About the role
About the Opportunity
As the Head of Enterprise Applications, you will lead multidisciplinary teams across Engineering, Product, Data, DevOps, and Quality to deliver scalable, reliable, and innovative technology solutions. You will shape the future of enterprise platforms, build high-performing teams, and partner with business leaders to accelerate digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experiences across the organization.
Your main responsibility is
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization, including hiring, coaching, succession planning, and capability development.
- Drive product and platform engineering strategy, ensuring roadmaps, priorities, and delivery outcomes align with business goals.
- Establish and optimize modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native development, automation, and observability.
- Champion AI adoption and engineering innovation to improve productivity, delivery speed, and business outcomes.
- Oversee platform reliability, quality engineering, data operations, and technology governance to maintain secure and scalable systems.
- Manage key technology partners and vendors while ensuring strong engineering standards, knowledge transfer, and long-term platform sustainability.
About You
The Essentials
- Extensive experience leading enterprise engineering, platform, or technology organizations.
- Proven success driving engineering transformation, platform modernization, and large-scale delivery initiatives.
- Strong expertise in modern software development practices, cloud-native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering.
- Experience with ERP integrations, APIs, middleware, and enterprise data management.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and translate business requirements into technology solutions.
- Fluent English communication skills with experience working across diverse stakeholder groups.
The Attributes
- Strategic thinker with a strong focus on delivering business value through technology.
- Inspiring people leader who builds, develops, and retains high-performing teams.
- Results-oriented with strong execution, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
- Collaborative and influential, able to build strong partnerships across technical and non-technical teams.
- Passionate about innovation, continuous improvement, and emerging technologies including AI.
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable leading change in a dynamic environment.
Location: Asia (Vietnam preferred)
What You Will Enjoy
🎉 Culture: Join Discova and Flight Centre Travel Group—certified Great Place to Work® across multiple regions with a team culture like no other in the travel industry
🌏 Travel Discounts: Exclusive rates for you, family and friends on flights, hotels, tours, cruises, travel insurance and more
💎 Career Growth: Real opportunities across a global network of brands—we promote from within and invest in your development
🔧 Learning & Development: Access to LinkedIn Learning with 24,500+ courses; individualized development pathways
🎊 Recognition: Famous FCTG culture at Reward & Recognition events including Global Gathering and EOFY celebrations
👐🏽 Inclusive Workplace: We're an Equal Opportunity Employer welcoming diversity across race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and age
🙏🏼 Give Back: Corporate Social Responsibility program; paid parental and volunteer leave
💚 Sustainability: We're committed to protecting the environment essential to tourism's future
About Discova
As a DMC with 95% local staff, we pride ourselves on being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people can thrive as their most authentic selves. These values are intrinsic to Discova’s DNA as a company, and we are committed to being an equitable workplace for all our employees regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability or sexual orientation. We welcome you to our family as you are and who you are.
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