Architect the technology backbone of Aadhaar - the world's largest digital identity platform, serving over 1.4 billion residents. UIDAI is hiring a Chief Architect at its Technology Centre, Bengaluru, to own the end-to-end enterprise, application, data and security architecture of a national-scale platform. Compensation: INR 80-100 LPA.

About the Role

The Chief Architect oversees the end-to-end technical architecture of the UIDAI, setting the technology vision, establishing standards, and guiding teams to build secure, reliable, and cost-effective platforms at a national scale.

Responsibilities
• Architecture Vision & Roadmap
• Define a 3–5 year architecture strategy aligned to UIDAI's mission statement and goals set out by the Authority;
• Publish a living reference architecture and target state.
• Maintain an architecture runway that de-risks next 2–3 quarters of delivery.

• Enterprise & Platform Architecture
• Standardize patterns for microservices, APIs, eventing, workflow, and data pipelines.
• Drive multi-DC / multi-region resiliency (active-active/active-passive),



capacity planning, disaster recovery RTO/RPO.
• Establish golden paths (service templates, libraries, infra modules) to accelerate teams.

• Application & Integration Architecture
• Own API standards, event schemas, and backward compatibility.
• Promote efficient designs for high-throughput transfers; codify performance SLOs per journey.

• Data & AI Architecture
• Define data mesh/lakehouse principles, governance, lineage, and privacy controls.
• Standardize streaming (e.g., Kafka/Flink) and OLAP/observability stores; enable ML feature stores and online/offline parity.

• Security, Privacy & Compliance by Design
• Enforce secure coding, SBOM/SCA, secrets & key management, HSM/PKI usage, and privacy-preserving patterns (tokenization/SD-JWT VC where applicable).
• Embed threat modeling in design reviews; ensure regulatory compliance and auditability.

• DevEx & DevSecOps
• Institutionalise CI/CD,

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