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Head of Data & Context Engineering | Global Life Insurer
| Hiring Company | global life insurance company |
| Location | Tokyo - 23 Wards |
| Job Type | Permanent Full-time |
| Salary | 10 million yen ~ 14 million yen |
Job Description
This is a hands-on leadership role to build the company’s data and context engineering capability from scratch on a modern cloud and AI stack. You will build and lead an in-house team, run the data platform as a product, and build data governance into the platform itself. You will partner with senior leadership, the Technology department and Regional and Global Data & AI teams on data strategy and execution.
General Requirements
| Minimum Experience Level | Over 10 years |
| Career Level | Mid Career |
| Minimum English Level | Business Level |
| Minimum Japanese Level | Business Level |
| Minimum Education Level | Bachelor's Degree |
| Visa Status | Permission to work in Japan required |
Required Skills
- Build and lead an in-house data and context engineering team: hiring, development and engineering standards
- Own the data platform as a product: self-service data, data catalog and fast access
- Build governance into the platform: access, lineage, data quality and policy enforced automatically
- Run DataOps: CI/CD, test automation and infrastructure as code
- With the AI team, build the context layer for AI agents: semantic layer, core metrics and metadata
- Engage senior leadership on data strategy and work with regional and global teams on architecture and standards
Required Skills
- 10+ years in data engineering or data platforms, including 5+ years leading engineering teams
- Experience building an in-house data engineering team and culture
- Experience running an enterprise cloud data platform (Azure, Databricks or equivalent)
- CI/CD, test automation and infrastructure as code applied to data
- Experience building governance into a platform (access, lineage, data quality, policy as code)
- Data architecture for AI (semantic, metadata and ontology layers)
- Business-level Japanese and English
Job Location
- Tokyo - 23 Wards
Work Conditions
| Job Type | Permanent Full-time |
| Salary | 10 million yen ~ 14 million yen |
| Industry | Insurance |
