ABOUT RISHIHOOD UNIVERSITY
Rishihood is India’s first national transformation university. It prepares learners to solve the big problems of tomorrow. Our transformative education is built on three pillars:
• Personal Impact – developing physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual strength.
• Professional Impact – building real-world skills through industry-integrated, practice-based learning.
• Public Impact – fostering interdisciplinary thinking and a commitment to nation-building.
At Rishihood, we nurture leaders who will transform themselves, their professions, and the nation.
Every stakeholder—learners, faculty, staff, leadership, parents, alumni and external partners—interacts with different departments, systems and workflows. The CTO will map these relationships and build a connected digital environment through which people can communicate, collaborate, access information and move work forward.
The ambition is to develop a distinctive institutional technology ecosystem that reflects how Rishihood works and enables how it wants to grow. RishiVerse will be an important part of this ecosystem, alongside other platforms, integrations, communication channels and tools.
This role requires a systems thinker with strong technical depth, product judgment and the ability to lead implementation.
1. Design the university’s technology layer
Map stakeholders across departments, their roles, information needs, interactions and dependencies.
Understand how work moves through the university, including decisions, approvals, communication and service requests.
Define the architecture that connects people, workflows, applications, and institutional data.
Create a phased technology roadmap aligned with Rishihood’s institutional priorities.
2. Enable communication and collaboration
Design clear digital communication pathways within and across departments, and between the university and its stakeholders.
Ensure that requests, updates, and decisions reach the right people, with clear ownership and visibility of progress.
Create shared workspaces and knowledge systems that preserve institutional knowledge and make it accessible.
Work with departments to simplify processes before translating them into digital workflows.
3. Build a connected digital ecosystem
Lead the evolution of RishiVerse and its integration with other university platforms.
Establish common identity, access, data and integration standards across systems.
Enable information to move securely between functions, reducing repeated data entry and fragmented records.
Make build-versus-buy decisions that balance institutional distinctiveness, usability, cost and maintainability.
4. Lead engineering and delivery
Build, lead and mentor the technology team, working closely with IT, design and departmental teams.
Own architectural decisions and remain involved in technical reviews and complex problem-solving.
Establish standards for development, testing, documentation, deployment and system monitoring.
Manage technology partners and vendors against clear delivery expectations.
Deliver improvements in manageable phases, with visible outcomes and accountable ownership.
5. Strengthen institutional intelligence
Establish trusted data foundations and shared definitions across departments.
Develop dashboards and reporting that help teams and leadership understand performance, dependencies and unresolved issues.
Identify opportunities for automation and AI to improve coordination, service delivery and decision-making.
Evaluate new capabilities for usefulness, accuracy, privacy and cost.
6. Ensure trust, reliability and adoption
Establish appropriate access controls, security safeguards, audit trails and recovery practices.
Coordinate with IT to ensure dependable infrastructure and continuity of critical services.
Lead adoption through stakeholder participation, training and ongoing feedback.
Measure success through improvements in communication, turnaround time, data quality, usability and stakeholder experience.
Year-One Deliverables
The specific workflows and measurement definitions will be agreed during the first 90 days, with department heads accountable for process ownership and adoption, and the CTO accountable for technology delivery.
Typically 10–15 years of experience in technology architecture, software engineering or digital transformation, including leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience building connected systems across multiple departments and stakeholder groups.
Strong grounding in application architecture, databases, APIs, integrations, cloud infrastructure and security.
Ability to understand organizational processes and translate them into coherent technology solutions.
Product and user-experience judgment, with an emphasis on making systems usable for diverse users.
Experience leading engineering teams, managing vendors and making technology investment decisions.
Ability to work closely with institutional leadership while remaining involved in technical execution.
Experience in higher education or another complex service organization is desirable.
Requirements
Skills Required
- 10–15 years of experience in technology architecture, software engineering, or digital transformation
- Leadership responsibility in technology
- Experience building connected systems across multiple departments and stakeholder groups
- Strong grounding in application architecture, databases, APIs, integrations, cloud infrastructure, and security
- Ability to understand organizational processes and translate them into technology solutions
- Product and user-experience judgment focused on usability for diverse users
- Experience leading engineering teams
- Experience managing vendors and making technology investment decisions
- Ability to work closely with institutional leadership while remaining involved in technical execution
- Experience in higher education or another complex service organization
What We Do
Rishihood University is an Indian private university and impact-focused higher-education institution in Sonipat, Haryana. Established by Rishihood Foundation, it offers multidisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate programs, including technology, business, design, and psychology. The university aims to reimagine higher education as a force for national transformation, combining personal growth, professional excellence, public impact, and an industry-integrated, values-first learning environment for future-ready learners and leaders.
