Engagement: Secondment to Government of Odisha, Housing & Urban Development Department (H&UDD;) Duration: 12 months, extendable by a second year by mutual consent Reports to: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), H&UDD; (functional) Employer: Partner organization Do you want to be the technical anchor for one of India's leading state-level urban Digital Public Infrastructure programmes? We are seeking an experienced solution architect and technical advisor to strengthen SUJOG and related systems as a unified DPI for urban governance in Odisha. If this is you, we'd love for you to join us. Your work will shape how cities across Odisha deliver services to over a billion citizens. The Context and the Mission Urban governance in Odisha is undergoing a significant digital transformation through SUJOG and related platforms. As these systems scale across schemes and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), there is a growing need for strong technical stewardship to keep them robust, scalable, interoperable, and free of unnecessary fragmentation and vendor lock-in. Too often,



digital systems accumulate one-off customisations and parallel builds that increase long-term cost and complexity while diluting the value of a shared platform. This secondment exists to anchor SUJOG and other digital systems as a unified Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for urban governance in Odisha—ensuring departmental priorities are translated into trusted, reusable, standards-based digital solutions, and that secure, cost-effective digital adoption accelerates across H&UDD; and ULBs. The Role As Technical Advisor to the ACS (Urban Digital Transformation), you will be seconded by the partner organization to the Housing & Urban Development Department and positioned in the Office of the Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), H&UDD;, as part of the Digital Urban Governance Acceleration Unit. You will function as a senior technical advisor to the ACS, placing considered recommendations on architecture, platform evolution, stan

📌 Technical Advisor to ACS (Bhadrak)
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📍 Bhadrak