About the Role
A global enterprise platform provider seeks an exceptional Technical Architect / Lead Engineer to join their Professional Services division in Tokyo. This customer-facing role involves guiding major clients and SIs through complex, long-term ecosystem implementations, requiring strong technical design, OOP depth, and client negotiation skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical integration by collaborating with clients to define requirements, address bottlenecks, align designs with business goals, and author integration blueprints.
- Architect scalable and secure system integrations linking the cloud-native platform with legacy environments using enterprise frameworks.
- Manage enterprise data flow integrity and real-time data movement between core applications and external systems.
- Drive innovation through agile Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives to validate integration approaches and demonstrate technical capability.
- Act as a strategic feedback bridge, representing the client to internal engineering and product management teams, sharing regional product feedback.
Requirements
- Native/Fluent Japanese (JLPT N1 or equivalent) with understanding of Japanese business practices.
- Professional English skills (TOEIC 700+ or equivalent).
- 7+ years of combined experience in hands-on software development and IT consulting (minimum 3 years in each).
- Demonstrated success as a technical lead for large-scale enterprise deployments, managing the full lifecycle.
- 2+ years of hands-on object-oriented programming (e.g., Java, C#).
- 2+ years of experience with relational databases.
- Solid exposure to major cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
- Prior experience as the primary technical point of contact for clients post-go-live support, including upgrades and optimizations.
Skills
- Technical design
- Object-oriented programming
- Client consulting
- System integration
- Cloud-native platform integration
- Legacy system integration
- Enterprise frameworks
- Data pipeline integrity
- Real-time data flows
- Agile methodologies
- Proof of Concept (PoC) execution
- Financial services domain knowledge (preferred)
- Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance domain knowledge (preferred)
- Modern integration methods (REST, JSON-RPC, SOAP, MQ) (preferred)
- Microservices architecture (preferred)
- CI/CD delivery pipelines (Git, TeamCity) (preferred)
- Observability suites (Datadog) (preferred)
Location
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation based on experience, market standards, and interview performance.
Benefits
- Innovative work environment encouraging initiative and continuous improvement.
- Opportunity to solve real-world insurance problems at scale for large financial institutions.
- Low-bureaucracy structure empowering individuals.
- Collaboration with elite engineers, business analysts, and global product managers.
- Equal-opportunity workplace valuing diversity.
About the Company
- A global, tier-1 enterprise platform provider.
Equal Opportunity
- An equal-opportunity workplace that values diversity of perspective, culture, and experience as a core pillar of success.
