Job DescriptionPosition - Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

NUIDAI Technology Centre, Bengaluru

NLocation: Bengaluru (On-site)

NExperience: 20+ years

N₹ Compensation: ₹1 Crore per annum (negotiable, based on profile)

NReporting to: DDG, Technology Centre

NABOUT THE ROLE

nUIDAI is looking for a visionary Chief Technology Officer to own one of the world's largest digital identity platforms. As CTO, you will own the technology stack, the platform engineering vision and the long-term architecture roadmap. You will lead modernisation, set enterprise standards, build an AI-first way of working, put zero-trust security in place, and keep every platform service running at five-nines availability.

NStrategic Engineering Mandate & Goals

NTechnology Stack Governance & Modernisation

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- Own the full lifecycle of the stack: software, enterprise hardware, cloud-native infrastructure and domain-specific hardware
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- Set enterprise architecture standards, assess technical debt and lead modernisation of mission-critical platforms
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- Standardise frameworks,runtimes, databases and middleware so systems work together, avoid vendor lock-in and stay agile
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nStrategic Roadmap & R&D;

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- Build and govern multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with organisational goals
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- Lead R&D; in partnershipwith premier academic, research and industry institutions
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- Sponsor and direct proofs-of-concept (POCs) on next-generation architectures, to lower the risk of production rollouts
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nPlatform Engineering & Developer Velocity

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- Build a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that gives teams deployment speed on par with the hyperscalers
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- Automate provisioning, orchestration and CI/CD pipelines
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- Improve developer experience and productivity, and replace manual, ticket-driven workflows
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nEnterprise AI & Intelligent Automation

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- Lead an AI-first strategy across fraud management, observability, infrastructure and developer tooling
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- Put intelligent automation to work for anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, incident triage and reducing routine operational work
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- Make AI-first thinking the default design principle for new capabilities
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nObservability & Operational Resilience (99.999%)

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- Design full-stacktelemetry (metrics, logs, traces, synthetic testing) to cut detection and resolution times (MTTD/MTTR)
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- Build SRE practices, error-budget governance and resilience testing into how teams work
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- Be the senior escalation point during critical outages and capacity issues
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nSecurity, Compliance & Data Governance

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- Build zero-trust security and data protection into the whole SDLC
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- Enforce data residency,audit and regulatory compliance without slowing engineering down
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- Hold final technical sign-off on platform architecture, data platforms and security baselines
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nOperational Governance

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- Advise on build vs.



outsource vs. hybrid delivery models, including vendor evaluation and contract deliverables
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- Lead talent strategy: team structure, hiring and performance management across systems, software, security and domain architects
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- Act as the executive escalation point for cross-functional blockers
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nWHAT WE'RE LOOKINGFOR

NEducation

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- Essential: BE / MS / M.Tech / ME in Computer Science, IT, Electronics or an allied discipline from a premier institution
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- Desirable: PhD in a relevant engineering discipline
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nExperience & Competencies

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- 20+ years of progressive experience in IT and software engineering, including executive technology leadership roles
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- A track record of setting multi-year roadmaps and delivering large-scale platform modernisation
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- Deep expertise in high-concurrency developer platforms, cloud-native control planes, modern data backbones and SRE programs at consumer scale or in mission-critical settings
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- Hands-on experience building an AI-first engineering culture and embedding ML into core platform operations
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- Robust knowledge of global best practices in software, hardware and cybersecurity
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- Added advantage: experience with high-security hardware, identity architectures or biometric technologies
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nWHY JOIN?

nShape the technology behind a digital identity platform that serves over a billion people, and lead innovation at national scale.

NHOW TO APPLY

nApply through LinkedIn or send your CV to [email protected] with the subject line "Application – CTO, UIDAI Bengaluru".

📌 Hiring: Chief Technology Officer (Karnataka)
🏢 Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
📍 Karnataka