Job Description:
Position: Assistant Director – Technology & Digital Transformation, IFMR Centres
Reporting to: President, IFMR
Work Location: Chennai

IFMR is looking to appoint a Senior Technology Leader to provide technology leadership, governance and digital transformation support across its research and knowledge centres, including LEAD, J-PAL and other affiliated centres.
The role involves working with Centre Heads, senior leadership and functional teams to ensure that technology is secure, well-governed, scalable, cost-effective and aligned with the objectives of the institution and individual centres.
The ideal candidate will establish and maintain a common technology governance framework across the centres, while considering their different operating models, technology environments and requirements.
This is a Technology Leadership and transformation role, rather than a conventional IT operations or support role.

Key Responsibilities
1. IT Governance, Maturity & Policy
• Assess the technology maturity of each centre across infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, data,



processes and governance.
• Assess each centre against the IFMR Master IT Policy, identify gaps and risks, and develop prioritised remediation plans.
• Develop and maintain centre-specific IT Policy Addendums where business requirements require deviations from the master policy.
• Establish technology governance, reporting and review mechanisms across centres.

2. Cybersecurity & Technology Risk
• Provide oversight of cybersecurity and information security across the centres.
• Assess and strengthen network, endpoint, identity, cloud, application and data security.
• Establish practices for vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident response, backup and recovery, and business continuity.
• Maintain a technology and cybersecurity risk register and track remediation of significant risks.
• Periodically review the security posture of critical technology vendors and service provi

📌 Assistant Director – Technology (Chennai)
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