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Job DescriptionPosition - Chief Technology Officer (CTO) UIDAI Technology Centre, Bengaluru Location: Bengaluru (On-site) Experience: 20+ years ₹ Compensation: ₹1 Crore per annum (negotiable, based on profile) Reporting to: DDG, Technology Centre ABOUT THE ROLE UIDAI 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. Strategic Engineering Mandate & Goals Technology Stack Governance & Modernisation - Own the full lifecycle of the stack: software, enterprise hardware, cloud-native infrastructure and domain-specific hardware - Set enterprise architecture standards, assess technical debt and lead modernisation of mission-critical platforms - Standardise frameworks, runtimes, databases and middleware so systems work together, avoid vendor lock-in and stay agile Strategic Roadmap & R&D; - Build and govern multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with organisational goals - Lead R&D; in partnership with premier academic, research and industry institutions - Sponsor and direct proofs-of-concept (POCs) on next-generation architectures, to lower the risk of production rollouts Platform Engineering & Developer Velocity - Build a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP)



that gives teams deployment speed on par with the hyperscalers - Automate provisioning, orchestration and CI/CD pipelines - Improve developer experience and productivity, and replace manual, ticket-driven workflows Enterprise AI & Intelligent Automation - Lead an AI-first strategy across fraud management, observability, infrastructure and developer tooling - Put intelligent automation to work for anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, incident triage and reducing routine operational work - Make AI-first thinking the default design principle for current capabilities Observability & Operational Resilience (99.999%) - Design full-stack telemetry (metrics, logs, traces, synthetic testing) to cut detection and resolution times (MTTD/MTTR) - Build SRE practices, error-budget governance and resilience testing into how teams work - Be the senior escalation point during critical outages and capacity issues Security, Compliance & Data Governance - Build zero-trust security and data protection into the whole SDLC - Enforce data residency, audit and regulatory compliance without slowing engineering down - Hold final technical sign-off on platform architecture,



data platforms and security baselines Operational Governance - Advise on build vs. outsource vs. hybrid delivery models, including vendor evaluation and contract deliverables - Lead talent strategy: team structure, hiring and performance management across systems, software, security and domain architects - Act as the executive escalation point for cross-functional blockers WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Education - Essential: BE / MS / M.Tech / ME in Computer Science, IT, Electronics or an allied discipline from a premier institution - Desirable: PhD in a relevant engineering discipline Experience & Competencies - 20+ years of progressive experience in IT and software engineering, including executive technology leadership roles - A track record of setting multi-year roadmaps and delivering large-scale platform modernisation - 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 - Hands-on experience building an AI-first engineering culture and embedding ML into core platform operations - Strong knowledge of global best practices in software, hardware and cybersecurity - Added advantage: experience with high-security hardware, identity architectures or biometric technologies WHY JOIN? Shape the technology behind a digital identity platform that serves over a billion people, and lead innovation at national scale. HOW TO APPLY Apply through LinkedIn or send your CV to with the subject line "Application – CTO, UIDAI Bengaluru".

📌 Chief Technology Officer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Unique Identification Authority of India
📍 Bengaluru