About the Company i-TEK is one of India’s leading AIDC and RFID technology organizations with a strong focus on next-generation products, platforms, intelligent edge ecosystems, and embedded device engineering.

With

- Over 5 billion items tagged
- 1,000+ enterprise customers
- 250+ million scans processed daily
- Presence across 3,000+ retail outlets
- Coverage across 10+ million sq. ft. of warehouse space

i-TEK has established itself as a market leader across retail, logistics, manufacturing, and banking sectors. As part of our next phase of growth, we are significantly expanding our focus on:
- RFID and AIDC platforms
- Embedded and edge device ecosystems
- Enterprise SaaS solutions
- Intelligent automation, AI, and analytics
- Global platform-led expansion

We are now looking for a world-class engineering leader to help build globally scalable products and platforms that define the future of RFID, AIDC, and intelligent enterprise ecosystems.

Head of Engineering

Location: Pune [in office]

Experience : 18–22 years of strong engineering leadership experience in enterprise products, SaaS platforms, scalable technology systems, embedded ecosystems, and product engineering organizations.

About the Role The Head of Engineering will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping i-TEK’s product engineering vision, architecture, engineering culture, and technology execution.

This role is responsible for building highly scalable, extensible, configurable, secure, and cloud-native platforms that can support multiple vertical use cases across retail, manufacturing, logistics, banking, and emerging sectors.

The ideal candidate will combine:

- Deep technical expertise
- Strong platform engineering experience
- Product engineering mindset
- Modern SaaS engineering practices
- Strong architecture and scalability orientation
- Leadership capability to build high-performance engineering teams





This role requires a leader who can operate at both strategic and hands-on levels while mentoring teams toward engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end engineering for i-TEK’s software platforms, embedded systems, and intelligent edge ecosystems.
- Drive the evolution of Garuda Vigil into a globally scalable enterprise-grade RFID and AIDC platform.
- Lead the engineering evolution of Skanixa as a configurable and scalable embedded edgeware ecosystem.
- Ensure platforms are configurable, extensible, multi-tenant, secure, API-first, cloud-native, and highly scalable.
- Build engineering systems supporting both SaaS deployments and dedicated enterprise/on-premise deployments.
- Build platforms capable of rapid prototyping, agile rollout, and faster adaptability to changing market and customer requirements.
- Define and govern overall platform architecture and engineering standards.
- Ensure abstraction of requirements into reusable horizontal platform capabilities.
- Build platforms that enable rapid development of industry-specific use cases.
- Drive modern engineering practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, infrastructure automation, release orchestration, and evergreen architecture.
- Establish strong release management and roadmap governance processes.
- Work closely with product management and hardware/device engineering teams to build configurable and scalable embedded and edge device ecosystems.
- Ensure interoperability across RFID and AIDC environments.
- Drive engineering quality and consistency across firmware, device management, diagnostics, and edge integrations.
- Build platforms that enable partners, system integrators,



and customers to rapidly develop applications and industry-specific use cases.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Delivery, Customer Success, and Business teams.
- Build and mentor high-performance engineering teams across architecture, software engineering, embedded systems, QA, DevOps, security, scrum management, and platform operations.
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Drive patent creation, technical innovation, and engineering differentiation.
- Represent i-TEK in technology forums, customer discussions, and industry engagements.
- Strong preference for experience in retail technology, supply chain platforms, IoT, edge platforms, enterprise automation ecosystems, or adjacent technology domains.

Required Skills

Technical Expertise

- Cloud-native architectures
- Distributed systems
- SaaS engineering
- Multi-tenant platforms
- API platforms and integrations
- Event-driven architectures
- Security engineering
- Performance and scalability engineering
- DevSecOps and CI/CD
- Observability and reliability engineering
- Data platforms and analytics ecosystems
- AI/ML readiness and intelligent platform design
- Embedded systems and edge computing ecosystems
- Firmware lifecycle and device management systems

Leadership Attributes

- Strong systems thinking and clarity of thought
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to operate strategically while remaining technically credible
- High ownership orientation
- Strong mentoring and people leadership capability
- Passion for engineering excellence and innovation

Preferred Skills

- Experience in retail technology
- Experience in supply chain platforms
- Experience in IoT and edge platforms
- Experience in enterprise automation ecosystems
- Experience in adjacent technology domains related to RFID, AIDC, and intelligent platforms

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