Position - Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
UIDAI Technology Centre, Bengaluru
Location: Bengaluru (In office)
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

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