period of three years, with possible extensions based on project requirements.

Responsibilities

Problem Formulation

• Translate business questions into well-defined problems with a clear decision, baseline and evaluation metric
• Assess data feasibility, including coverage, reporting delays, label quality, leakage and bias, and advise where the data is insufficient for the objective

Specialisation Responsibilities

• Predictive Analytics: time-series, hierarchical and spatial forecasts at district, state and national level, with reconciliation across levels and backtesting; risk, propensity and prioritisation scores; early-warning thresholds designed with the operational teams who will use them

• Fraud & Risk Analytics: fraud typologies defined with investigators; rules combined with unsupervised, semi-supervised and positive-unlabelled learning; entity resolution across individuals, bank accounts, addresses and documents; graph analysis of linked cases; risk scores with reason codes and review queues sized to investigator capacity; checks against identity, tax, document and bank-account records

Validation, Uncertainty & Monitoring

• Validate models with leakage-free schemes, and quantify uncertainty through prediction intervals, calibration and conformal prediction
• Monitor drift after go-live, including adaptation by fraudsters, and assess whether deployed models improved outcomes using experiments or quasi-experimental   methods

Responsible AI & Governance

• Audit fairness across regions and population groups, provide explanations for decisions affecting individuals, and maintain model cards, evaluation records and audit trails
• Apply anonymisation and data minimisation in compliance with DPDPA 2023 Analytics Products
• Deliver dashboards and analytical services on a shared metric layer, with the Data Engineering Lead and the engineering team

Team Leadership & Vendor Oversight

• Lead in-house data scientists, review their work, and remain hands-on
• Provide technical oversight of vendor teams, and recommend acceptance or rejection of deliverables

Important Links

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.