Head of Cloud (N2 Japanese OK)--(G24 // JR2503886)
Head of Cloud (N2 Japanese OK)--(G24 // JR2503886)
Job type:
Specialization:
IT Management
Language Level:
English Level - Advanced (TOEIC 860),Japanese Level - High Intermediate (JLPT Level 2)
Location:
Sumida-Ku
Salary:
¥17,000,000.00 - ¥20,000,000.00 Yearly
Job Reference:
486109
A world’s leading Insurance service provider, is looking for a talented & bilingual Head of Cloud – Governance & Controls to join the Cloud Division.
This role will be responsible for leading the Cloud organizational priorities within Japan, which includes Hybrid Cloud strategy and governance implementation, FinOps Practices, Cloud engineering solution implementations, DevOps enablement as well as Cloud adoption and education.
Responsibilities:
- Defines the overall cloud roadmap and strategy for Japan and objectives for Cloud Services and ensures communication of the objectives to the business and project teams
- Work closely with Global IS organization, Japan CIO Application Development teams and shared services organization to scope a Cloud First strategy that will enable transformation efforts within Japan
- Apply FinOps culture and practices including driving financial accountability and business value realization through cloud transformation as well as ensuring efficient AWS spend
- Advocates for efficiencies and value of cloud and Devops adoption with stakeholders in Japan. Translates complex cloud ideas, technology, and programs into language Japan teams can relate to
- Align with Global Cloud team on engineering solutions, DevOps capabilities and architectural patterns and look for applicability within Japan
- Follow a cloud governance framework that includes the centralized architecture, infrastructure, and security aspects and decentralized business applications, data and product aspects
- Advocates for reusable models/frameworks/ processes to onboard more applications and manage cloud knowledge and learning
- Oversees the cloud endto-end DevOps SDLC including configuration mgmt., continuous integration, continuous delivery, release engineering, and smart provisioning within Japan
- Implements best practices for governance, processes, and standards as defined by Global Cloud Services
- Partner closely with the Production Support and Service Delivery teams for ensure stable and efficient cloud operations
- Standardizes project delivery by developing an optimal delivery process that incorporates business requires with cloud best practices
- Develops and manages metrics and scorecards in line with industry best practices for cloud
- Collaborates with architecture, application development, engineering, and operation teams to ensure stability, performance and scalability of cloud offerings
- Drives planning discussions with strategic Cloud vendor partners to ensure optimized usage of cloud within region
- Provides thought leadership to optimize cloud operational cost
- Responsible for working with the IT leadership team on crossteam collaboration, next steps, sponsorship, and overall management of the Cloud in Japan
- Teams up with HR and Learning & Development to establish cloud role profiles and deploy relevant training and certifications to build cloud capabilities with workforce
- Supports the build of a modern IT organization through agile approaches
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree and at least 15 years of experience leading complex Software Engineering and Architecture initiatives, with a minimum of 7 years working in Cloud initiatives
- Experience working in the Insurance/Financial Services or largescale business operations, where uptime and continuous availability was critical
- Experience with Cloud strategy, public cloud architecture, cloud networking, security, compliance, migration factory and patterns primarily for AWS and or Azure
- Experience with enterprise applications and IT services, as well as software development, compliance and security, and IT operations disciplines
- Experience establishing and running governance models and frameworks
- Experience applying standards of cloud compliance to application design to achieve reliability
- Experience partnering with technology Managed Services/Vendors and managing SLAs
- Knowledge of cloud design patterns, cloud operations and cloud cost models with experience implementing best practices or suggested improvements
- At least 8 years of experience planning, developing, and managing departmental expense and capital budgets
- At least 8 years of experience directly managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing people as they work
Why should you apply:
- This is a long-term opportunity
- You will be working with international team members
- Learn new technologies and on large scale projects
Company Details: A leading international insurance organization operates in over 130 countries and jurisdictions, offering services to commercial, institutional, and individual clients through one of the most extensive global property and casualty insurance networks. In addition to general insurance, the organization is also a prominent provider of life insurance and retirement services in the United States. Its common stock is publicly traded on both the New York and Tokyo stock exchange.The group's Japan-based affiliate provides IT-related services to support the organization’s operations within the country.
Working Hours: 9:00 - 17:30 (Mon-Fri)
Working Style: Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day work from home)
Holidays: Saturday, Sunday, National Holidays, Year-end and New Year Holidays, 27 Paid Holidays every year (20 paid leaves, and 7 especial leaves)
Services/Benefits: Social insurance, Employee Pension Scheme, Transportation Fee
Interview Process: 3
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