SVP-IT (Enterprise Architect)
Role
SVP-IT (Enterprise Architect)
Reporting to
EVP
Function
Technology
Level
L2
Grade
G2
Age Criteria
Maximum age 45 years (till 30 May 2015)
Experience
15 – 18 Years
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Role Description
The role mainly involves designing, guiding and supervising over-all architecture of large and complex
projects in GSTN like Goods and Services Tax Project. The role envisions the organization’s mandate
on service offerings and ensuring the delivery through appropriate technology platforms and
applications. The person will be responsible for all technology architecture of related applications and
will lead the application strategy for the intended users. The person should be able communicate with
clarity and confidence about technical architecture, industry trends, tradeoffs and other practices,
providing confidence to others, including senior officials of the industry and government.
Position Profile
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Provides leadership and vision of overall architecture and technology strategy as it relates to
research, application design, infrastructure design, security design, and application
architecture for the systems at GSTN
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Responsible for design, review, and approval of application architecture components,
technology standards, technology selections, and application security design.
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Design APIs, review and approve application and database designs, review and approve
technology infrastructure deployments, review and approve security design of entire
application stack, and provide single point contact for all application technology and
architecture decisions and design approvals.
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Work ranges from conceptual and strategic to tactical and includes designing new
components as well as initiating and overseeing the implementation of the whole system
including deep dive and troubleshooting of systems from a technology architecture
perspective.
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Define technology best practices, standards, review and approve vendors’ technology work
Responsible for
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Overall technical leadership to GSTN with respect to application solution
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Working with the internal and external partners to establish complete systems architecture
and design including APIs, Data Model, User Experience, ensuring best practices and design
principles are followed.
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Designing APIs, reviewing and approving application and database designs
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Providing inputs to various GSTN business owners to help define requirements and
technology policies
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Scalable & reliable architecture of the core application, integrations, payment gateways and
allied applications needed for various applications
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Creation of reference architectures, reference implementations, and proofs-of-concept
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Being a core member of the application definition team which will review and approve
technology infrastructure deployments and security design of entire application stack and be
leader for the product architecture to define the implementation strategy and technologies
requirements.
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Managing technology relationship with the banks, Payment cards provider’s technology team
for seamless integration and service delivery
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Developing business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for technology spending
and initiatives.
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Defining requirements for new technology implementations, information security and privacy
requirement.
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Coordination among multiple vendors’ teams, internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams
and consultants etc. to sort out issues related to technical architecture.
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In-Depth understanding of key technical domains for ability to govern the large and complex
IT projects
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Providing guidance to GSTN on all technical matters and technology integrations.
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Identifying technical risks to the ongoing or future projects
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Provide assistance in the change management and capacity building for overall program
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Ensuring that any architecture design complies with the security policy of the GSTN
Others
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Managing, motivating and mentoring team members for better team bonding and coordination
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Conflict Management & Resolution within team
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Working in concert with senior leaders of GSTN on all technology matters including necessary
communications
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Providing direction, guidance to project & support teams for achieving the expected results
Key Attributes & Skills:
Educational Qualifications :
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The applicant should be a B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science/IT from a reputed institute.
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Masters degree in Computer Science and/or A Ph.D in Computer Science from an acclaimed
university will be preferred.
Experience :
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Should have a minimum of 15 years in the IT industry with at least 10 years into large scale
systems architecture and implementation
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Strong technical experience with respect to high performance architecture covering security,
integrations and scalability
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Experience in building large scale transactional systems that can support 100’s of millions of
transactions
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Proven experience in building online-offline systems with high level of data integrity
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In-depth hand-on experience in designing and building component layered IT systems using
broad technologies such as Java, RDBMS, XML, HTML, Mobile, NoSQL systems, among
others
Preferred :
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Candidates with hand-on experience in multiple IT domains in areas of Application
development, Databases, IT Infrastructure etc.
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End-to-end understanding of the software development process including payment
gateways. Experience in leading banks, payment systems companies and gateways would
be an added preference.
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Experience of building systems that are API based, loosely coupled, and highly automatable.
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Handled similar roles as Chief Technology Officer/Technical Director or equivalent for at least
3 years in a large product/IT Solution company
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Experience in building very large database systems that can scale in a distributed
environment that handles billions of rows and 100’s of TB of data
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Excellent verbal and written communications and presentation skills.
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Excellent team leading skills