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Deputy CTO

Pune Permanent View Job Description
Our client is seeking a Deputy CTO / Forward Deployed Engineering leader who combines deep enterprise engineering expertise with extensive customer-facing implementation experience. This individual will partner with customers, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to solve complex technical challenges while translating field insights into scalable platform capabilities and technical strategy.
  • Be the CTO's trusted operator across engineering and customers
  • Drive technical strategy through real-world customer impact

About Our Client

Our client is a rapidly growing enterprise technology company delivering mission-critical software solutions to customers operating in complex, highly regulated environments. The organization sits at the intersection of engineering excellence, customer delivery, and innovation, helping enterprises deploy secure, scalable, and business-critical technology at scale

Job Description

Reporting directly to the CTO, the Deputy CTO will serve as a strategic and technical partner responsible for bridging engineering, customer deployments, and technology strategy. This role is ideal for leaders who have operated in Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), Field CTO, Solutions Engineering, Principal Architecture, or Deputy CTO environments.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Act as the CTO's delegate across architecture reviews, customer engagements, escalations, and strategic initiatives.
  • Work directly with enterprise customers to understand complex technical, operational, and business requirements.
  • Partner with implementation teams and system integrators to ensure successful deployments within customer environments.
  • Identify customer-specific challenges, implementation bottlenecks, and capability gaps, translating these insights into improvements within the core platform.
  • Drive technical strategy through deep understanding of customer needs, market realities, and engineering priorities.
  • Lead architectural decisions across distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and security-sensitive environments.
  • Champion modern engineering practices, including AI- and LLM-assisted software development.
  • Maintain a hands-on leadership approach across architecture, code reviews, technical problem-solving, and solution design.
  • Mentor engineering teams and raise technical standards across the organization.
  • Navigate high-pressure customer situations while balancing delivery outcomes with long-term platform scalability.

The Successful Applicant

  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, and technical leadership.
  • Experience as a Deputy CTO, Forward Deployed Engineer, Field CTO, Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, Solutions Engineering Leader, or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated success working directly with enterprise customers throughout implementation, adoption, and transformation initiatives.
  • Strong expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, microservices, APIs, platform engineering, and enterprise architecture.
  • Experience supporting products deployed into regulated or mission-critical environments such as cybersecurity, digital identity, financial services, telecom, healthcare, government, or critical infrastructure.
  • The ability to translate customer-specific requirements and deployment learnings into scalable platform enhancements.
  • Proven track record of influencing engineering and technology strategy through direct customer engagement.
  • Hands-on experience with modern software engineering practices, DevOps, cloud technologies, and AI-enabled development workflows.
  • Exceptional communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to build credibility across both technical and business stakeholders.
  • Strong ownership mindset, sound judgement, and the ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments.

What's on Offer

  • Opportunity to serve as the CTO's closest technical and operational partner.
  • Significant influence over engineering direction and technology strategy.
  • Exposure to complex enterprise deployments and executive-level customer engagements.
  • Opportunity to shape how mission-critical technology is delivered and scaled.
  • High-visibility leadership role spanning engineering, architecture, and customer success.
  • Collaborative, fast-paced environment with substantial scope for impact and growth.
Quote job ref
JN-102026-7127434

Job summary

Function
Information Technology
Sub Sector
IT Architecture
What is your area of specialisation?
Technology & Telecoms
Location
Pune
Job Type
Permanent
Job Reference
JN-102026-7127434

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