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.

About the Role

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-productive platforms at a national scale.

Responsibilities
- Architecture Vision & Roadmap
- Define a 3–5 year architecture strategy aligned to UIDAI's mission statement and goals set out by the Authority;
- Publish a living reference architecture and target state.




- Maintain an architecture runway that de-risks next 2–3 quarters of delivery.
- Enterprise & Platform Architecture
- Standardize patterns for microservices, APIs, eventing, workflow, and data pipelines.
- Drive multi-DC / multi-region resiliency (active-active/active-passive), capacity planning, disaster recovery RTO/RPO.
- Establish golden paths (service templates, libraries, infra modules) to accelerate teams.
- Application & Integration Architecture
- Own API standards, event schemas, and backward compatibility.
- Promote efficient designs for high-throughput transfers;
codify performance SLOsper journey.
- Data & AI Architecture
- Define data mesh/lakehouse principles, governance, lineage, and privacy controls.
- Standardize streaming (e.G., Kafka/Flink) and OLAP/observability stores;
enable ML feature stores and online/offline parity.
- Security, Privacy & Compliance by Design
- Enforce secure coding, SBOM/SCA

📌 Head of Enterprise Architecture (Bengaluru)
🏢 Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
📍 Bengaluru