NeGD is currently inviting applications for the position of Vice President – AI/ML on a contractual basis.

Responsibilities

Programme Leadership & Strategy

• Set the vision, strategy, and delivery roadmap for AI/ML services across Digital India platforms and cross-ministerial systems
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the programme’s portfolio of AI use cases across the capability teams, ensuring timely, high-quality, and measurable outcomes
• Establish and run programme governance — planning, prioritisation, risk management, and delivery reporting — and present progress and outcomes to NeGD leadership
• Own the programme budget and cost governance, ensuring efficient use of compute, infrastructure, and manpower against the approved envelope

Technical & Architectural Direction

• Own the AI/ML technical strategy and target-state architecture across capability teams — Document Intelligence; Conversational & Multilingual AI; Predictive Analytics; Visual AI & Identity Verification; Agentic AI & Workflow Automation; and Fraud & Anomaly Detection
• Set standards for model selection and build-versus-buy decisions, including the use of open-source and sovereign models, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompting
• Act as the design authority for the programme, approving reference architectures, integration standards, evaluation frameworks, and inference and deployment patterns
• Ensure reusable AI components — APIs, SDKs, model cards, and templates — are produced to a common standard and published for cross-ministry reuse

Organisation & Delivery

• Mentor the AI teams and the capability-pod leadership, scaling the organisation in line with validated demand
• Direct and coordinate the programme’s functional and technical resources as a single, integrated delivery organisation
• Establish the operating model, engineering standards, and delivery culture for a fast-growing national AI capability
• Establish MLOps/LLMOps practices — model lifecycle management, evaluation, monitoring for drift and quality, and reliable, cost-effective inference at production scale

Empanelment, Procurement & Partnerships

• Govern the engagement of empanelled agencies at the discovered L1 rate card across resource, project, and turnkey modes — including agency selection, performance management, acceptance, and service levels
• Manage relationships with technology, model, and infrastructure providers, including commercial terms, performance, and risk

Governance, Security & Responsible AI

• Ensure all AI systems are delivered in line with the Responsible AI framework — risk assessment, human oversight, explainability, evaluation, and audit
• Ensure security and data protection by design across the programme, in line with MeitY security standards, CERT-In directions, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
• Ensure the appropriate use of sovereign infrastructure and coordinate with other MeitY agencies where relevant

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.