Head of Engineering

About the Company

i-TEK is one of India’s leading AIDC and RFID technology organizations with a strong focus on next-generation products, platforms, intelligent edge ecosystems, and embedded device engineering.

With:

• Over 5 billion items tagged
• 1,000+ enterprise customers
• 250+ million scans processed daily
• Presence across 3,000+ retail outlets
• Coverage across 10+ million sq. ft. of warehouse space

i-TEK has established itself as a market leader across retail, logistics, manufacturing, and banking sectors.

As part of our next phase of growth, we are significantly expanding our focus on:

• RFID and AIDC platforms
• Embedded and edge device ecosystems
• Enterprise SaaS solutions
• Intelligent automation, AI, and analytics
• Global platform-led expansion

We are now looking for a world-class engineering leader to help build globally scalable products and platforms that define the future of RFID, AIDC, and intelligent enterprise ecosystems.

Head of Engineering

Location: Pune [on-site]

Experience : 18–22 years of strong engineering leadership experience in enterprise products, SaaS platforms, scalable technology systems, embedded ecosystems, and product engineering organizations.

About the Role

The Head of Engineering will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping i-TEK’s product engineering vision, architecture, engineering culture, and technology execution.

This role is responsible for building highly scalable, extensible, configurable, secure, and cloud-native platforms that can support multiple vertical use cases across retail, manufacturing, logistics, banking, and emerging sectors.

The ideal candidate will combine:

• Deep technical expertise
• Strong platform engineering experience
• Product engineering mindset
• Modern SaaS engineering practices
• Strong architecture and scalability orientation
• Leadership capability to build high-performance engineering teams

This role requires a leader who can operate at both strategic and hands-on levels while mentoring teams toward engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end engineering for i-TEK’s software platforms, embedded systems, and intelligent edge ecosystems.
• Drive the evolution of Garuda Vigil into a globally scalable enterprise-grade RFID and AIDC platform.
• Lead the engineering evolution of Skanixa as a configurable and scalable embedded edgeware ecosystem.
• Ensure platforms are configurable, extensible, multi-tenant, secure, API-first, cloud-native, and highly scalable.
• Build engineering systems supporting both SaaS deployments and dedicated enterprise/on-premise deployments.
• Build platforms capable of rapid prototyping, agile rollout, and faster adaptability to changing market and customer requirements.
• Define and govern overall platform architecture and engineering standards.
• Ensure abstraction of requirements into reusable horizontal platform capabilities.
• Build platforms that enable rapid development of industry-specific use cases.
• Drive modern engineering practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, infrastructure automation, release orchestration, and evergreen architecture.
• Establish strong release management and roadmap governance processes.
• Work closely with product management and hardware/device engineering teams to build configurable and scalable embedded and edge device ecosystems.
• Ensure interoperability across RFID and AIDC environments.
• Drive engineering quality and consistency across firmware, device management, diagnostics, and edge integrations.
• Build platforms that enable partners, system integrators, and customers to rapidly develop applications and industry-specific use cases.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Delivery, Customer Success, and Business teams.
• Build and mentor high-performance engineering teams across architecture, software engineering, embedded systems, QA, DevOps, security, scrum management, and platform operations.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Drive patent creation, technical innovation, and engineering differentiation.
• Represent i-TEK in technology forums, customer discussions, and industry engagements.
• Strong preference for experience in retail technology, supply chain platforms, IoT, edge platforms, enterprise automation ecosystems, or adjacent technology domains.

Required Skills

Technical Expertise:

• Cloud-native architectures
• Distributed systems
• SaaS engineering
• Multi-tenant platforms
• API platforms and integrations
• Event-driven architectures
• Security engineering
• Performance and scalability engineering
• DevSecOps and CI/CD
• Observability and reliability engineering
• Data platforms and analytics ecosystems
• AI/ML readiness and intelligent platform design
• Embedded systems and edge computing ecosystems
• Firmware lifecycle and device management systems

Leadership Attributes:

• Strong systems thinking and clarity of thought
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to operate strategically while remaining technically credible
• High ownership orientation
• Strong mentoring and people leadership capability
• Passion for engineering excellence and innovation

Preferred Skills

• Experience in retail technology
• Experience in supply chain platforms
• Experience in IoT and edge platforms
• Experience in enterprise automation ecosystems
• Experience in adjacent technology domains related to RFID, AIDC, and intelligent platforms