Technical Lead (Java, Banking)

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Job description

Role Summary 

We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader to support the modernization of a large-scale enterprise platform within a regulated financial services environment. The role will initially focus on engineering hygiene improvements, helping reduce technical complexity, improve maintainability, and establish stronger engineering practices. Beyond the initial stabilization and clean-up phase, the individual will play a key role in shaping the target architecture and guiding a phased modernization journey. This position requires a strong combination of technical leadership, architectural thinking, stakeholder management, and hands-on engineering experience 

Key Responsibilities 

Engineering Excellence & Platform Improvement 

• Lead engineering hygiene and code quality improvement initiatives 
• Assess and reduce technical debt across the application landscape 
• Define and implement improvements to:  

1. Engineering standards and practices 
2. Branching and version control strategy 
3. Release management processes 
4. Development lifecycle governance 

• Quality assurance and testing practices 
• Identify and prioritize quick wins that deliver immediate business and engineering value 

Modernization Strategy & Architecture 

• Contribute to the definition of target architecture and modernization roadmap 
• Assess application landscape, dependencies, integrations, and business-critical workflows 
• Recommend modernization approaches and implementation sequencing 
• Balance technical improvements with business priorities and operational constraints 
• Support phased transformation planning and execution 

Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory 

• Act as a trusted advisor to both technology and business stakeholders 
• Facilitate architecture reviews and decision-making sessions 
• Communicate technical findings in clear business language 
• Challenge assumptions and provide pragmatic recommendations 
• Build alignment across engineering, architecture, product, and business teams 

Technical Leadership 

• Provide technical direction and governance to delivery teams 
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices 
• Drive consistency, maintainability, and long-term sustainability 
• Ensure recommendations are actionable and aligned with strategic objectives

Your skills and experience

Required Experience 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience 
• Proven track record leading modernization or transformation initiatives for large enterprise applications 
• Strong software architecture and solution design expertise 
• Experience improving engineering practices within complex environments 
• Demonstrated success reducing technical debt and improving platform maintainability 
• Experience working within banking, financial services, fintech, insurance, or other regulated industries 

Technical Expertise 

The ideal candidate should have strong experience across multiple areas of the modern enterprise application landscape: 

• Deep expertise in Java-based enterprise applications and distributed systems 
• Strong understanding of modern application architectures and integration patterns 
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms and reducing technical debt 
• Strong database and data modelling knowledge, ideally within Oracle environments 
• Experience with messaging and event-driven architectures 
• Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks and API-driven architectures 
• Good understanding of application security, authentication and identity management 
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized platforms and cloud-native practices 
• Experience defining engineering standards, release strategies and development governance 
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software engineering tools and modern developer productivity practices is a strong advantage 

Stakeholder & Leadership Skills 

The successful candidate must be comfortable operating at both strategic and delivery levels. Key capabilities include: 

• Strong executive and stakeholder communication skills 
• Ability to influence technical and business decisions 
• Ability to translate technical complexity into business impact 
• Strong consulting mindset and problem-solving skills 
• Ability to drive consensus across multiple stakeholder groups 

Why you'll love working here

HR benefits

• Competitive salary
• Salary band per level are reviewed once per year
• 13th month salary pro rata depending on the employee’s length of service (within a calender year), paid with the December salary
• Monthly lunch allowance: 700,000 VND/employee
• Parking: GFT covers the monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes
• Performance evaluation is once per year, for 2 purposes:
     > Performance bonus   > Salary increments

Health care

• Private health insurance: including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for all permanent employees who pass 2-month probation.
• Optical: expense claim for eyewear
• Annual health check-ups.

Vacation

• Maximum 18-day vacation leave/year (with the ability to carry over 05 days till 31st March of the following year)
• Adding one more annual leave day for each two-year anniversary.

Healthy lifestyle

• Sports and hobby clubs: company has an annual fund for fitness activities, which is allocated per month as team’s vote.
• Range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk and beer on tap

Social

• Company townhall: each 6 weeks
• CSR activities: as per company’s CSR guideline
• Onsite tour/training courses at other GFT offices and client’s destination overseas (where applicable).