The Chief Architect oversees the end-to-end technical architecture of the UIDAI, setting the technology vision, establishing standards, and guiding teams to build secure, reliable, and cost-efficient platforms at a national scale. This role steers enterprise, application, data, and security architectures; ensures architectural runway for product/mission goals; and leads cross-functional engineering decisions (build/buy, patterns, and roadmap trade-offs). The Chief Architect ensures this foundation is secure, scalable, and sustainable—enabling innovation while upholding trust and compliance.

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nAbout the Role

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nThe Chief Architect oversees the end-to-end technical architecture of the UIDAI, setting the technology vision, establishing standards, and guiding teams to build secure, reliable, and cost-efficient platforms at a national scale.

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nResponsibilities

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- Architecture Vision & Roadmap
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- Define a 3–5 year architecture strategy aligned to UIDAI's mission statement and goals set out by the Authority;
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- Publish a living reference architecture and target state.
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- Maintain an architecture runway that de-risks next 2–3 quarters of delivery.
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- Enterprise & Platform Architecture
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- Standardize patterns for microservices, APIs, eventing, workflow, and data pipelines.
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- Drive multi-DC / multi-region resiliency (active-active/active-passive), capacity planning, disaster recovery RTO/RPO.
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- Establish golden paths (service templates, libraries, infra modules) to accelerate teams.
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- Application & Integration Architecture
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- Own API standards, event schemas, and backward compatibility.
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- Promote efficient designs for high-throughput transfers; codify performance SLOs per journey.
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- Data & AI Architecture
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- Define data mesh/lakehouse principles, governance, lineage, and privacy controls.
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- Standardize streaming (e.g., Kafka/Flink) and OLAP/observability stores; enable ML feature stores and online/offline parity.
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- Security, Privacy & Compliance by Design
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- Enforce secure coding, SBOM/SCA, secrets & key management, HSM/PKI usage, and privacy-preserving patterns (tokenization/SD-JWT VC where applicable).
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- Embed threat modeling in design reviews; ensure regulatory compliance and auditability.
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- DevEx & DevSecOps
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- Institutionalise CI/CD, GitOps, IaC, progressive delivery, and automated quality gates.
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- Champion observability standards (OTEL traces/logs/metrics), SLOs, and incident learning loops.
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- Architecture Governance
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- Chair the Architecture Review Board (ARB); run lightweight RFC process; track decision records (ADRs).
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- Measure and reduce tech debt; manage vendor/OSS risk and cost.
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- Leadership & Stakeholder Management
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- Mentor Staff/Principal engineers, and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality.
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- Partner with Product, Security, Operations, Legal/Policy, and external ecosystems/standards bodies.
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- Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles, goals and strategy within the scope of responsibility.
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- Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes.
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nMust have leading experience in large scale functional environment like Bank, Pharma, Telecom, Fintech, e-Commerce etc..

nShould have multidiscipline experience in Backend, Data/AI, Security etc

nCurrent role should be Chief/Senior/Principal Architect.

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nQualifications

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- 15+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in architecture leadership.
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- Proven experience leading architectures serving 10M+ users and petabyte-scale data systems.
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nRequired Skills

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- Quick & Excellent Problem Solving skills for complex & large-scale problems.
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- Technical Breadth – Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies.
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- Very Robust System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.
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- Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve coding standards across large code bases.
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- Good knowledge, understanding &

experience of working with a large variety of multitier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions.

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- Good understanding &

experience of high-performance web-scale & real-time response systems.

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- Experience & exposure to a variety of large-scale persistent systems, including large databases.
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- Exposure to complete product development cycles – From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures - the Architects should have seen it all. Should have been part of scalable product development cycles.
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- Excellent Mentoring skills – Be the technical mentor to the team.
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- Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments – where boundaries aren’t clearly defined.
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- Previous Distinguished/chief architect or senior tech leadership experience in tech-focused firms.
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- Familiarity with data analytics, AI/ML, and DevOps practices.
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- Strong technical foundation in software architecture and full-stack.
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nPreferred Skills

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- Previous Distinguished/chief architect or senior tech leadership experience in tech-focused firms.
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nPay range and compensation package

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n80 - 100 LPA

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📌 Chief Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
📍 Bengaluru