Chief Technology Officer (Myanmar-based)

About the role

A multi-entity financial services group operating across banking, wealth, lending and payments in Myanmar is appointing a Chief Technology Officer based in Yangon, reporting to the Executive Committee. It is a builder's role: about three-quarters of the work is execution (mobilising squads, running the change portfolio, holding delivery partners to account, getting change safely into production), and the remaining quarter is direction (owning enterprise and data architecture, setting and delivering a technology roadmap).

Key responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and portfolio: prioritise and sequence technology change, then deliver it on time, on budget and at quality.
• Own enterprise and data architecture, including the architecture function, standards, data strategy, governance and quality, translated into a sequenced roadmap with clear gap closure.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of change initiatives, from mobilisation through engineering, testing and deployment, including in-country engineering squads, QA and delivery management.
• Establish engineering standards such as DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability and SRE, and the disciplined adoption of AI tooling where it improves speed and quality.
• Manage the performance of system integrators and implementation partners, and ensure operational readiness, handover and hypercare.
• Work alongside entity CEOs and CIOs and the group engineering centre of excellence; architecture and major vendor commitments are approved by the Architecture Review Board and group technology governance.

Required profile

• Substantial experience leading technology delivery and engineering organisations in financial services or another regulated industry.
• Track record of large-scale change that landed, such as core platform migration, digital product launch or legacy modernisation.
• Ownership of enterprise and data architecture, with the judgement to set direction that delivery teams can build against.
• Technical credibility: able to interrogate designs, codebases and estimates, with engineers respecting your judgement.
• Depth in modern engineering and experience running both internal squads and external delivery partners.
• Pragmatic, resourceful and committed to building local capability; frontier or emerging market experience is an advantage.