Job Description

Career Opportunity for Operations Full Stack Developer in Japan!

■ Operations Full Stack Developer

■ Company Overview

A leading global insurance organization with over 100 years of experience, providing a wide range of services including property & casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and financial services across 80+ countries. The organization helps businesses and individuals manage risk, protect assets, and plan for long-term financial security.  

The Policy Administration System Development Lead is responsible for overseeing the development, enhancement, and maintenance of the company’s existing policy administration system. This role plays a key part in ensuring the system supports business-as-usual(BAU) operations, regulatory compliance, and the introduction of new general insurance products. Working closely with business users, IT teams, and third-party vendors, the lead ensures that system changes are delivered efficiently, meet business needs, and maintain high levels of system performance and reliability.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

●Lead and manage ongoing development activities for the existing policy administration system, including BAU enhancements, defect fixes, and technical upgrades

●Plan, coordinate, and deliver system changes required to support new product launches, regulatory compliance, and operational improvements.

●Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and validate system requirements for enhancements and changes.

●Manage a team of business analysts, developers, testers, and vendor partners to execute the system development roadmap.

●Ensure system changes are well-documented and aligned with enterprise architecture and IT standards.

●Coordinate release management and deployment planning across business and IT functions.

●Monitor system performance and proactively identify areas for optimization and improvement.

●Provide leadership and technical guidance for issue resolution, root cause analysis, and incident management

■ Experience and Qualifications

●Bachelor of Science Degree – Computer Science or related field is preferred

●Project management certification is a plus

●Additional certifications related to insurance technology platforms or enterprise architecture are advantageous

●Speak Japanese and English

●10+ years of overall experience in insurance, technology, or business transformation roles

●5+ years of direct experience leading large-scale policy administration system implementation or transformations

●Successful end-to-end software design and implementation experience

●Good understanding of SDLC and should have experience in all the phases of SDLC

●Financial Service Industry – Should have a good understanding of critical Insurance processes or willing to learn insurance operations and business processes

●High level understanding of infrastructure, database management technologies, and networking.

■ Good Reasons to Join

●Be part of a globally reputed insurance leader with 100+ years of legacy and presence in 80+ countries
●Opportunity to lead large-scale policy administration system transformations and product launches
●Strong leadership exposure managing cross-functional and global teams

●Work on high-impact projects involving regulatory, operational, and digital transformation

●Excellent career growth into senior leadership roles in insurance and technology

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
Interested? Apply now or reach out to me directly at kanika.pal@talisman-corporation.com !

Details will be provided during the meeting.