ESIC Chief Actuary, Actuarial Specialist and More – 19 Posts Recruitment 2026

Recruitment Overview

Employees' State Insurance Corporation is a statutory body established under the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948, operating under the administrative control of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, with its headquarters at Panchdeep Bhawan, C.I.G. Marg, New Delhi. In view of statutory mandates under Section 37 of the ESI Act, 1948, Section 119 of the Social Security Code, 2020, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, ESIC is strengthening its Actuarial Branch and establishing a dedicated Data & Analytics Branch.

Selection Process & Exam Pattern

Stage I — Preliminary Scrutiny and Shortlisting

ESIC Job Description 2026

• Chief Actuary / Actuarial Advisor

Lead and sign off periodic actuarial valuations of the ESI Scheme covering liabilities, assets, and funding position.

Develop long-term financial projections (25 to 75 years) incorporating demographic, economic, morbidity, and policy assumptions.

Design and oversee stress testing, scenario analysis, and sensitivity testing to assess scheme resilience.

Advise ESIC on contribution rate adequacy, benefit structures, wage ceiling revisions, and scheme expansion proposals.

Review, validate, and technically approve actuarial models and reports prepared by empanelled actuarial firms.

Provide expert actuarial inputs for audit observations, parliamentary matters, court cases, and policy consultations.

Guide adoption, calibration, and interpretation of ILO-Pension and ILO-Health models.

Establish actuarial standards, documentation protocols, and institutional knowledge systems within ESIC.

Senior Actuarial Specialist — Valuation & Projections

Develop, calibrate, and maintain actuarial valuation models for the ESI Scheme.

Execute long-term cash-flow and balance-sheet projections.

Conduct experience investigations and assumption analysis.

Perform stress testing and sensitivity analysis.

Peer review actuarial outputs prepared internally and by empanelled firms.

Prepare technical documentation, assumption papers, and valuation reports.

Senior Actuarial Specialist — Policy & Scheme Design

Conduct actuarial impact analysis of policy changes.

Model effects of wage ceiling changes, coverage expansion, and benefit redesign.

Support preparation of policy notes, cabinet references, and inter-ministerial consultations.

Develop simplified actuarial tools for rapid policy simulations.

Prepare datasets, assumption tables, and projection runs.

Support experience studies and documentation.

Assist in preparation of valuation reports.

Statistical / Research Officer (Actuarial Support)

Conduct experience studies on claims, utilisation, wages, and demographics.

Perform statistical validation of datasets.

Develop statistical summaries and trend analysis.

Support research and technical documentation.

Conceptualise, design, and implement the end-to-end data lifecycle for ESIC, covering capture, validation, storage, transformation, analytics, dissemination, and archival.

Frame enterprise-level data architecture, analytical frameworks, and technology-agnostic design standards.

Ensure availability of accurate, complete, consistent, and timely datasets for actuarial valuation, financial projections, policy analysis, and management reporting.

Oversee and ensure effective implementation of data governance policies, standards, metadata frameworks, and authoritative dataset certification.

Supervise the Data Governance Officer, Data Engineering Officer, Data Analytics Officer, Data Protection Officer, and attached Technical Officers.

Allocate work, review outputs, and ensure accountability of all contractual technical officers in DAB.

Coordinate with ICT Division for implementation of data architectures, pipelines, platforms, security backups, and disaster recovery mechanisms.

Ensure compliance with approved governance, privacy, and security frameworks.

Support the Actuarial Division with timely provision of valuation-ready and projection-ready datasets and resolve queries.

Provide technical inputs for agenda items, notes, and proposals for the Standing Committee, ESI Corporation, and other statutory bodies.

Assist in replies to Parliamentary Questions, CAG audit paras, internal audit observations, court cases, and RTI applications.

Guide development of standard analytical reports, dashboards, and management information systems for senior management.

Ensure proper documentation of data models, pipelines, analytical methodologies, assumptions, and limitations.

Monitor data quality metrics, analytics performance indicators, and compliance parameters continuously.

Identify capacity gaps and recommend training, skill development, and system improvements.

Advise senior management on emerging data, analytics, and evidence-based decision-making practices in social security administration.

Ensure institutionalisation of data processes so that systems remain sustainable beyond individual tenures.

Submit periodic technical and performance reports to the Insurance Commissioner (D&A) and Director General, ESIC.

Perform any other duty entrusted by the Director General or Insurance Commissioner.

Define, document, and maintain enterprise data definitions, metadata standards, and data dictionaries for all major ESIC datasets.

Identify, classify, and notify authoritative datasets for actuarial, financial, policy, and administrative use.

Frame and maintain data ownership, custodianship, and stewardship matrices for all functional domains.

Ensure uniform interpretation of data definitions across HQ, Regional Offices, Sub-Regional Offices, and field units.

Examine and vet data collection formats, instructions, and circulars issued by various branches for governance compliance.

Coordinate with functional branches for resolving definitional ambiguities, duplication, and inconsistencies in data.

Ensure version control, documentation, and archival of data standards and governance manuals.

Certify datasets as governance-compliant prior to use in actuarial valuation, analytics, or external reporting.

Assist in replies to audit objections, CAG observations, Parliamentary Questions, RTIs, and court matters.

Supervise and allocate work to the Technical Officer attached for data quality and metadata management.

Maintain liaison with ICT Division for implementation of governance rules in IT systems.

Submit periodic reports on data governance status to the CDAO.

Perform any other duty entrusted by the CDAO or competent authority.

Data Engineering Officer (Data Engineering & Platforms)

Design enterprise-level logical and physical data models aligned with ESIC's operational IT systems.

Plan, develop, and maintain ETL / ELT pipelines for extraction of data from multiple source systems.

Integrate datasets from disparate systems, regions, and time periods into coherent analytical datasets.

Design and maintain data warehouses, data marts, and analytical layers.

Ensure data pipelines are automated, auditable, documented, and reproducible.

Implement data validation, reconciliation, and error-handling mechanisms in pipelines.

Coordinate with ICT Division for deployment, performance tuning, backup, and disaster recovery.

Ensure adherence to data governance and privacy standards in all engineering processes.

Support actuarial valuation exercises by providing timely, structured datasets.

Supervise, guide, and allocate work to the three Data Engineers reporting to him/her.

Maintain technical documentation of pipelines, schemas, and transformations.

Assist in technical explanations to auditors, CAG, and Parliamentary Committees when required.

Submit periodic progress and performance reports to the CDAO.

Perform any other duty entrusted by competent authority.

Data Analytics Officer (Analytics & Reporting)

Design and develop standard analytical reports and dashboards for ESIC management.

Prepare actuarial-ready datasets and analytical summaries for actuarial valuation and projections.

Conduct descriptive, diagnostic, and trend analysis of ESIC data.

Support preparation of replies to Parliamentary Questions, audit paras, court cases, and policy notes.

Ensure analytical outputs are consistent with approved data definitions and governance standards.

Document assumptions and limitations of analytical outputs.

Coordinate with functional branches for understanding analytical requirements.

Supervise, guide, and allocate work to the three Data Analysts / Statistical Officers reporting to him/her.

Ensure quality control and peer review of analytical outputs, and assist senior management with data-driven briefs.

Submit periodic analytical reports to the CDAO and perform other duties entrusted by competent authority.

Design role-based access control frameworks for datasets.

Define anonymisation and pseudonymisation protocols.

Maintain audit trails of data access and usage.

Coordinate with ICT Division on security controls and breach response.

Assess privacy risks in data sharing and analytics activities.

Support audits, inspections, and compliance reviews.

Supervise the Technical Officer attached for access and audit support, and submit reports to the CDAO.

Perform any other duty entrusted by competent authority.

Technical Officer - Data Quality & Metadata

Assist in maintenance of metadata repositories and data dictionaries.

Perform data quality checks and validations.

Document data lineage and definitions.

Support dataset certification processes.

Assist in audit and governance compliance activities.

Perform any other duty entrusted by Data Governance Officer.

Extract, transform, and load datasets.

Perform reconciliation and validation checks.

Maintain pipeline logs and documentation.

Support platform performance and troubleshooting.

Perform any other duty entrusted.

Technical Officer (Data Analyst / Statistical Officer)

Prepare analytical datasets and reports.

Perform statistical analysis and trend studies.

Support actuarial analysis.

Document analytical methodologies.

Perform any other duty entrusted.

Technical Officer — Data Privacy & Access

Implement access control policies.

Maintain access logs and audit trails.

Support compliance audits.

Assist in privacy impact assessments.

Perform any other duty entrusted.