Senior Manager/Chief Manager-Forward Auction

Government e-Marketplace; New Delhi; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

GeM invites applications from eligible candidates for the role of Senior Manager / Chief Manager Forward Auction on a contractual basis under the Project Management Unit (PMU) for an initial period of 5 years.

The role includes engaging with stakeholders, owning the Forward Auction architecture, ensuring portal health via data and analytics, and coordinating with MSPs for development and deployment while optimizing cloud costs.

Qualifications

• 11+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering and/or product development.
• Strong understanding of application architectures, system planning, networking, operating systems, mobile & web technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support business development and growth of the Forward Auction platform by engaging with stakeholders and promoting adoption.
• Single point of contact for GeM Technology and Architecture design and implementation for Forward Auction.
• Responsible for overall health of Forward Auction on portal using data and analytics.
• Manage architectural requirements and review solution development for adherence to architecture.
• Monitor improvements in architecture, solutions, algorithms and infrastructure to contain costs.
• Manage Forward Auction architectural changes and documentation.

Skills

Software architecture

Cloud platforms

Web technologies

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/technology or MCA

Tools

Enterprise architecture

Job description

Date 08-Sept-2026

Recruitment for the role of Senior Manager / Chief Manager Forward Auction

About GeM

Government eMarketplace (GeM) is a unified digital platform that facilitates end-to-end procurement of goods and services

by various government departments, organizations, and public sector undertakings (PSUs). Our Honourable Prime Ministers concerted efforts to harness the power of digital platforms to achieve Minimum Government, Maximum Governance led to the genesis of GeM in 2016.

GeM provides a paperless, cashless and contactless ecosystem for government buyers to directly purchase products and services from pan-India sellers and service providers through an online platform. GeM covers the entire gamut of procurement process, right from vendor registration and item selection by buyers to receipt of goods and facilitation of timely payments. GeM has envisioned to utilise the agility and speed that come along with a digital platform created with a strategic intent to reinvigorate public procurement systems and bring about a lasting change for the underserved as well as the nation.

Built on the pillars of Efficiency, Transparency and Inclusivity, GeM has emerged as a digital tool in nations interest, aimed at catalyzing excellence in public procurement. To know more about us, please visit- https://gem.gov.in/

You may also follow us on social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, Koo App, YouTube, Facebook

GeM invites applications from eligible candidates for recruitment to the following position(s) on Contractual Basis:

This is a contractual engagement under the Project Management Unit (PMU) for an initial period of 5 years, extendable based on performance and organizational requirements.

Role And Responsibility

• Support business development and growth of the Forward Auction platform by engaging with relevant stakeholders, identifying new business opportunities and use cases, promoting adoption, and providing strategic inputs for expansion and enhancement of the Forward Auction ecosystem.
• Shall be single point of contact for GeM Technology and Architecture design and implementation for Forward Auction.
• Responsible for overall health of Forward Auction on portal using effective data and analytics
• Management of the SME/ Service Provider for development of Forward Auction and interaction with MSP for monitoring of development requirements.
• Develop deep understanding of existing GeM architecture and manage architectural requirements.
• Imbibe key GeM architectural principles proposed by Purchaser and perform detailed design of software, hardware, network and security architecture of GeM Forward Auction.
• Review software solution development to ensure alignment with the architecture designed should proactively monitor the adherence of the implementation to the chosen architecture during all iterations.
• Monitor continuous improvements in architecture, solution, algorithms and infrastructure to contain costs.
• Manage GeM Forward Auction architectural changes and ensure timely and accurate documentation of all key changes.
• Any other responsibility may be assigned from time to time.

JOB QUALIFICATION & REQUIREMENTS

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• 11+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering and/or product development.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business requirements and derive high-level architecture diagrams and technical designs, FRS, use cases and design patterns
• Must have strong understanding of application architectures, system planning, networking, operating systems, mobile & web technologies
• Awareness of various technologies including Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, workflow, BI, web architecture, and development platforms and tools.
• Should possess extensive detailed working knowledge and acumen in the employment enterprise architecture best practices, including, but not limited to, logical and physical data architectures on public cloud, network communications, operating systems, applications, data base servers, application servers, web servers, server network and storage performance, middleware, server and storage virtualization & capacity planning. Should have experience of hosting an enterprise application on pure cloud.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology or MCA from a reputed institute or University.