Director - ERP

Rishihood University; Sonipat; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rishihood University invites a Director – ERP to own the university's ERP, shaping its architecture and roadmap while aligning student, faculty, admin, and parent workflows through close UI/UX collaboration.

You will lead the RishiVerse Tech team, translating operational needs into scalable solutions and driving cohesive platform evolution across schools and functions.

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of experience in software/product architecture with ERP ownership.
• Ability to design scalable architecture for a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Strong UI/UX briefing and evaluation capability.
• Experience managing developers and translating stakeholder needs into technical execution.
• EdTech or higher education experience is a strong plus.
• Comfortable as the technical decision-maker among non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the ERP roadmap: architecture, data model, and rollout sequence.
• Map end-to-end journeys across student, faculty, and administrative workflows to reduce friction.
• Collaborate with UI/UX to design interfaces usable by non-technical staff.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear technical specifications.
• Lead and mentor the development team; review work against the architecture plan.
• Set technical standards for data integrity, integrations, and scalability.
• Build an action plan with milestones, not a perpetual backlog.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions for ERP modules.

Skills

ERP architecture

Systems thinking

UI/UX briefing

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Rishihood is India’s firstnational transformation university. It prepares learners to solve the bigproblems of tomorrow. Our transformative education is built on three pillars:

• Personal Impact – developing physical, intellectual,emotional, and spiritual strength.
• Professional Impact – building real-world skillsthrough industry-integrated, practice-based learning.
• Public Impact – fostering interdisciplinary thinkingand a commitment to nation-building.

At Rishihood, we nurtureleaders who will transform themselves, their professions, and the nation.

POSITION | Director –ERP

This role leads the RishiVerse Tech team and owns the university's ERP — not just its upkeep, but its architecture. We have developers who can build features; what we need is someone who can think through the entire user journey (student, faculty, admin, parent) and design a system that actually works for how people use it. This person works closely with UI/UX and with stakeholders across schools and functions to translate real operational needs into a coherent, well-architected platform, and then plans the roadmap to get there.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the ERP roadmap: architecture, data model, and the sequence in which capabilities get built
• Map end-to-end user journeys across student, faculty, and administrative workflows, and identify where the current system creates friction.
• Work directly with UI/UX to design interfaces that are usable by non-technical stakeholders — faculty, wardens, admissions staff
• Translate requirements from stakeholders across schools and functions into technical specifications
• Lead and mentor the existing developer team; assign and review work against the architecture plan
• Set technical standards for the ERP: data integrity, integrations, scalability as the university grows
• Build and maintain an action plan with clear milestones, not just an open-ended backlog
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions for specific modules where relevant

Requirements

• 10 - 12 years of experience in software/product architecture, with direct experience owning an ERP or comparable internal platform
• Demonstrated ability to think in systems — someone who can look at a messy, partially-built ERP and see the clean architecture underneath it
• Working fluency in UI/UX principles, even if not a hands-on designer — able to brief and evaluate design work
• Experience managing developers and translating stakeholder needs into technical execution
• Prior experience in EdTech, higher education, or a similarly multi-stakeholder environment is a strong plus
• Comfortable being the technical decision-maker in a room full of non-technical stakeholders

Reporting Line

Heads the RishiVerse Tech team; reports to the COO's office.