Engineering Director

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Job details

Company overview

We are a leading company operating in the life insurance industry in Japan. We provide life insurance products to individuals and businesses, helping policyholders prepare for unforeseen events. We offer a wide range of insurance products, which can be customized in terms of premiums and coverage. Additionally, we focus on proposing insurance plans tailored to our customers' needs and providing thorough after-sales service. We prioritize reliability and stability, ensuring appropriate risk management. Leveraging our extensive experience and expertise in the insurance industry, we aim to provide our customers with peace of mind and security.

Responsibilities

Responsible for a team that monitors, analyzes, design and develops applications. In charge of maintaining, supporting, and upgrading existing systems and applications needed to keep business running. Managing development projects to ensure they meet the company’s business requirements and goals, as well as working with other departments to establish their software needs. Main responsibilities:

• Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Leading complex projects that require a deep understanding of Java, Azure, and cloud-native applications.
• Excellent work experience in relevant areas and ability to visualize a solution and possible issues
• Communicating with stakeholders, business, and development teams to enable quality deliverables
• Experience managing effective software development methodologies & tools
• Experience managing both internal & 3rd party development/delivery teams, onsite & offshore.
• Experience delivering multi-channel customer experience initiatives on the PaaS platform.
• Ability and willingness to engage in all phases and levels of the delivery process
• Familiarity with leveraging Agile methodologies for development and delivery
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to cross-functionally in a fast-paced and rapidly changing work environment
• Identifies resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities
• Review deliverables prepared by the team before passing them to other teams
• Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures
• Identifies and manages project risks and issues.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Bilingual with strong communication skills to interact with all levels in the organization.
• At least Business level of Japanese & English.
• Around 10 years’ experience in Project Management and application development
• Around 5 years managing Java & Microservice projects. Experience leading a development team
• Strong customer-facing and communication skills
• Experience working within an established PMO process
• Experience managing 3rd party implementation vendors
• Have a thorough understanding of OOP, design patterns, and enterprise application integration, having a very strong Service Oriented Architecture and integration background
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills and ability to think through problems creatively
• Experience in design and development of highly scalable APIs and services that are used by web and mobile clients
• Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience with Cloud services like Azure
• Strong understanding of UX/UI, Microservices, Spring boot, JavaScript, ReactJS and NodeJS etc.
• Experience and understanding of Agile Project Methodologies
• Experience working both with onshore and offshore development teams and vendor management.

 Preferred qualifications: 

• Past experience in Life Insurance domain.

Salary

15 - 19 million yen

Location

Tokyo