Lead Software Engineering, Japan Operations Technology

• Experience: Minimum 7 years of relevant technology experience, ideally in enterprise application development and support within a complex, global environment.
• Technical expertise: Strong hands-on development experience with Java is essential. Experience with databases, MQ, and Kafka is also required.  These technical skills are required to enable meeting Asia External Connectivity demand and lead strategic platform investment.  Require balance of short term vs long term mind-set to keep up with the business demand and ensure longer term platform improvement is achieved.
• Language: Strong business-level English communication skills are required. Japanese language capability is preferred but not mandatory.
• Stakeholder management: Demonstrated ability to build effective relationships and collaborate with both Technology and Business stakeholders across Japan, Asia Pacific, and globally.
• Technical leadership: Passionate about designing and delivering robust, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions. Proactive in taking ownership of challenges and independently managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Team leadership: Experience managing and developing a small team of approximately 2–3 developers, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to provide technical guidance and support when required.
• Delivery ownership: Comfortable engaging with Business stakeholders through both in-person and remote meetings to understand and translate business requirements into actionable deliverables. Able to create and manage Jira items, oversee development activities, and guide team members through the full SDLC.
• AI adoption: Able to effectively leverage AI-enabled tools and solutions to improve productivity and engineering efficiency, while applying sound judgment to validate outputs and determine appropriate use cases.
• Risk and escalation management: Capable of proactively identifying and managing technology risks and issues, and appropriately handling escalations with senior stakeholders.
• Production support and resilience: Demonstrates composure, sound judgment, and resilience during production incidents and outages. Able to serve as a key Technology point of contact for senior IT management and Business stakeholders, driving communication, coordination, and issue resolution.

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