CTO: Architect a Scalable Finance Platform

Doit; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

doit Holdings in Malaysia is seeking a CTO to own technology for our regulated investment platform. This build role requires delivering from architecture to systems evidence for registration under the SC guidelines.

You will lead the engineering team, drive reliability, security, and performance, and ensure secure development, testing, and acceptance. hybrid work from our Malaysia office with global teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering background with production systems.
• Experience setting architecture direction across multiple products/teams.
• Ability to review code, architecture, incidents hands-on.
• Strong English communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and major technical decisions for the platform, from onboarding and order routing through records, reporting and the partner interfaces.
• Build and lead the engineering team, and set standards across reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality.
• Implement the SC's technology risk requirements as engineering practice: change control and approvals, secure development, testing and acceptance, capacity and resilience.
• Produce the systems evidence behind the readiness declaration a director and the Responsible Person must sign before the platform may operate.
• Take the platform through the independent technology validation that gates registration, and close what it finds.
• Own business continuity and disaster recovery, tested rather than documented.
• Own cloud, vendor and outsourcing arrangements, where the board remains accountable for everything outsourced.

Skills

Software architecture

Backend systems

Cloud infrastructure

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

Job description

doit Holdings in Malaysia is seeking a CTO to own technology for our regulated investment platform. This build role requires delivering from architecture to systems evidence for registration under the SC guidelines.

You will lead the engineering team, drive reliability, security, and performance, and ensure secure development, testing, and acceptance. hybrid work from our Malaysia office with global teams.