Chief Information Technology Officer

IILM University, Greater Noida; Dadri; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Job summary

IILM University in Greater Noida seeks a seasoned technology executive to lead the campus IT strategy, infrastructure, and cybersecurity. The CITO will establish foundational systems in the first year and drive a unified digital platform across admissions, LMS, portals, and student experience.

The role carries full P&L accountability for the IT budget, with direct reporting to the Vice Chancellor and Board. We seek a hands-on leader with 15+ years in IT, incl.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in senior IT leadership roles with full budget ownership.
• Experience modernising IT infrastructure/ERP in education or related sectors.
• Flagship digital-transformation project led end-to-end with measurable outcomes.
• Experience owning information-security and data-governance programmes.
• Hands-on technical perspective in addition to management responsibilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering; MBA/MTech is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define technology strategy and 3–5 year campus IT roadmap aligned to NEP 2020 and regulatory expectations.
• Lead selection and rollout of a unified cloud-first SIS/ERP and campus infrastructure.
• Build a campus-wide digital experience for students and faculty and scalable architecture.
• Stand up a data warehouse and governance framework with AI pilot initiatives.
• Modernize information security and data protection across the university.
• Own IT budget, vendor contracts, and lead a lean, capable IT team.
• Collaborate with Deans, Registrar, CFO and Digital teams to drive adoption.

Skills

IT leadership

CIO/CTO experience

Budget ownership

Stakeholder management

Hands-on technology leader

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's in CS/IT/Engineering

Master’s degree (MBA/MTech)

Tools

ERP/SIS systems

Cloud infrastructure

Data governance tools

Job description

Location: Greater Noida

Reporting to: Vice Chancellor

Employment: Full-time

About IILM

IILM Group of Institutions is a multi-campus private higher education group with over

three decades of legacy in management, law, engineering, design and liberal-arts

education, operating through IILM University and its constituent institutes across

Gurugram, Greater Noida, Delhi, Jaipur and Lucknow. As the Group scales its

academic footprint, pursues university status across campuses, and competes for

students and faculty in an increasingly digital-first higher-education market, it is

creating a CITO role for its largest campus at Greater Noida, where the mandate is

to build a modern, secure and unified technology backbone from the ground up.

The Role

The CITO will be the single executive owner of technology strategy, infrastructure,

digital experience, academic technology, institutional data and cybersecurity across

the campus. This is fundamentally a builder’s mandate: The successful candidate

will spend the first 12 months establishing foundational systems and governance

before layering on advanced digital and AI capability. The role carries full P&L

accountability for the IT budget and rationalize the multiple technology investments

into one coherent, scalable platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Technology strategy & roadmap: Author and own a 3–5 year campus IT roadmap aligned to academic growth, NEP 2020 and UGC/AICTE digital-infrastructure expectations; present progress to the Vice Chancellor’s office and Board.
• Core infrastructure & ERP/SIS: Lead selection and roll‑out of a unified, cloud‑first Student Information System / ERP, network and campus infrastructure standardisation, and data‑centre/cloud consolidation
• Digital student & faculty experience: Build a phased, IILM‑wide digital campus experience (admissions, LMS, portals, mobile access) for Greater Noida with responsibility for developing standards/platforms capable of subsequently being adopted across the IILM Group —IILM’s own version of a unified “campus app” — sequenced to available budget and infrastructure maturity.
• Data, analytics & AI: Stand up a data warehouse and reporting layer; introduce governed, practical AI use cases for admissions, student support, faculty productivity and administration, starting with high-ROI pilots moved to production.
• Cybersecurity, risk & compliance: Modernize the university‑wide information‑security programme (identity management, data protection, incident response) meeting India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and UGC/regulatory requirements.
• Budget, vendor & team leadership: Own the IT budget; negotiate and rationalise vendor and cloud contracts; build, mentor and retain a lean, capable IT team.
• Stakeholder & change leadership: Work closely with Deans Registrar, the CFO and the existing Digital function to drive adoption across academic and administrative stakeholders

Requirements — Must-Have

• 15+ years in progressively senior IT leadership roles, including at least 5 years as CIO / CTO / Head of IT (or in a role of equivalent scope) with full budget and team ownership.
• Demonstrated experience standing up or substantially modernising IT infrastructure/ERP in— education, healthcare, BFSI, logistics or a comparable service‑sectors
• A clear, verifiable, flagship digital‑transformation project led end‑to‑end, with measurable business or institutional outcomes
• Direct experience owning or building an information‑security and data‑governance programme
• Is a hands‑on person, not a manager only, without a technical point of view
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering; a Master’s degree (MBA, MTech or equivalent) is required

Good-to-Have

• Prior exposure to the higher‑education, ed‑tech, or NEP 2020 regulatory environment in India.
• Hands‑on (not merely pilot‑stage) experience deploying applied/generative AI in
• Experience building a technology function from a relatively lean starting base, rather than only managing an already‑mature enterprise stack.
• External recognition (industry awards, board/fellowship positions, published thought leadership) evidencing standing in the CIO/CTO community.

What IILM Offers

• A green‑field mandate to build (not just run) a university technology function from the ground up.
• Direct visibility and reporting line to the Vice Chancellor and Board.
• bonus.
• The opportunity to shape the digital future of a growing university