Chief Technology Officer

Access Softek is a leading provider of digital banking platforms for financial institutions across the U.S. They are seeking a Chief Technology Officer to define and lead the company's technology vision, architecture strategy, and platform evolution, ensuring technology drives business growth, scalability, and operational resilience.

Location: Remote (US)

Responsibilities

• Own the company’s technology vision, architecture strategy, and long-term platform direction
• Define how the platform evolves, scales, and remains competitive over time
• Translate business strategy into technology strategy, system architecture, and key technical trade-offs
• Make executive-level decisions on platform design, modernization, and major technology investments
• Own end-to-end system architecture across products and services, ensuring coherence, scalability, and maintainability
• Drive long-term platform evolution, including legacy system strategy and architectural consolidation
• Design and evolve the engineering organization at the executive level, including leadership structure and scaling model
• Own technology risk, including system resilience, security architecture, and compliance (SOC2 and related standards)
• Ensure security and compliance are embedded into system design and engineering practices
• Partner with Product and Business leadership to align roadmap priorities with technical feasibility and long-term strategy
• Align engineering investment and capacity with business goals and growth priorities
• Oversee system reliability, scalability, and observability strategy at the platform level
• Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies (including AI/automation) for strategic advantage
• Lead the company’s adoption of AI technologies and guide its transition toward AI-driven products and operations
• Provide executive-level visibility into platform health, risks, and architectural direction

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership
• Proven experience as a CTO or equivalent executive technology leader in a scaling SaaS or platform company
• Strong track record of owning architecture and platform evolution in large-scale, production systems
• Experience leading and scaling distributed engineering organizations through growth and transformation
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and platform engineering principles
• Experience operating in regulated or security-critical environments (e.g., fintech, enterprise SaaS)
• Strong executive communication skills with ability to influence CEO and senior leadership decisions
• Demonstrated ability to operate at system, architecture, and business-strategy level
• Strong judgment in balancing speed, scalability, risk, and long-term technical investment

Benefits

• Compensation commensurate with experience
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Life insurance, short-term and long-term disabilities insurance
• Medical and dental insurance
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Paid home internet