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Job ID : 1620856 Date Updated : October 30th, 2026

Enterprise Architect for English speaker

Hiring Company Enterprise-size Fintech Company
Location Tokyo - 23 Wards
Job Type Permanent Full-time
Salary 10 million yen ~ 18 million yen

Work Style

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Job Description

As Enterprise Architect, you will define and lead the architectural direction across multiple product teams within the ERP organization. You will help create a more unified engineering organization by building alignment, setting architecture strategy, and influencing teams across countries and offices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and foster a community of architects and technical leads across ERP product teams.
  • Act as a chief facilitator, leading through influence across three countries and multiple offices.
  • Define the division-wide architecture vision and strategy, and drive its execution.
  • Mentor engineers in architecture and technical design.
  • Contribute to the creation and review of technical specifications and designs across the division.
  • Join the company-wide architects community and participate in central engineering initiatives.

General Requirements

Minimum Experience Level Over 10 years
Career Level Mid Career
Minimum English Level Business Level (Amount Used: English Only)
Minimum Japanese Level None
Minimum Education Level Technical/Vocational College
Visa Status Permission to work in Japan required

Required Skills

Required Skills & Experience

  • Architecture and systems design: strong knowledge of distributed systems patterns and domain-oriented microservices, with hands-on experience leading large-scale migration and refactoring projects.
  • Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency, resilient cloud-native systems, including multi-tenant data isolation, event-driven architectures, microservices, and API-first platform design.
  • Expertise in major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern CI/CD pipelines, including zero-downtime releases.
  • Experience with FinOps and large-scale cloud cost optimization.
  • Deep knowledge of API design and end-to-end API lifecycle ownership.
  • Proficiency in generative AI and advanced tools to streamline workflows and accelerate delivery, including hands-on experience establishing agentic workflows to improve engineering efficiency.
  • Hands-on experience structuring scalable data pipelines; working with transactional and analytical databases (SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases); and securely integrating AI/ML workflows into product features.
  • Experience designing and reviewing zero-trust architectures, with practical knowledge of compliance and secrets-management patterns.
  • Leadership and influence: experience coaching Staff/Principal Engineers, standardizing architecture, and facilitating alignment across teams.
  • Strong spoken and written English to ensure clarity and alignment across distributed, cross-functional teams. Communication skills are as important as technical expertise for this role.

Preferred Skills & Experience

  • A track record of leading architects and engineers in a mid-sized product company or a larger organization.
  • More than 10 years of experience in a software architect or similar role.

 

Job Location

  • Tokyo - 23 Wards

Work Conditions

Job Type Permanent Full-time
Salary 10 million yen ~ 18 million yen
Work Hours 9:30 - 18:30
Industry Internet, Web Services

Job Category

Company Details

Company Type Large Company (more than 300 employees)
Non-Japanese Ratio About half Japanese