What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Technology Officer (Canada) position at Access Softek?
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.
\n- 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
- 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
- Compensation commensurate with experience
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Paid home internet
About the Company:
Access Softek started developing software 30 years ago in Berkeley, California. Now, we have offices all over the United States and around the world, and are growing by the day! Our software is in use by over 350 financial institutions, helping them to reach millions of customers and shape communities across the country. In addition, we have a technical development and consulting division that works for companies like Google, Sony and Nintendo.