i-TEK RFID
Website:
infoteksoftware.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/itek-rfid
Seniority: Director
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
Job details:
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.
- 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
Our strategic platforms include:
- Garuda Vigil – A comprehensive RFID and AIDC management software platform
- Skanixa – An intelligent edgeware and embedded device ecosystem
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.
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-premises 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.
Qualifications
Experience:
- 18–22 years of strong engineering leadership experience in enterprise products, SaaS platforms, scalable technology systems, embedded ecosystems, and product engineering organizations.
- Strong preference for experience in retail technology, supply chain platforms, IoT, edge platforms, enterprise automation ecosystems, or adjacent technology domains.
Required Skills
- 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
Preferred Skills
- 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
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