Strategic CTO - Cloud, AI & Resilience for Regulator

Securities and Futures Commission (SFC); Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 2,200,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong is seeking a strategic, hands-on Chief Technology Officer to lead its technology foundations and engineering capability. The CTO will translate enterprise strategy into a secure, modern architecture and a delivery roadmap across engineering, cloud, data and AI platforms.

This leadership role requires guiding modernization, secure delivery, and resilient platforms while building reusable engineering capabilities for a technology-enabled

Qualifications

• 15+ years of senior technology leadership in financial services, market infrastructure, government, regulation, or other mission‑critical environments.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise-scale engineering, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, data, and AI teams.
• Deep expertise in modern engineering, cloud-native architecture, DevSecOps, SRE, observability, and secure delivery.
• Experience governing data platforms, AI, machine learning, and generative AI in production.
• Strong track record in modernization, service reliability, disaster recovery, supplier risk, cybersecurity, and privacy.
• Mission‑led, pragmatic, and delivery-oriented, with sound judgment under pressure and the ability to simplify complex issues.
• Excellent senior stakeholder and collaboration skills, with credibility across technology, policy, supervision, enforcement, risk, finance, HR, regulators, industry bodies, and ecosystem partners.

Responsibilities

• Technology strategy and architecture: Partner with the CIO and senior stakeholders to shape the technology strategy, target architecture and multi-year roadmap.
• Set pragmatic enterprise principles, standards and governance across software, integration, cloud, infrastructure, data and AI.
• Modernize the technology estate so platforms are secure, interoperable, scalable and resilient.
• Engineering, data and AI platforms: Build and lead a high-performing engineering organisation with ownership of secure development, testing, release management and operations.
• Establish common engineering platforms and developer tooling, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, secrets, artefact management and supply-chain controls.
• Embed DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, quality engineering and observability across the delivery lifecycle.
• Build and operate end-to-end governed data and AI platforms; deliver reusable APIs, data products and AI services for regulatory capabilities.
• Cloud, infrastructure and resilience: Lead resilient cloud, infrastructure, network, identity, compute, storage, database and operational tooling services.
• Strengthen resilience for critical services through tested continuity and recovery plans, capacity management, monitoring and metrics.
• Establish cloud governance, automation, and reliability engineering to improve speed, security and cost transparency.
• Work with Cyber Security to embed secure-by-design controls and strengthen supplier governance, knowledge transfer and exit planning.

Skills

Strategic technology leadership

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

DevSecOps

SRE and observability

Data platforms

AI/ML governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Regulatory technology

Job description

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong is seeking a strategic, hands-on Chief Technology Officer to lead its technology foundations and engineering capability. The CTO will translate enterprise strategy into a secure, modern architecture and a delivery roadmap across engineering, cloud, data and AI platforms.

This leadership role requires guiding modernization, secure delivery, and resilient platforms while building reusable engineering capabilities for a technology-enabled