Position: Lead, Digital Public Infrastructure, ICDIA Programme

Team: AI and Digital Transformation

Level and grade: L6 Associate Director

Position type: Full time, permanent

Location: Bengaluru, India. Remote only in rare exceptions.

Reports to: Team Lead, ICDIA Programme

Travel: 25 percent, primarily domestic

Mandate: Technical sign-off on transferability and digital public goods readiness

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 the supply side.



India has around thirty solutions on the Digital Public Goods Alliance registry by origin country, stewarded largely by foundations, academic institutions and multilateral bodies. There is significant headroom for government-stewarded solutions, and that is where ICDIA has a role to play.

Getting there is technical work rather than administrative work. Public digital systems everywhere are built, procured and licensed for domestic delivery first, and preparing them for open stewardship takes deliberate engineering and licensing effort. You run the pipeline that takes a candidate solution from a transferability judgement, through strengthening against the digital public goods standard, to registration and sustained stewardship.

Core Job Responsibilities

Judge transferability. Apply the framework across India's platform portfolio. Separate the transferable core, meaning the protocol, reference application, data schema and API specification, from India-specific dependencies s

📌 Lead, Digital Public Infrastructure, ICDIA Programme (Bengaluru)
🏢 Athena Infonomics
📍 Bengaluru