Chief Technology Officer

Role Description

Travel Corporation (India) Limited, India's premier destination management company, seeks a CTO to lead the technical evolution of our mission-critical travel management platform. You'll oversee our in house digital capability while driving strategic architecture decisions on platform and capability expansion.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership with long-term roadmap development for next-generation DMC technology, as we look to infuse AI both into our practices and out platform features.

We need a technical leader comfortable balancing operational excellence with innovation, translating complex travel industry requirements into robust, scalable solutions. This role offers significant impact at India's market leader in destination management.

This position reports to the MD & CEO.

The candidate needs to have a demonstrable record across the following responsibilities:

Product & Platform Delivery

• Oversee platform evolution while balancing feature delivery with technical health
• Lead and mentor cross functional teams while fostering a collaborative, learning-focused culture of excellence
• Provide hands-on technical leadership: code reviews, architecture decisions, troubleshoot complex problems (performance, database optimization, system design)
• Partner with Product to prioritize roadmaps; drive delivery through clear outcomes, rapid iteration, and technical feasibility assessments
• Establish and enforce SDLC best practices and drive AI adoption across our development lab across development, testing and prototyping.

Technology Strategy & Architecture

· Define a multi-year technology vision, aligned with corporate strategy and market dynamics.

· Drive build vs. buy decisions; rationalize legacy systems; plan modernization and tech debt remediation.

· Drive data strategy and AI/ML operationalization: governance, analytics, model lifecycle, responsible AI practices

· Own cloud strategy scalability, cost optimization (FinOps), and performance

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Accountable for security posture, incident response, vulnerability management, and secure SDLC
• Ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks as applicable

Financial & Vendor Management

• Own technology budget including cloud spend optimization and ROI tracking
• Negotiate and manage strategic vendors, contracts, and SLAs; minimize lock-in risks

Governance & Communication

• Establish technology governance (architecture review boards, decision registers, risk logs)
• Provide transparent reporting on delivery, risk, and value to executive team and board

Key Skills & Technologies

Java, ReactJS, Spring Boot, AWS, PostgresSQL, Elastic Search, Event Driven paradigms, Test Driven Development, AI based coding agents (cursor, claude), MCP.

Exp : 15-20 Year

Budget : Upto 75LPA

Skills Required
Java, Cursor, Spring Boot, Test Driven Development, Postgressql, Reactjs, Elastic Search, Mcp, Aws