Job Description
Career Opportunity for a Technical-Development Team Manager in Japan!
■ Technical-Development Team Manager
■ Company Overview
A leading global organization in the insurance and financial services sector, this company is known for offering comprehensive commercial and personal coverage solutions to businesses and individuals worldwide. With a strong international footprint and a robust property-and-casualty network, it consistently drives innovation and helps shape the future of the insurance industry. The organization is committed to supporting clients through uncertainty while fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, and empowerment for its people.
■ Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Technical / Development Team Manager to lead a team of subject matter experts and drive transformation and upgrade initiatives. This strategic, long-term role suits a bilingual technical leader who combines strong delivery expertise with people leadership, vendor coordination, and collaboration across IT and business teams, while preparing for future senior leadership responsibilities.
●Lead and manage a subject matter expert team, providing direction, coaching, and motivation while collaborating with engineering teams, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
●Drive technology transformation and upgrade initiatives, with an immediate focus on system upgrades and a long-term roadmap for application rationalization (consolidating ~50 applications to 10–20).
●Lead cloud migration projects to AWS, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures.
●Partner with business and user-facing teams to deliver stable, customer-facing systems.
●Act as a bridge between management and technical teams, ensuring clear communication and effective execution.
●Prepare to act as a successor to senior leadership, with readiness to step into a senior manager role.
●Ensure development standards, code quality, security, compliance, and performance optimization.
●Successful delivery of application transformation, consolidation, and cloud migration initiatives.
●Build and sustain a high-performing, collaborative team culture with strong retention.
●Drive innovation and problem-solving across internal teams and vendors.
●Serve as a trusted deputy to senior management.
■ Experience and Qualifications
●Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
●10+ years of IT/development experience, including 3–5 years in leadership or team management.
●Proven experience delivering transformation and upgrade projects, ideally within insurance, financial services, or large enterprise environments.
●Strong expertise in AWS Cloud, including serverless architectures and database migration/tuning (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
●Technical background in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular (hands-on experience not required, but strong technical understanding is essential).
●Experience with application rationalization (application merging and decommissioning).
●Strong people management skills, with experience leading Japanese engineering teams.
●Bilingual proficiency: Japanese (N1/N2) and English (business fluent).
■ Good Reasons to Join
●Strategic role driving application transformation and AWS cloud migration.
●Clear succession path to senior leadership.
●High visibility working with business, engineering, and vendor teams.
●Opportunity to shape both technology strategy and team growth within a stable global organization.
■ Work Location
Tokyo, Japan- Hybrid
Details will be provided during the meeting.