Fractional Edge is hiring for a client, an established Indian manufacturer of automotive components with several plants and a corporate office in Delhi NCR. They want an experienced, hands-on technology leader as a Fractional CIO to stabilise and strengthen their IT foundation and set a clear direction for cloud, security and resilience.

About the role

You will be the senior technology advisor to the management team. You’ll assess the current IT workplace, close the most important infrastructure and governance gaps, and take hands-on ownership of infrastructure reliability, cybersecurity, backup and disaster recovery, and the cloud vs on-prem decision. You will work through the existing IT team and managed-service partners to get improvements done. This is a practical role focused on fixing and building, not only on strategy.

What you will do

- IT stabilisation & infrastructure: Assess infrastructure, networks, servers, data centre, cloud and plant IT. Identify critical risks and run a prioritised plan to improve availability, monitoring, incident management and SLAs.

- Cybersecurity, risk & business continuity: Assess cyber maturity and vulnerabilities. Strengthen access management (MFA, privileged access), patching and incident response. Make DR/BCP ready, with documented RTO/RPO and tested restores.

- Cloud / hybrid cost-benefit analysis: Build a 3-year TCO/CBA comparing on-prem, cloud and hybrid for key workloads, covering migration, run costs, downtime risk, security and exit costs. Recommend a roadmap.

- ERP & enterprise applications: Improve the stability of the cloud-hosted ERP, including integration,



access, backup and support interfaces.

- Data mapping & protection: Map where critical data sits across ERP, engineering/PLM, legacy systems, email, R&D; and HR systems. Cover its sensitivity, backup ownership, retention and recovery.

- Secure AI adoption: Put guardrails, access controls and monitoring in place so the business can use AI and GenAI tools safely, in line with its AI usage policy.

- IT strategy & architecture: Build a multi-year technology roadmap aligned with business strategy. Define architecture standards and find ways to simplify and modernise.

- Governance, vendors & cost: Set up IT policies, SOPs, KPIs, SLAs and a monthly steering dashboard. Review vendor contracts and performance, set a baseline for IT run costs, and quantify savings opportunities.

What we are looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or a related field
- Senior IT leadership experience (CIO / Head IT) in manufacturing, automotive, engineering or industrial settings
- Strong hands-on infrastructure and IT operations background: incident handling, data centres, cloud migrations, backups and vendor-led operations. You should be able to review configurations and challenge technical proposals.
- Proven depth in cloud architecture, cyber resilience, DR/BCP and financial cost-benefit analysis
- Experience with enterprise ERP infrastructure, cloud/on-prem integration and production support. Exposure to leading S/4HANA transformation is a strong plus.
- Comfortable dealing with management and running an IT team and partners through influence

📌 Fractional Chief Information Officer (CIO) – Auto Components Manufacturing (Gurugram)
🏢 Fractional Edge
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