Technical Lead (Java, Banking)
On-siteHo Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam
Job Summary
Lead engineering hygiene and code quality initiatives to assess and reduce technical debt across the application landscape. Define improvements to engineering standards, branching strategies, release management, and QA practices while identifying quick wins for immediate value. Contribute to target architecture definition by analyzing dependencies and recommending modernization sequencing that balances technical improvements with business priorities. Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, facilitating reviews and communicating findings in clear business language to build alignment across engineering and product teams. Provide technical direction to delivery teams, mentoring engineers to promote best practices and long-term sustainability within a regulated financial services environment.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks and API-driven architectures
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software engineering tools and modern developer productivity practices
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