Head / Deputy CTO

Head / Deputy CTO

Our Client: Our client is a leading UPI-led digital payments platform at the heart of Indias rapidly evolving digital payments ecosystem. The organization is scaling its technology and engineering capabilities to drive next-generation payment experiences, platform resilience, innovation and financial inclusion at national scale.

Designation: Head / Deputy CTO

Location: Mumbai

Education: Bachelors in Engineering

Experience: 18-22 years; of which ideally 8–10+ years in senior Technology/Engineering leadership

About the Role: We are looking for a Head / Deputy CTO to lead technology vision, architecture, security and engineering for our payments platform. The role demands a hands-on technology leader with deep expertise in building and scaling secure, high-availability digital platforms.

The ideal candidate should combine strategic leadership with strong technical depth, while influencing architects, engineers, business leaders, regulators and CXOs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Define technology strategy, architecture and modernization roadmap while driving engineering excellence, AI, automation and cloud adoption.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, system design, scalability, security, reliability and critical production issues.
• Lead large engineering teams and end-to-end delivery, partnering with Product, Business, Risk, Operations and Compliance.
• Build highly scalable, secure and resilient payment platforms supporting high transaction volumes, low latency and high availability.
• Drive microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps/DevSecOps and SRE adoption.
• Own platform reliability, DR, observability, security, fraud prevention, business continuity and regulatory compliance.
• Lead integrations with banks, card networks and financial partners.
• Challenge architectural decisions, mentor senior engineering leaders and make key technology, platform and modernization decisions.
• Ensure compliance with RBI, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, CERT-In, and applicable regulatory frameworks.

Technical Competencies & Leadership

• Large-scale digital payment systems and high-volume transaction processing.
• Microservices, API architecture, Java/Spring Boot, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes.
• DevOps/DevSecOps, SRE, platform engineering, secure architecture and observability.
• AI/ML, automation, real-time analytics, performance engineering and scalability.
• Strong ability to lead architecture/design reviews, evaluate trade-offs, resolve critical production issues and challenge technical decisions.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers/architects and drive technology-stack, platform and modernization decisions.

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