# Asia CTO & Global Cloud Leader **Company**: Manulife Financial Corporation **Location**: Hong Kong **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Category**: IT **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://manulife.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MFCJH_Jobs/job/Hong-Kong/Asia-Chief-Technology-Officer-and-Global-Cloud_JR26101130?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6a4c5c6e-aab ## Description The Asia CTO & Global Cloud leader is accountable for technology strategy, infrastructure, operational resilience, end-user technology and transformation across Asia, while owning Manulife’s global cloud environment and platform agenda. **Core accountabilities** **1. Asia technology leadership** - Serve as the senior technology executive for Asia and the principal technology adviser to Asia business and technology leadership. - Own the regional technology strategy, roadmap, investment priorities and execution outcomes across Asia markets. - Align enterprise standards with local market needs, regulatory expectations and country-specific operating constraints. - Own Asia technology governance, financial management for Infrastructure, workforce planning, risk management and audit readiness. - Lead cross-market prioritization and delivery of the Asia technology book of work in partnership with regional and global teams. **2. Global cloud strategy, engineering and environment ownership** - Own the full global Azure environment end to end, including strategy, architecture, engineering, landing zones, platform services, governance, operational readiness, resilience and lifecycle management. - Define and execute the enterprise cloud strategy across Azure, AWS and AliCloud, balancing speed, portability, cost, security and regulatory requirements. - Build and scale cloud-agnostic catalog items that can be deployed consistently across Azure, AWS and AliCloud, using common patterns, policy-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, automated controls and reusable engineering components. - Ensure catalog items deliver a consistent developer and operator experience while allowing provider-specific optimization where it creates clear business value. - Lead global cloud engineering, platform product management, landing-zone evolution, service onboarding, automation and cloud architecture standards. - Accelerate adoption of cloud-native services and the modernization of legacy hosting, databases and middleware. - Enable application portability, disaster recovery and multi-cloud resilience through repeatable patterns and tested capabilities. - Provide scalable cloud foundations for AI, data, digital and application modernization programs. **3. Infrastructure, networks and end-user services** - Lead the operation and modernization of Asia data centres, cloud infrastructure, storage, database and hosting services. - Own Asia network and connectivity services across cloud regions, data centres, colocation facilities, headquarters and branch locations. - Oversee regional carrier strategy, WAN, SD-WAN, corporate Wi-Fi, voice, call-centre technology, collaboration and endpoint services. - Deliver stable, secure and frictionless technology experiences for colleagues and business operations across Asia. - Drive data-centre exits, infrastructure simplification and migration to strategic cloud platforms. **4. Operations, automation and resilience** - Partner with the CISO and Global Operations Command Centre teams to embed security and operational requirements into cloud and infrastructure platforms from design through production. - Jointly drive automation of provisioning, configuration, monitoring, patching, vulnerability remediation, certificate management, backup, recovery and operational controls. - Ensure clean handoffs into GOCC, with clear service ownership, observability, runbooks, support models, service levels and escalation paths. - Lead resilience engineering across Asia and Global Cloud, including recovery testing, service mapping, cloud portability and protection of critical assets. - Maintain strong performance against technology risk, operational resilience, service reliability and regulatory commitments. **5. Technology transformation and modernization** - Lead major Asia and Global Cloud modernization programs, including cloud migration, data-centre exits, Oracle modernization, landing-zone expansion and infrastructure automation. - Drive a software-defined operating model using platform engineering, self-service, infrastructure-as-code and AI-enabled operations. - Reduce manual work, delivery lead time, technical debt and operational risk through standardized engineering patterns. - Establish outcome measures covering reliability, deployment speed, automation, cloud adoption, productivity, cost and risk reduction. **6. People and organizational leadership** - Lead a geographically distributed organization spanning Asia Infrastructure and Global Cloud. - Build a high-performing leadership team across cloud, infrastructure, networks, workplace technology, engineering, architecture, operations and transformation. - Develop future-ready skills in automation, platform engineering, AI-enabled operations, cloud architecture, resilience and commercial management. - Create a culture of accountability, customer focus, engineering excellence, inclusion and continuous improvement. - Strengthen succession, leadership depth and talent mobility across Asia and the global technology organization. **Success measures** - Business enablement: Asia priorities and global modernization programs are delivered with improved speed, scalability and stakeholder confidence. - Cloud platform: Azure is operated as a secure, resilient and efficient enterprise environment, while reusable catalog items are deployable across Azure, AWS and AliCloud. - Reliability and resilience: Critical services meet reliability, recovery and risk-tolerance expectations, with tested recovery and portability capabilities. - Automation: Provisioning, patching, monitoring, remediation and operational controls show measurable increases in automation and reduced manual effort. - Financial performance: Cloud and infrastructure spend is transparent and aligns to our Finops Practices. - Colleague experience: Infrastructure, network, voice and end-user services provide reliable and frictionless experiences across Asia. - Talent and leadership: The organization has strong leadership depth, critical cloud and automation skills, clear accountability and credible succession plans. **Candidate profile** - 15+ years of progressive technology leadership, including accountability for large-scale infrastructure and cloud organizations. - Demonstrated success leading multi-country technology services in Asia and operating across diverse regulatory environments. - Deep expertise in enterprise cloud, platform engineering, infrastructure, networks, operations, resilience, security-by-design and technology risk. - Experience owning a major hyperscale cloud environment and leading multi-cloud strategy across Azure, AWS and regional cloud platforms. - Proven ability to build reusable cloud products and catalogs, automate operations and drive adoption at enterprise scale. - Strong commercial and financial leadership, including FinOps, strategic sourcing, vendor governance and large investment portfolios. - Executive presence and the ability to influence senior business leaders, regulators, auditors and strategic partners. - Track record of building diverse, distributed teams and creating clear accountability across complex global operating models. **Leadership characteristics** - Enterprise-first leader with strong regional empathy and market awareness. - Consensus builder who aligns diverse global stakeholders and drives timely decisions. - Collaborative operator who enables shared accountability across regions, functions and platforms. - Outcome-focused decision-maker who balances value, speed, resilience, cost and risk. - Clear, candid communicator who translates complex choices into business implications. - Visible talent and change leader who simplifies, develops capability and empowers ownership. **When you join our team:** - We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want. - We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words. - As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see. ## Skills ### Required - cloud computing - platform engineering - infrastructure management - networking - operations management - resilience engineering - security-by-design - technology risk management - FinOps - strategic sourcing - vendor governance --- Source: [Apply at manulife.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://manulife.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MFCJH_Jobs/job/Hong-Kong/Asia-Chief-Technology-Officer-and-Global-Cloud_JR26101130?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)