Job Description
Position - Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
nUIDAI Technology Centre, Bengaluru
nLocation: Bengaluru (In office)
nExperience: 20+ years
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n₹ Compensation: ₹1 Crore per annum (negotiable, based on profile)
nReporting to: DDG, Technology Centre
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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.
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nStrategic Engineering Mandate & Goals
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nTechnology Stack Governance & Modernisation
n• Own the full lifecycle of the stack: software, enterprise hardware, cloud-native infrastructure and domain-specific hardware
n• Set enterprise architecture standards, assess technical debt and lead modernisation of mission-critical platforms
n• 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;
n• Build and govern multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with organisational goals
n• Lead R&D; in partnership with premier academic, research and industry institutions
n• 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
n• Build a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that gives teams deployment speed on par with the hyperscalers
n• Automate provisioning, orchestration and CI/CD pipelines
n• Improve developer experience and productivity, and replace manual, ticket-driven workflows
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nEnterprise AI & Intelligent Automation
n• Lead an AI-first strategy across fraud management, observability, infrastructure and developer tooling
n• Put intelligent

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