Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position : Product Development Engineering
Job Location : Tokyo, Japan
Department : Japan Information Technology
The Company / Role Value Proposition
This company is a leading global life insurance and employee benefit company, with 90 million customers in over 60 countries. We are leading the global transformation of an industry we’ve long defined. Be a part of our remarkable journey - one in which you help to write the next century of innovation in insurance.
The Senior Product Development Engineering Lead has end to end responsibility, partnering with the business, on the technology strategy and roadmap including the implementation of modern technology to transform client and customer experiences.
Key Responsibilities :
- People Management - Managing full stack software engineers located in multiple countries, upskilling / reskilling, hiring / retention agenda and adoption of engineering culture
- Stakeholder Management - Managing key business stakeholders to deliver required technology capabilities to support the digital transformation agenda. Driving prioritization of the product backlog. This includes managing key vendors providing the resources, SaaS & other capabilities
- Technology Implementation – Collaborating with all parties including the business to deliver business results, as well as technology projects.
- Ways of Working – Adoption of the Agile ways of working in the software delivery lifecycle
- E2E Software Lifecycle Management (Architecture, Design, Development, Testing & Production)
- Driving the decisions and implementation of technology best practices, architecture and technology stack including adoption of cloud, AI / Data, and other relevant emerging technology that is fit-for-purpose.
- Driving architecture selection, software design, execution, and operations at the solution level, enabling the business to operationalize the day-to-day functions of the application / platform.
- Lead technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Partner with Product Family Executive on technology strategy aligned to business.
- Develop applications for business solutions.
- Conduct peer reviews of solution designs and related code, ensuring adherence to best practice guidelines and compliance with security and privacy mandates.
- Investigate and resolve escalated production management incidents, problems, and service requests.
- Ensure disaster recovery, privacy, and security are aligned to enable application / platform stability, including technology currency management.
- Partner with Cyber & IT Security, Data Analytics, Infrastructure, Global Risk Management, Compliance, and Internal Audit to provide the holistic provision of technology services including risks, controls and security, to the business.
Candidate Qualifications :
Education :
Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalentExperience :
10 - 15+ years in leading software engineering teams to drive digital transformation in financial services or technology domainExperience in developing and implementing applications using modern technology stack and patterns including cloud native patterns, public cloud (e.g. Microsoft Azure), AI / Big Data, API and web / mobile apps (Java / React)Prior experience in developing mission critical applications, highly resilient, secure and performant from scratch in a complex and regulated environments will be an added advantageProficiency in software development lifecycle including CI / CD, test driven development, domain driven design and Agile ways of workingStrong experience in driving digital transformation especially people and cultural transformationProven track record in partnering with the business to deliver mission critical transformation via Agile approachPartnering with business to delivery applications enhancements to support business prioritiesSkills and Competencies :
CompetenciesCommunication : Ability to influence and help communicate the organization’s direction and ensure results are achievedCollaboration : Proven track record of building collaborative partnerships and ability to operate effectively in a global environmentPeople Management : Inspiring, motivating and leading diverse and distributed teamsDiverse environment : Can-do attitude and ability to work in a high paced environmentTech StackDevelopment & Delivery Methods : Agile (Scaled Agile Framework)DevOps and CI / CD : Containers (Azure Kubernetes) CI / CD (Azure DevOps, Git, SonarQube) Scheduling Tools (Azure Scheduler)Development Frameworks and Languages : Microservices (Java, Springboot) UI & Web (ReactJS, HTML, Javascript) Mobile (Swift, Objective-C, React Native, Ionic Framework) Data Management : Database (SQL Server, Cosmos DB) APIs (Kong, APIC, APIM)Development Tools & Platforms : IDE (GitHub Copilot, VSCODE, IntelliJ) Cloud Platform (Microsoft Azure)Security and Monitoring : Secure Coding (Veracode) Authentication / Authorization (CA SiteMinder, MS Entra, PingOne) Log & Monitoring (Azure AppInsights, Elastic)If you are interested in this position or get more information on this,