NeGD is currently inviting applications for the following positions purely on Contract basis initially for a period of 1 year which is further extendable as per the requirement of the project.

Qualifications:

• B.Tech./M.Tech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in solution/enterprise architecture or systems design, including at least 4 years in leading architecture teams or major technology transformation initiatives.
• Proven track record in designing large-scale, distributed systems and integrating complex platforms supporting millions of users (experience with government or public-sector platforms is a plus).

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and evolve the enterprise architecture for the SIDH platform, ensuring it can integrate seamlessly with critical government systems (e.g., UIDAI Aadhaar for eKYC, DigiLocker, PFMS) while maintaining high scalability and performance.
• Establish technical standards, architectural principles, and best practices for the platform, ensuring a modular, microservices-based design that supports a large number of concurrent users and transactions.
• Lead technical decision-making for platform evolution – e.g., AI-driven career mapping, credentialing, and labour-market intelligence – aligned to SIDH strategy.
• Architect end-to-end solutions across web/mobile front-ends, middleware, and backends, optimizing for security, maintainability, and interoperability.
• Design data architecture for real-time analytics, reporting, and evidence-based decision making across schemes.
• Ensure compliance with security/privacy/interoperability (IT Act, DPDP, standards).
• Mentor vendor teams via design reviews and coding/performance/security standards.
• Align infra/network/security designs with the Cloud & Infra and Security leads.

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.