ABOUT RISHIHOOD UNIVERSITY Rishihood is India's first national transformation university. Our transformative education is built on three pillars:

- Professional Impact – building real-world skills through industry-integrated, practice-based learning.
- Public Impact – fostering interdisciplinary thinking and a commitment to nation-building.

POSITION | Chief Technology Officer
Rishihood University is looking for a CTO to create a technology layer that connects the university's people, processes, and knowledge.
The CTO will map these relationships and build a connected digital environment through which people can communicate, collaborate, access information and move work forward.
The ambition is to develop a distinctive institutional technology ecosystem that reflects how Rishihood works and enables how it wants to grow. This role requires a systems thinker with strong technical depth, product judgment and the ability to lead implementation.
Design the university's technology layer

Understand how work moves through the university, including decisions, approvals, communication and service requests.
Define the architecture that connects people, workflows, applications, and institutional data.
Create a phased technology roadmap aligned with Rishihood's institutional priorities.
Design explicit digital communication pathways within and across departments, and between the university and its stakeholders.
Work with departments to simplify processes before translating them into digital workflows.
Build a connected digital ecosystem





Lead the evolution of RishiVerse and its integration with other university platforms.
Establish common identity, access, data and integration standards across systems.
Enable information to move securely between functions, reducing repeated data entry and fragmented records.
Build, lead and mentor the technology team, working closely with IT, design and departmental teams.
Establish standards for development, testing, documentation, deployment and system monitoring.
Manage technology partners and vendors against clear delivery expectations.
Strengthen institutional intelligence

Establish trusted data foundations and shared definitions across departments.
Develop dashboards and reporting that help teams and leadership understand performance, dependencies and unresolved issues.
Identify opportunities for automation and AI to improve coordination, service delivery and decision-making.
Coordinate with IT to ensure dependable infrastructure and continuity of critical services.
Lead adoption through stakeholder participation, training and ongoing feedback.
Measure success through improvements in communication, turnaround time, data quality, usability and stakeholder experience.
Institutional technology blueprint — within 90 days




Complete a stakeholder and workflow map across academic and administrative departments, assess existing systems, and deliver an approved architecture and phased roadmap. The blueprint should identify system ownership, integration requirements, priority workflows, and baseline performance measures.
Deliver the first phase of the connected technology layer, building on RishiVerse and integrating relevant existing systems. Establish dashboards to track usage, pending actions, service performance, and user feedback.
The specific workflows and measurement definitions will be agreed during the first 90 days, with department heads accountable for process ownership and adoption, and the CTO accountable for technology delivery.
Typically 10–15 years of experience in technology architecture, software engineering or digital transformation, including leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience building connected systems across multiple departments and stakeholder groups.
Strong grounding in application architecture, databases, APIs, integrations, cloud infrastructure and security.
Ability to understand organizational processes and translate them into coherent technology solutions.
Product and user-experience judgment, with an emphasis on making systems usable for diverse users.
Experience leading engineering teams, managing vendors and making technology investment decisions.
Experience in higher education or another complex service organization is desirable.

📌 Head of Technology Deployment (Sonipat)
🏢 Rishihood University
📍 Sonipat