Position: Senior Associate, AI and Digital Transformation (DPI and Digital Governance)

Team: AI and Digital Transformation

Level and grade: L3 Senior Associate

Position type: Full time, permanent

Location: Delhi, with regular travel to NRLM states

Reports to: Senior Manager, AI and Digital Transformation (Rural Economy and Development)

Travel: 25 to 30 percent

About Us

APLYD helps governments, multilateral institutions, development finance institutions and foundations use AI in public systems. Most public-sector AI stops at the pilot. Our work is getting it into everyday service delivery and keeping it running once we leave.

Athena Infonomics has done this work for years. In 2026 we set it up as its own company. We cover strategy and readiness, field data and last-mile reach, design and build, evaluation and audit, and scale and production.

440+ engagements

240+ global clients
85+ specialists
7 countries
5 continents

The Role

You own data governance and consent on a national rural platform holding records for millions of self-help group members.



The work is to make the platform's handling of personal data defensible: what is collected, on what basis, who can see it, how long it is kept, and what a member is actually told and asked.

Core Job Responsibilities

Map the data the platform holds and the purposes it is used for, and write that down in a form the department can maintain.
Design the consent approach: what a member is told, in what language, at what moment, and what happens when consent is refused or withdrawn.
Write the data governance artefacts the platform needs: access control model, retention and deletion rules, sharing agreements with other departments, and lineage records that hold up in an audit.
Work through the applicable law and policy, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and translate it into requirements the engineers can build to rather than a memo nobody reads.
Test the consent flow in the field with members and co

📌 Senior Associate, AI and Digital Transformation (India)
🏢 Athena Infonomics
📍 India