Job Description
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 tr

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