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About the Role
The AP Consulting Technology Practice is seeking a Consulting Manager to lead the technology consulting team in Japan. This role involves scaling delivery capabilities, deploying expertise to customer engagements, and ensuring high-quality outcomes across complex technology programs. You will guide delivery across various technical domains, build team capabilities, strengthen partner-enabled delivery, and contribute to services growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Japan technology consulting team, translating AP Consulting strategy into clear priorities, capability plans and practical execution.
- Guide complex technology programs by aligning consultant assignments, capacity, technical governance, architecture decisions and project priorities.
- Act as a technical escalation point, bringing together consultants, subject matter experts, partners and leaders to resolve delivery roadblocks.
- Build a scalable delivery model using internal and partner resources, supported by capacity planning, demand forecasting and clear skills visibility.
- Partner with Sales, Business Development, Customer Advisory, country consulting leaders and project teams on solution positioning, estimation, pre-sales activity and customer outcomes.
- Manage portfolio risks, dependencies, capability gaps and delivery constraints while supporting quality, customer satisfaction, utilization and planned margins.
- Coach and develop consultants through structured development plans, cross-skilling, knowledge sharing and reusable delivery assets.
Requirements
- Experience leading technology consulting or professional services teams in Japan, with regional or global collaboration.
- Hands-on experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect on large, complex customer programs, including multi-workstream delivery.
- Experience delivering enterprise technology solutions involving solution architecture, data engineering, platforms, decisioning, DevOps or related components.
- Experience with portfolio delivery, capacity planning, resource deployment, risk management and partner-assisted delivery models.
- Ability to guide technical decisions, remove delivery roadblocks and communicate clearly with customers, consultants and senior stakeholders.
- Native-level Japanese and business-level English, with strong presentation, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
- An equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered.
Skills
- Solution architecture
- SAS Decisioning
- SAS Data Engineering
- SAS Platform & Solutions
- DevOps
- Portfolio delivery
- Capacity planning
- Resource deployment
- Risk management
- Partner-assisted delivery
- Presentation skills
- Facilitation skills
- Stakeholder engagement skills
Location
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Manager
About the Company
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- We're recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.
Equal Opportunity
- At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.