Vietnam Chief Technology Officer

Define the overall technology strategy and solution architecture for the program.

Translate business capabilities into scalable technical architecture across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure.

Ensure consistency in architecture across different domains, squads, and solution streams.

Verify technical decisions and implementation approaches to ensure long-term sustainability.

Ensure architecture aligns with enterprise standards, regulatory expectations, and client technology roadmaps.

Provide leadership and guidance to architecture, engineering, and delivery teams throughout the software lifecycle.

Act as the final technical escalation point for critical delivery issues, scope changes, risks, and dependencies.

Ensure delivery quality through strong technical governance, design reviews, and architecture compliance.

Oversee the technical RAID process (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and its mitigation planning.

Ensure all non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and availability are addressed.

Serve as the primary technical counterpart to client senior stakeholders, including enterprise architects and technology leadership.

Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, design sessions, and executive alignment discussions.

Present complex technical concepts clearly to both technical teams and senior non-technical leadership.

Build credibility and trust with stakeholders at all levels, from engineers to executives.

Validate and map business requirements into clear technical solution concepts and designs.

Provide consultative guidance on technology choices and implementation approaches.

Review business processes and align them with technical design, ensuring end-to-end feasibility.

Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation and solution design artifacts.

Act as a bridge across product owners, engineering managers, solution architects, platform teams, security teams, and vendors.

Ensure alignment between multiple delivery streams such as core banking, cards, payments, digital channels, integration, and data.

Coordinate architecture and delivery consistency across distributed and offshore teams.

Drive collaboration between internal and client teams to remove blockers and expedite execution.

Promote modern engineering practices including microservices and distributed architecture, event-driven systems (Kafka), cloud-native development, CI/CD, DevOps, and automation-first engineering.

Advocate for security-by-design and compliance-by-design principles across delivery.

Promote AI-assisted engineering practices across the SDLC (code generation, test automation, refactoring, documentation), while ensuring correctness, governance, and security.

Over a decade of experience in senior technology leadership roles (CTO, Technical Director, Principal Architect, Solution Architect, Technical Consultant).

Extensive experience leading large-scale programs involving multiple engineering squads and complex stakeholder environments.

Demonstrated success in consultative client-facing leadership, including executive communication and decision facilitation.

Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and API-driven architecture.

Proven experience with microservices and distributed systems.

Familiarity with event-driven architecture (Kafka).

Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns.

Background in cloud platforms, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.

Profound understanding of architecture governance, scalability design, performance engineering, and resiliency.

Substantial exposure to banking or FinTech domains, such as core banking modernization, payments, cards, risk and compliance, and digital channels.

Familiarity with regulatory, security, and compliance expectations in financial services.

Proficient in influencing and guiding senior leadership decision-making through clear technical narratives.

Strong presentation and documentation skills.

Ability to lead global delivery teams, including offshore and remote engineering organizations.

Experience in dealing with global clients.

Offers competitive salary

Salary bands are reviewed annually

Provides 13th-month salary pro rata based on employee's length of service

Monthly lunch allowance of 700,000 VND per employee

Covers monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes

Conducts performance evaluation once a year for performance bonuses and salary increments

Provides private health insurance including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for permanent employees after 2-month probation

Offers expense claim for eyewear and annual health check-ups

Provides a maximum of 18-day vacation leave per year, with the option to carry over 5 days until the following year

Grants an additional annual leave day for every two-year anniversary

Allocates annual fund for fitness activities based on team's vote

Offers a range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk, and beer on tap

Conducts company townhall meetings every 6 weeks

Engages in CSR activities as per company's CSR guideline

Offers onsite tour/training courses at other offices and client's destination overseas where applicable.

PEGASI – IT Recruitment Consultancy | Email: recruit@pegasi.com.vn | Tel: +84 28 3622 8666