Lead - Health Analytics & AI Unit - Digital Health

Project Background:

Over seven years, the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) has built one of the country's largest health data repositories. The National Health Authority (NHA) manages AB PM-JAY as well as the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). The Health Analytics and AI Unit (HAAU) is the NHA's dedicated capability for advanced analytics and artificial intelligence.

Position Summary:

WJCF is looking to hire a Lead to head the Health Analytics and AI Unit (HAAU), embedded within the NHA. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who combines overall management of the unit with analytical and AI leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead the HAAU end to end, owning the unit's workplan, delivery, and relationships with NHA leadership.

- Scale the unit's diagnostic and decision-intelligence work towards predictive and prescriptive capabilities.

- Drive the use of AI to generate high-quality, AI-ready datasets.

- Get health-financing framework work moving from day one.

- Translate policy and operational questions from NHA leadership into predictive, prescriptive, and scenario-modelling problems.

- Manage and build a high-functioning technical team, including data scientists, AI/ML engineers, and subject matter experts.

- Embed privacy-by-design and strong health data governance across the unit's work, consistent with the DPDP Act 2023 and SAHI.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or master's degree in data science, statistics, computer science, public health, economics, or a closely related field.

- 10 or more years in data science, analytics, or AI, with experience leading teams and owning delivery in complex, multi-stakeholder settings.

- Demonstrated experience of managing technical teams and leading large technology transformation initiatives.

- Deep, hands-on data-science skills, including forecasting, risk stratification, anomaly detection, interpretable modelling, and applied use of large language models (LLMs) and modern AI.

- A good working understanding of AB PM-JAY and ABDM, including their data, operations, and policy context.

- Familiarity with health financing, sufficient to scope and steer framework development for the NHA.