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
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Define and own the regional architecture of vision, principles, standards, and best practices.
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Establish and govern architecture frameworks (enterprise, solution, application, data, cloud, and integration).
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Ensure architectural consistency, scalability, security, and compliance across projects.
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Chair or lead Architecture Review Boards (ARB) for key deals and deliveries.
Pre-Sales & Client Engagement
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Act as a trusted advisor to clients, translating business challenges into end-to-end technology architectures.
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Lead architecture definition for complex and large-scale bids, RFPs, and strategic pursuits.
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Support sales and pre-sales teams in solution positioning, estimations, and technical risk assessment.
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Present architecture proposals to C-level and senior client stakeholders.
Delivery & Execution Excellence
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Partner with delivery teams to ensure architecture is practical, cost-effective, and deliverable.
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Provide architectural oversight during solution design, build, and deployment phases.
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Resolve complex technical issues and design trade-offs across programmes.
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Ensure alignment between architecture design and delivery execution.
Technology Leadership & Innovation
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Drive adoption of modern technologies including cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, APIs, DevOps, data platforms, AI/ML, and application modernization.
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Evaluate emerging technologies and define reference architectures and accelerators.
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Promote reuse of assets, frameworks, and platforms to improve delivery efficiency and quality.
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Partner with global FPT teams to leverage group-wide capabilities and innovations.
People & Capabilities Development
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Build, mentor, and grow a strong community of architects across the region.
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Define career paths, competency frameworks, and capability development plans for architects.
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Lead architecture knowledge sharing, communities of practice, and technical governance forums.
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Coach architects and senior technologists on stakeholder management and consultative skills.
Risk, Security & Compliance
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Ensure architectures adhere to security, regulatory, and compliance requirements relevant to client industries.
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Work closely with security, risk, and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design principles.
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Identify and mitigate architectural risks early in the solution of lifecycle.
Requirements
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Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
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15+ years of experience in IT, with significant experience in solution and enterprise architecture.
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Proven track record leading architecture for large-scale, complex, multi-year programmes.
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Strong experience across cloud, application architecture, integration, data, and security.
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Demonstrated experience in pre-sales, bid management, and client-facing architecture roles.
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Experience working across APAC markets and multicultural teams is highly desirable.
Technical Skills & Competencies
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Enterprise and Solution Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
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Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
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Application modernization, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
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DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering concepts.
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Data architecture, analytics platforms, and AI/ML foundations.
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Strong understanding of security architecture and regulatory considerations.