Access Softek is a leading provider of digital banking platforms for financial institutions across the U.S.

We are seeking a Chief Technology Officer to define and lead the company’s technology vision, architecture strategy, and long-term platform evolution. This is an executive role responsible for ensuring technology is a core driver of business growth, product scalability, and operational resilience.

As 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.

What You'll own

Own the company’s technology vision, architecture strategy, and long-term platform direction

Define how the platform evolves, scales, and remains competitive over time

Translate business strategy into technology strategy, system architecture, and key technical trade-offs

Make executive-level decisions on platform design, modernization, and major technology investments

Own end-to-end system architecture across products and services, ensuring coherence, scalability, and maintainability

Drive long-term platform evolution, including legacy system strategy and architectural consolidation

Design and evolve the engineering organization at the executive level, including leadership structure and scaling model

Own technology risk, including system resilience, security architecture, and compliance (SOC2 and related standards)

Ensure security and compliance are embedded into system design and engineering practices

Partner with Product and Business leadership to align roadmap priorities with technical feasibility and long-term strategy

Align engineering investment and capacity with business goals and growth priorities

Oversee system reliability, scalability, and observability strategy at the platform level

Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies (including AI/automation) for strategic advantage

Lead the company’s adoption of AI technologies and guide its transition toward AI-driven products and operations

Provide executive-level visibility into platform health, risks, and architectural direction

Requirements

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

Our Benefits

Compensation commensurate with experience

401(k) retirement savings plan

Life insurance, short-term and long-term disabilities insurance

Medical and dental insurance

Paid vacation and sick leave

Paid home internet

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