Chief Architect

Role Overview

The Chief Architect is a senior leadership role responsible for defining and governing the overall technology and solution architecture strategy for FPT Thailand. This role ensures architectural excellence across delivery, pre-sales, and innovation initiatives, aligning technology solutions with client business objectives and FPT's regional growth strategy.

The Chief Architect will work closely with executive leadership, delivery heads, pre-sales teams, and client stakeholders to drive consistent, scalable, secure, and future-ready architectures across multiple industries, including Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Public Sector, and Enterprise.
Responsibilities
Architect Strategy & Governance

- Define and own the regional architecture of vision, principles, standards, and best practices.

- Establish and govern architecture frameworks (enterprise, solution, application, data, cloud, and integration).

- Ensure architectural consistency, scalability, security, and compliance across projects.

- Chair or lead Architecture Review Boards (ARB) for key deals and deliveries.

Pre-Sales & Client Engagement

- Act as a trusted advisor to clients, translating business challenges into end-to-end technology architectures.

- Lead architecture definition for complex and large-scale bids, RFPs, and strategic pursuits.

- Support sales and pre-sales teams in solution positioning, estimations, and technical risk assessment.

- Present architecture proposals to C-level and senior client stakeholders.

Delivery & Execution Excellence

- Partner with delivery teams to ensure architecture is practical, cost-effective, and deliverable.

- Provide architectural oversight during solution design, build, and deployment phases.

- Resolve complex technical issues and design trade-offs across programmes.

- Ensure alignment between architecture design and delivery execution.

Technology Leadership & Innovation

- Drive adoption of modern technologies including cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, APIs, DevOps, data platforms, AI/ML, and application modernization.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and define reference architectures and accelerators.

- Promote reuse of assets, frameworks, and platforms to improve delivery efficiency and quality.

- Partner with global FPT teams to leverage group-wide capabilities and innovations.

People & Capabilities Development

- Build, mentor, and grow a strong community of architects across the region.

- Define career paths, competency frameworks, and capability development plans for architects.

- Lead architecture knowledge sharing, communities of practice, and technical governance forums.

- Coach architects and senior technologists on stakeholder management and consultative skills.

Risk, Security & Compliance

- Ensure architectures adhere to security, regulatory, and compliance requirements relevant to client industries.

- Work closely with security, risk, and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design principles.

- Identify and mitigate architectural risks early in the solution of lifecycle.

Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.

- 15+ years of experience in IT, with significant experience in solution and enterprise architecture.

- Proven track record leading architecture for large-scale, complex, multi-year programmes.

- Strong experience across cloud, application architecture, integration, data, and security.

- Demonstrated experience in pre-sales, bid management, and client-facing architecture roles.

- Experience working across APAC markets and multicultural teams is highly desirable.

Technical Skills & Competencies

- Enterprise and Solution Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).

- Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.

- Application modernization, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.

- DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering concepts.

- Data architecture, analytics platf