Job Description

Chief Information & Technology Officer (CITO) — IILM Greater Noida

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Location: Greater Noida

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Reporting to: Vice Chancellor

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Employment: Full-time

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About IILM

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IILM Group of Institutions is a multi-campus private higher education group with over

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three decades of legacy in management, law, engineering, design and liberal-arts

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education, operating through IILM University and its constituent institutes across

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Gurugram, Greater Noida, Delhi, Jaipur and Lucknow. As the Group scales its

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academic footprint, pursues university status across campuses, and competes for

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students and faculty in an increasingly digital-first higher-education market, it is

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creating a CITO role for its largest campus at Greater Noida, where the mandate is

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to build a modern, secure and unified technology backbone from the ground up.

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The Role

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The CITO will be the single executive owner of technology strategy, infrastructure,

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digital experience, academic technology, institutional data and cybersecurity across

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the campus. This is fundamentally a builder’s mandate: The successful candidate

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will spend the first 12 months establishing foundational systems and governance

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before layering on advanced digital and AI capability. The role carries full P&L;

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accountability for the IT budget and rationalize the multiple technology investments

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into one coherent, scalable platform.

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Key Responsibilities

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• Technology strategy & roadmap: Author and own a 3–5 year campus IT

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roadmap aligned to academic growth, NEP 2020 and UGC/AICTE digital-

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infrastructure expectations; present progress to the Vice Chancellor’s office and

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Board.

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• Core infrastructure & ERP/SIS: Lead selection and roll-out of a unified, cloud-

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first Student Information System / ERP, network and campus infrastructure

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standardisation,



and data-centre/cloud consolidation

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• Digital student & faculty experience: Build a phased, IILM-wide digital campus

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experience (admissions, LMS, portals, mobile access) for Greater Noida with

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responsibility for developing standards/platforms capable of subsequently being

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adopted across the IILM Group —IILM’s own version of a unified “campus app”

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— sequenced to available budget and infrastructure maturity.

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• Data, analytics & AI: Stand up a data warehouse and reporting layer; introduce

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governed, practical AI use cases for admissions, student support, faculty

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productivity and administration, starting with high-ROI pilots moved to

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production.

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• Cybersecurity, risk & compliance: Modernize the university-wide information-

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security programme (identity management, data protection, incident response)

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meeting India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and

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UGC/regulatory requirements.

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• Budget, vendor & team leadership: Own the IT budget; negotiate and

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rationalise vendor and cloud contracts; build, mentor and retain a lean, capable

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IT team.

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• Stakeholder & change leadership: Work closely with Deans Registrar, the

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CFO and the existing Digital function to drive adoption across academic and

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administrative stakeholders

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Requirements — Must-Have

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• 15+ years in progressively senior IT leadership roles, including at least 5 years

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as CIO / CTO / Head of IT (or in a role of equivalent scope) with full budget and

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team ownership.





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• Demonstrated experience standing up or substantially modernising IT

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infrastructure/ERP in— education, healthcare, BFSI, logistics or a comparable

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service-sectors

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• A clear, verifiable, flagship digital-transformation project led end-to-end, with

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measurable business or institutional outcomes

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• Direct experience owning or building an information-security and data-

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governance programme

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• Is a hands-on person, not a manager only, without a technical point of view

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• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering; a Master’s degree

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(MBA, MTech or equivalent) is required

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Valuable-to-Have

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• Prior exposure to the higher-education, ed-tech, or NEP 2020 regulatory

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environment in India.

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• Hands-on (not merely pilot-stage) experience deploying applied/generative AI in

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an enterprise setting.

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• Experience building a technology function from a relatively lean starting base,

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rather than only managing an already-mature enterprise stack.

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• External recognition (industry awards, board/fellowship positions, published

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thought leadership) evidencing standing in the CIO/CTO community.

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What IILM Offers

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• A green-field mandate to build (not just run) a university technology function from

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the ground up.

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• Direct visibility and reporting line to the Vice Chancellor and Board.

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• A competitive, benchmarked compensation package plus performance-linked

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bonus.

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• The opportunity to shape the digital future of a growing university

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How to Apply

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Interested candidates should share their CV along with a short note (300–500 words)

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describing one technology transformation they led end-to-end and its measurable

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outcome, to [email protected] / apply via this posting.

📌 Chief Information Technology Officer (Noida)
🏢 IILM University, Greater Noida
📍 Noida