IT Head at A leading Education Institute · Kota · 8 - 15 years · ₹25L - ₹32L / yr · Posted 1 Oct 2021
• Team Lead (6-8 yrs of total experience), minimum 3 years of Team Lead exp. required
• Knowledge of full technology stack and experience of leading a team
• Proposing right data structures
• Deciding the right technology stack
• Process Flow Designing
• JIRA tool (Project management tool)
Job Description:
• Lead end-to-end IT needs of the division and build a strong full-stack delivery team
• Lead directly (hands-on) the building and running of best-in class platform for online learning
and application portal
• Incorporate key features including adaptive learning, analytics tracking capabilities,
streamlining application processes on the portal, machine learning for automatic university
recommendation system
• Ensure scalability, performance, resilience and device portability of the platform, including
adequate backups, disaster recovery, pen testing, network security etc. to avoid data
breaches, given the high volume of sensitive data
• Lead collaboration with the development teams, project management, IT service and support
teams and other to support their activities, respond to their needs and respond to incidents
Candidate profile:
Ideally, you’d also have experience with:
• Developing and maintaining products that are used by many thousands or millions of people
• Ruby, Rails, React, Node.js, JavaScript, or Python
• Kafka, Amazon MQ, RabbitMQ or similar streaming or messaging systems
• EdTech, eCommerce, or content-management software
• Relational databases, ORM frameworks, and their alternatives
• Microservices or SOA; RESTful APIs, JSON
• AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK stack
• DevOps, Observability, Infrastructure as Code

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Job Description – Technical Head
Industry: Fintech / Financial Services
Experience: 15–20+ years (20 years preferred)
Location: Noida
Reporting To: CEO / Managing Director
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Technical Head to lead and manage the company's IT team, technology infrastructure, software development, and fintech platforms. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring technology reliability, security, scalability, and alignment with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the IT team, including developers, infrastructure, and technical support professionals.
- Oversee software development, application maintenance, system integration, and technology implementation.
- Manage fintech platforms, payment systems, banking APIs, and third-party integrations, as applicable.
- Ensure IT infrastructure, cloud systems, databases, and applications operate securely and efficiently.
- Implement cybersecurity measures, data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
- Manage technology projects, vendors, budgets, and delivery timelines.
- Coordinate with senior management to develop and execute technology strategy.
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, security, and IT governance requirements.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
- 15–20+ years of experience in IT, with 20 years preferred.
- Proven experience in technology leadership and IT team management.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps.
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, or financial services preferred.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.
Work Location: In person
Job Description
We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer (Full Stack) to spearhead the design, development, and delivery of our scalable web platforms and core application ecosystems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between front-end experiences and robust back-end systems. You will lead an agile development team through technical architecture, feature implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.
The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in both frontend and backend modern frameworks, a passion for system design, and practical experience building secure, scalable, and high-performance distributed web applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Lead end-to-end full-stack software development, architectural design, and system evolution.
- Backend Architecture: Design scalable, fault-tolerant backend architectures, optimizing high-volume data ingestion pipelines and processing engines.
- Frontend Excellence: Direct the development of highly responsive, intuitive, and modular user interfaces that ensure a seamless user experience.
- API & Integrations: Architect secure RESTful APIs and integrate external enterprise platforms, third-party microservices, and identity providers.
- Team Mentorship: Mentor developers, run strict code reviews, define engineering best practices, and guide sprint-level execution.
- Data & Messaging: Maintain and optimize relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases alongside message queues for real-time application events.
- Production Ownership: Own technical troubleshooting for live production bottlenecks, system latency issues, and deployment bugs.
- Documentation: Create clean technical documentation, structural architecture diagrams, and system deployment guidelines.
Required Skills
- Experience: 6+ years of software development experience with at least 2+ years leading engineering teams or owning technical delivery.
- Backend Core: Advanced hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, multithreading, and REST API development.
- Frontend Core: Mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (such as React, Angular, or Vue.js), HTML5, and responsive CSS architectures.
- Data Platforms: Proficient with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/Caching systems (Redis, MongoDB).
- Messaging Systems: Experience implementing asynchronous workflows using message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Design Patterns: Strong grasp of microservices patterns, distributed system caching, load balancing, and failover mechanisms.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience deploying workloads to Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience setting up continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
- Exposure to system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
Education Requirement
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Candidates with equivalent exceptional hands-on full-stack engineering experience will be highly considered regardless of formal degree background.
About the role
You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.
Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office
What you will do
Technology & product leadership
- Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
- Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
- Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.
Engineering & platform management
- Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
- Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
- Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.
Innovation & AI strategy
- Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
- Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
- Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
- Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
- Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.
Technical leadership
- A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
- Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
- Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
- Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.
What success looks like
- Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
- Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
- Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.
Qualifications & experience
- Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
- A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
- Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
- Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
- Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.
Technical expertise
- Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
- Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).
Behavioural & leadership competencies
- Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
- Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
- High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the software development function, including developers, technical leads, architects, and QA engineers.
- Define and execute the software development roadmap in alignment with the company's business strategy and growth objectives.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance software applications.
- Lead the development and enhancement of fintech platforms, financial applications, payment solutions, and digital financial products, as applicable.
- Drive API development, third-party integrations, banking integrations, payment gateway integrations, and other financial technology integrations.
- Establish software architecture standards, coding practices, development methodologies, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure application security, data protection, system reliability, scalability, and performance across software platforms.
- Drive the adoption of modern technologies, cloud-based solutions, DevOps practices, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee software development life cycles, sprint planning, release management, quality assurance, and production support.
- Establish engineering KPIs, monitor team performance, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
- Collaborate with Product, Business, Compliance, Information Security, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.
- Ensure software development processes adhere to applicable regulatory requirements, security standards, internal policies, and IT governance practices.
- Manage technology budgets, external development partners, software vendors, and resource allocation.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders, build a high-performing technology team, and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities for process optimization, technical debt reduction, and improvement in software delivery efficiency.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 15–20+ years of experience in software development, engineering, and technology delivery, with approximately 20 years preferred.
- Significant experience in leading software development teams and managing large-scale application development initiatives.
- Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, API development, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and software engineering tools.
- Proven experience in developing scalable, secure, and high-availability applications.
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, digital lending, financial services, or related technology domains is preferred.
- Understanding of financial data security, application security, regulatory compliance, and secure software development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, engineering teams, delivery timelines, and technology priorities.
- Excellent leadership, strategic planning, analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Work Location: In person










