We are supporting a leading international travel and destination management business in the search for a Head of Enterprise Applications to lead its technology transformation and build a modern, self-sufficient engineering organisation across Asia.

Key Responsibilities

Build, lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organisation across Engineering, Product, Data, DevOps and Quality.
Drive engineering culture, capability development, performance and succession planning.
Own Product Owners, product roadmaps, prioritisation, discovery, backlogs and product lifecycle management.
Lead platform engineering, including developer platforms, CI/CD, internal tooling, infrastructure, self-service capabilities and release automation.
Drive modern DevOps practices, including deployment automation, environment strategy, GitOps, feature flags, rollback, blue-green and canary releases.
Establish strong quality engineering practices across test automation, regression, performance, security and continuous testing.
Implement observability and operational excellence across monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, incident response and platform availability.
Drive AI engineering initiatives, including AI coding assistants, internal copilots, LLM integrations, prompt libraries and agent deployment.
Lead ERP and enterprise application integrations, particularly Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O, APIs and middleware.
Oversee data migration, cleansing, reconciliation, data quality and source-of-truth operations.
Reduce technical debt through refactoring, upgrades, legacy-system retirement and architecture improvements.
Contribute to technology strategy, architecture evolution and engineering roadmaps.
Establish engineering governance, secure SDLC practices, architecture standards and engineering KPIs.
Manage external technology vendors and delivery partners, ensuring delivery quality, SLAs, knowledge transfer and long-term internal capability.

What We're Looking For

Proven experience leading engineering transformation and building high-performing engineering organisations.
Strong experience leading large and/or distributed engineering teams.
Strong knowledge of modern SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps and cloud-native engineering.
Hands-on understanding of platform engineering and developer experience.
Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, middleware, observability and operational excellence.
Experience with ERP integrations, ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O.
Experience with data migration, data cleansing and source-of-truth design.
Experience with quality engineering, automated testing and continuous testing.
Exposure to AI engineering, LLM integrations, copilots or AI agents.
Strong experience managing external vendors, technology partners and delivery providers.
Excellent stakeholder management and ability to translate business requirements into technology priorities.
Fluent English.

Nice to Have

Experience within travel, tourism, DMC or hospitality.
Experience with multi-country technology rollouts and complex cutovers.
Previous experience establishing platform-engineering or AI-engineering practices.
Vietnamese language capability.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related discipline.

Role Details

Position: Head of Enterprise Applications
Employment: Permanent, full-time
Work Arrangement: Onsite at Ho Chi Minh Office
Scope: Engineering, Product, Data, DevOps, Quality, Product Owners, Data Analyst & DBA
Reporting to: Chief Information Officer