Technical Development Team Manager – Distributed Sys. (JR2503757 // JG23)
Technical Development Team Manager – Distributed Sys. (JR2503757 // JG23)
Job type:
Permanent
Specialization:
IT Management
Language Level:
English Level - Advanced (TOEIC 860),Japanese Level - Advanced (JLPT Level 1)
Location:
Sumida-Ku
Salary:
¥15,000,000.00 - ¥17,000,000.00 Yearly
Job Reference:
492880
A Global Insurance firm is seeking an experienced Technical Development Team Manager – Distributed Systems to lead a subject matter expert team, drive transformation and upgrade projects, and act as a future successor for senior leadership roles.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage subject matter expert team, providing direction, coaching, and motivation while ensuring collaboration with the engineering team, vendors, and internal stakeholders
- Oversee and execute transformation projects, with an immediate focus on technology upgrades. This will involve bringing an engineering mindset to solve problems and, in the long term, including application rationalization (slimming down from ~50 apps to 10–20 through consolidation and decommissioning)
- Deliver cloud migration initiatives, moving applications to AWS Cloud with a focus on scalable, cost-effective architectures
- Partner with user-facing and business teams to ensure seamless delivery of customer-facing systems
- Act as a bridge between management and technical teams, ensuring clear communication, problem-solving, and effective project execution
- Prepare to act as a successor to the current leadership role, with the ability to step up into a senior manager role in the future
- Maintain oversight of development standards, code quality, and best practices while ensuring security, compliance, and performance optimization
- Successful execution of application transformation and consolidation projects
- Smooth cloud migration delivery on AWS environments
- Building a strong, collaborative team culture, ensuring high productivity and retention
- Driving innovation and problem-solving across vendor and internal teams
- Acting as a trusted deputy to senior management, ready to assume higher responsibilities
Required Skills:
- 10+ years of IT/development experience, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership or team management capacity
- Proven track record delivering transformation/upgrade projects, ideally in insurance, financial services, or large-scale enterprise systems
- Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud services, serverless architecture, and database migration/tuning (Oracle, PostgreSQL)
- Background in Java, Spring Boot, Angular enterprise systems (hands-on not mandatory but strong technical understanding required)
- Experience working on application rationalization projects (merging/decommissioning apps)
- Strong people management skills with proven success leading Japanese engineering teams
Why should you apply?
- This is a long-term opportunity
- You will be working with international team members
- Learn new skills while working on a large-scale project
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, and so on
Services/Benefits: Social insurance, Employee Pension Scheme, Transportation
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