About the role

Position/Job Title Chief Architect - Healthcare & Lifesciences

Business Unit: Healthcare & Life Sciences

Work Location: Bangalore/ Pune/ Chennai

Experience – 18-25 Years

Job Description

About the Role:

The client is scaling its Healthcare & Life Sciences unit to deliver interoperable, AI-powered platforms across Connected Medical Device-to-Value ecosystems, Value-Based Care, Digital Core Admin, Telehealth/RPM across the Core Engineering space.

We seek a CTO who can set the technology vision and own execution end-to-end—from Software

engineering, Medical devices ER&D architecture, platform engineering to security, data governance, and client-facing solution leadership.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: In this role, you will be responsible for:

Technology Strategy & Platform Roadmap

· Define a 3–5 year technology vision and portfolio roadmap and reusability standards across products.

· Make build/buy/partner decisions; establish reference architectures, standards, and technology governance (APIs, data, integration, AI/ML).

· Align tech strategy with BU growth goals, product strategy, and GTM; drive OKRs that translate strategy into measurable outcomes.

· Drive Software engineering practices & SaMD.

Product & Platform Engineering Leadership

· Lead engineering for multi-tenant SaaS , SaMD platforms (secure-by-design, high availability, performance at scale).

· Champion SRE/DRE, reliability engineering, observability (OpenTelemetry), and automation-first operations.

· Architect FHIR-native, API-first, microservices platforms; enforce modularity, domain driven design, and design-for-change.

Security, Compliance & Risk

· For SaMD/device-connected solutions, ensure alignment to IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and

· FDA/CE pathways in collaboration with quality & regulatory teams.

Interoperability & Integration

· Standardize event-driven patterns (Kafka), GraphQL/REST APIs, and API governance (versioning, discoverability, SLAs).

Client Advisory, Pre-Sales & Partnerships

· Steer technical narratives for RFP/RFI responses (blueprints, estimates, sizing, BoM) and

lead executive workshops & due diligence.

· Build strategic alliances with AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, NVIDIA, MuleSoft,

· Apigee/Kong, and leading EMR vendors; drive co-sell/marketplace strategies.

· Represent Tata Elxsi as a technology thought leader via conferences, publications, and standards forums.

· Apigee/Kong, and leading EMR vendors; drive co-sell/marketplace strategies. Represent

Tata Elxsi as a technology thought leader via conferences, publications, and standards forums.

Organization, Talent & Culture

· Design the tech org (Architecture Guild, Platform Engineering, Data/AI, Security) and

scale blended teams (in-house + partners).

· Foster a culture of agility, curiosity, craftsmanship, and accountability with transparent

metrics and blameless postmortems.

Innovation & Accelerators

· Incubate reusable accelerators (API templates, data pipelines, MLOps scaffolds, device

cybersecurity playbooks).

· Encourage IP creation (patents, design frameworks) and institutional knowledge bases.

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Background

· 18–25 years of progressive technology leadership, with 15+ years in Medical devices and

Healthcare

· Proven track record in software engineering, enterprise-grade cloud platforms, SaMD platforms and multi-tenant SaaS at scale.

· Deep familiarity with workflows & Automation: device monitoring, Software engineering across embedded space,RCM, telehealth/RPM.

Leadership & Behaviors

· Strategic systems thinker with a builder’s bias for action and habit of ‘ship value early, iterate fast.

· Executive communication, client-facing credibility, cross-functional influence, and change

management.

Education & Certifications (Preferred)

· Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.

· TOGAF, Cloud Solution Architect (AWS/Azure/GCP), Healthcare IT/HITRUST, ISO/FDA device- related exposure.

· Experience with Responsible AI frameworks or SaMD regulatory pathways is a plus.