Cloud & AIGCCFull time
7 Sept
Team Lead-Technical Talent Acquisition, Pune City, Maharashtra, India
Pune, India
At par with Industry plus benefits
Full time
Location
Type
Scope
Direct Reports
Reporting
Pune City
Onsite, Full time
India
2-3 Recruiters
Matrix to Director and HR Head
About the organization: Established in 2007 by practicing industry leaders and poised for 2X growth in next 3 years. The organization is known as trusted partners in making IT Transformation with Innovation and Expertise. With a deep-rooted passion for technology, commitment to excellence, the organization helps create secure, scalable and efficient digital environments that drive success for customers.
What’s the business: The organization bridge the gap between legacy systems and modern IT to accelerate transformation. They simplify complexity, unlock innovation, and build technology ecosystems that are future-ready. This includes:
a. Application Modernization
b. IT Infrastructure Modernization
c. Workspace Modernization
d. Information Security & Data Management
e. Business Continuity & Availability Solutions
f. Professional Services
The Role/Opportunity: Lead the technical talent acquisition function like a performing champion, develop competent talent acquisition team for hiring across Cloud Native, AI, IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Service Now, Enterprise Applications, Presales, Sales, Professional Services. Be a trusted talent partner, bringing market insights, strong communication skills and taking full ownership of talent acquisition, in time/scope/budget.
The Accountability: Delivering quantity and quality hirings, developing competent recruiters team, reducing recruitment cycle, maintaining governance, strengthening employer branding, institutionalizing the sustainable hiring practices, and ensuring workforce availability aligned with business and its growth plan.
Focus Areas of hiring:
· Cloud Native & Kubernetes
· AI & Agentic AI
· DevOps & Platform Engineering
· VMware
· Nutanix
· Red Hat
· Networking
· Cybersecurity
· Storage & Backup
· Solution Architects
· Sales, Pre-Sales and Professional Services
· Delivery, Project Management
Key Responsibilities
1. Develop and Deliver Talent Acquisition (TA) Strategies
· Develop and deliver Yearly, quarterly and monthly hiring plans
· Manage multiple priorities, bring structure and scalability to an evolving TA function
· Decide sourcing strategies, leverage network, social media, job boards, develop hiring budgets, for “on the run” and niche/critical roles, ensure talent pipeline
· Drive campus initiatives, participate in tech meets, job fairs, be active in local whats app group, develop partner network, strengthen employee referral program
· Lead senior, niche, and business-critical hiring with a strong focus on quality, speed, and candidate experience
· Strategies for connecting passive prospects, know them, engage them
· Partner with ATS, CRM, AI tools, automate processes and candidate communications that helps get the talent faster and better, keeping human in lead/loop
2. Recruitment and Team Leadership
· Lead and mentor team of recruiters, Ensure and develop competencies of recruiters
· Review recruiter’s performance weekly and initiate actions to build high-performance recruitment culture and continuous learning
· Derive sourcing capabilities, Standardize hiring process, continuously improve and implement best practices.
· Proficient in Microsoft Office tools, ATS, LinkedIn, and AI‑driven recruitment technologies
· Develop positive experience through transparent communication and feedback, ensure a strong Net Promoter Score (NPS) and an inclusive experience for all
3. Recruitment Operations
· Develop and track recruitment SLAs, develop recruitment matrix and KPIs like candidate reach, time to hire, offer to join, source mix, quality of hire, rejection rate
· Drive candidate curiosity to offer to joining conversations with executive composure and within budgets
· Manage recruitment dashboards and MIS/ documentation and full compliance
· Leverage ATS, CRM and data management that helps do recruitment better
· Support onboarding and induction
4. Employer Branding
· Enhance Employer brand reputation to attract talent. Position the company as Employer of Choice and Great Place to Work
· Institutionalize processes that offers exceptional candidate engagement and experience all along irrespective of selection
· Leverage company website, tech platforms job portals, job review platforms to enhance company reputation, showcasing culture and employee value proposition.
5. Stakeholder Management
· Work closely as Trusted Partner with CEO, Directors, BU Heads, Delivery Heads for better understanding of workforce requirement, role priorities and hiring timelines
· Develop productive relations with vendor partners, tech institutions and social media partners, and internal customers
· Proficient in communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
The Candidate
· Credentials: A Bachelor's Degree or certification in HR/Tech (good to have)
· Experience: 6-8 years of IT tech recruitment of which 2 years as team lead
· Hands on: Naukri, LinkedIn, Foundit, Instahyre, ATS/RMS platforms, CRM
· Tech Skills: Strong understanding on IT Infrastructure, Cloud, AI, Cyber security
· Preferred: Experience of working in GCC/GBS, campus hiring, Tech in hiring, applied knowledge of AI sourcing and recruiting tools, automated outreach.
· Competencies: Excellent sourcing and networking savvy, strong interview and evaluation capabilities, Execution Skills, Domain Curiosity, Agile Lerner, problem solver
· The Soft skills: Communication, Relational, Selling, Social, Interpersonal, Conversational Skills, Team player
· Persona: Strategic, committed, soft and assertive, welcoming, empathetic, go to person, growth mindset, likes challenges and accountability, problem solver, outcome driven.
What is in it for the candidate:
· Opportunity to lead talent acquisition function of a dynamic fast-growing organization with multiple tech areas and complexity, industry relevant
· Lead the team of recruiters, without losing the hands-on skills
· Collaborative culture that fosters creativity, supportive, dynamic environment
· Equal Opportunity and Meritocracy First employer
· Industry competitive compensation plus performance linked incentives