Chief Information & Technology Officer (CITO) — IILM Greater Noida

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

an enterprise setting.

• 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.

• A competitive, benchmarked compensation package plus performance-linked

bonus.

• The opportunity to shape the digital future of a growing university

How to Apply

Interested candidates should share their CV along with a short note (300–500 words)

describing one technology transformation they led end-to-end and its measurable

outcome, to [HIDDEN TEXT] / apply via this posting.

Chief Information Technology Officer