System Engineer -System Development Department, Information Systems Division, Rakuten Life Insurance Co., Ltd.

Job Description:

Business Overview

The Rakuten Insurance Group continues to grow steadily, aiming to become the next pillar of Rakuten's FinTech business, following Rakuten Card, Rakuten Bank, and Rakuten Securities.

Rakuten Life Insurance is one of the core businesses within the Rakuten Insurance Group.
It offers a variety of insurance products, including simple term and whole life insurance, medical insurance, cancer insurance, dementia insurance, comprehensive insurance for younger generations, and group credit life insurance for housing loans.

The company provides multiple proposal channels, such as face-to-face agency channels operating nationwide and internet channels that leverage the extensive Rakuten membership base.

As a familiar and approachable life insurance company, and as an innovative life insurance provider utilizing the technological expertise of the Rakuten Group, Rakuten Life Insurance aims to deliver groundbreaking insurance solutions.

Examples of Initiatives:

- Launch of Rakuten Points rewards for policyholders

- Digital transformation of insurance underwriting operations using AI

　

Department Overview

Information Systems Division oversees the IT infrastructure of Rakuten Insurance group, maintaining the core insurance system. Moreover, we actively work to develop the new products and improve IT services through the technology, closely collaborating with the business.

Main assignment of IT Manager is the leader of the technology group (technology teams) who drive the team members for the high-quality system development.

Why Join Us?

- AI-Driven Innovation: Leverage Rakuten Group's strong AI drive to implement innovative proposals with cutting-edge AI technology.
- Strategic Influence: Our compact financial organization offers a unique opportunity to work closely with management strategy, directly linking IT strategy to company growth.
- Broad Impact & Growth: Our size ensures ample chances to take on diverse responsibilities and projects, fostering extensive professional growth.

Position:

Why We Hire

Additional resource for core insurance system replacement.

　

Position Details

Project Promotion and Application support in Rakuten Life Insurance IT division

- IT Lead for application group (multiple teams)

- Promote IT project

- Mentoring IT team members

- Vendor control

- Incident Troubleshooting

- Improvement proposal

- Cooperation with other teams

　

Work Environment

Employees: Approximately 20
Partner Companies: Approximately 100

Under the System Development Department, there are two groups: the Core System Development Group and the Agency/Web Development Group. Projects are driven forward in units consisting of several employees and several members from partner companies.

Mostly career professional

Windows / Linux

Mandatory Qualifications:

- Minimum 3 years' experience working in IT related technical areas

- Solid understanding of web-based systems, enterprise systems, network architectures

- Development language: PHP、JAVA、HTML/JavaScript etc.

- System experience on both Windows / Unix OS

- Communication Skill

- Problem-solving ability

- Japanese language Native or fluent

Desired Qualifications:

- ITEE certifications

- Supervisory position experience

- Experience of IT manager of insurance/financial industry

- Business English

　

Others Information:

Additional information on Location

Kudanshita

　

Additional information on Secondment

This position is a seconded position from Rakuten Group, Inc. to Rakuten Life Insurance Co., Ltd.

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Languages:

Japanese (Overall - 3 - Advanced)