Chief Technology Officer

ABOUT THE ROLE Access Softek, a leading provider of digital banking platforms for financial institutions across the U.S., is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to define and lead the company's technology vision, architecture strategy, and long-term platform evolution. As a key executive role, the CTO will be responsible for ensuring technology is a core driver of business growth, product scalability, and operational resilience. WHAT YOU'LL DO As the CTO, you will partner with the CEO and executive leadership team to shape company strategy through technology, make high-impact architectural decisions, and ensure the organization is built to scale sustainably. Your responsibilities will include: - Owning the company's technology vision, architecture strategy, and long-term platform direction - Defining how the platform evolves, scales, and remains competitive over time - Translating business strategy into technology strategy, system architecture, and key technical trade-offs - Making executive-level decisions on platform design, modernization, and major technology investments - Ensuring end-to-end system architecture across products and services, with a focus on coherence, scalability, and maintainability - Driving long-term platform evolution, including legacy system strategy and architectural consolidation - Designing and evolving the engineering organization at the executive level, including leadership structure and scaling model - Overseeing technology risk, including system resilience, security architecture, and compliance (SOC2 and related standards) - Ensuring security and compliance are embedded into system design and engineering practices - Partnering with Product and Business leadership to align roadmap priorities with technical feasibility and long-term strategy - Aligning engineering investment and capacity with business goals and growth priorities - Overseeing system reliability, scalability, and observability strategy at the platform level - Evaluating and driving adoption of emerging technologies (including AI/automation) for strategic advantage - Leading the company's adoption of AI technologies and guiding its transition toward AI-driven products and operations - Providing executive-level visibility into platform health, risks, and architectural direction WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 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 WHY REMOTE Access Softek offers a remote work environment, allowing you to work from anywhere and maintain a healthy work-life balance. BENEFITS Access Softek offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: - Compensation commensurate with experience - 401(k) retirement savings plan - Life insurance, short-term and long-term disabilities insurance - Medical and dental insurance -