Senior Archivist

Req Id: 98573

City: Bengaluru

State/Province: Karnataka

Posting Start Date: 10/3/25

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients' most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description:

Role Details

The Senior Archivist will work as a part of the team under the guidance of the Head of the Archives on research, identification and acquisition. They will take a hands-on approach in acquiring and managing collections. They should have an in-depth understanding of archival processes such as documentation, digitisation, digital collection management, conservation of physical material (documents, audio-visual material as well as other objects) and long-term preservation. They may need to convert digital material produced into a variety of formats, including photographs, documents, recordings and film and preservation of these materials in a digital format for long-term storage. They will organize records, make inventories and write descriptions of the collections, which researchers may use to locate materials. They will be sharing responsibilities of day-to-day management of the Archives and various research and storytelling projects.

• Multi-year strategic and implementation plans
• Archival policies and guidelines
• Plans for outreach and donor management including writing periodic reports

• Hands-on work on acquisition, retrieval, organisation and cataloging of materials including text, visual and audio material for the archive
• Hands-on work on digitisation of analogue material, annotations and metadata, archiving existing material in digital format
• Maintenance of the physical archive, updating and managing digital content on web platforms
• Liaison with software developers to maintain and further develop the content management system and the online archive
• Liaison with vendors for various project related needs
• Represent the team at various public events
• Supervise junior team members, interns, and volunteers
• Coordinate with the internal teams and external researchers to provide archival assistance and material retrieval

• Post graduate degree in Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences (preference will be given to degree in Archival Studies/ Museology/ Digital Humanities or related subjects)
• A professional degree or equivalent in museology/ archiving/ conservation.
• 10 years of experience of working with institutional archives; at least 5 years of lead/ senior role with administrative and supervision experience will be preferred
• Experience of working inside the archive department of a corporate is preferable.
• Proven skill and experience in digitisation and digital collection management.
• Experience in supporting curatorial and exhibition projects.