IT Engineering Architect

Job Description:

Department Overview

Reporting to Rakuten Group, Inc. Corporate IT Infrastructure department supporting core business projects and efforts for office of the CIO.

Position:

Position Details

Corporate IT Infrastructure department is seeking a highly experienced IT engineering architect to join our team. This position will be the technical engineering lead for projects related to Rakuten’s core application development systems and toolsets. The ideal candidate would have a strong technical background, communicate effectively with executives, technology leaders and development teams. Additional responsibilities include reporting research and investigation results to executive management, presenting and recommending solutions to senior leaders, architects and engineers for core development tools and processes.

Key Responsibilities:

- Research and report on various technology-based investigations to CTO function

- Organize technical demonstrations and proof of concepts

- Technical lead for various projects and efforts related to new IT technologies

- Presentations for executive and internal technology leaders

Mandatory Qualifications:

- 7+ years of professional experience in the computer science field

- 3+ years application development experience

- Experience with application tools architecture

- SDLC architecture and process at enterprise scale

- Deployment architectures and process at enterprise scale

- IT and computer science background

- Codegen AI and AI assisted coding knowledge

- TOEIC: 800+

- Excellent communication skills

- Ability to work independently

Desired Qualifications:

- Japanese language and writing skills

- Project management skills

- ITIL certification

- Agile certification

- Familiarity with Atlassian products such as JIRA and Confluence

- Technical writing skills

- Experience with technical training

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