Japanese Speaking Java Lead (in Tokyo)
Function
Cloud & Data EngineeringOur Company
We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job description
Hitachi Digital Services Japan, which is the HDS’s Japan country office, is strengthening its offshore engineering services leveraging development centers in Vietnam and India, building a global delivery structure that combines high quality and cost competitiveness.
What you’ll be doing
Onsite Client Management: Serve as the primary point of contact at the Japan office to gather requirements, lead meetings, and handle direct client communications.
Incident & Problem Solving: Receive client feedback, analyze system behavior, and actively reproduce cloud application bugs to determine solutions.
Team Leadership: Manage daily task assignments, coordinate workloads, and monitor the delivery progress of a 5-member development team.
Technical Mentoring: Provide technical direction and Java-based solutions to team members tackling complex engineering challenges.
System Operations: Perform regular system health checks, execute log investigations, and aggregate/analyze CSV data for reporting.
What you bring to the team
Language: JLPT N2 or above with native-level fluency (capable of independently structuring logical arguments, drafting formal emails, and presenting to Japanese clients).
Core Technology: Solid background and hands-on experience in Java Web Application development.
Cloud Platform: Practical knowledge of the AWS ecosystem (including EC2, RDS, ELB, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, S3, SQS, and CloudWatch).
Infrastructure Troubleshooting: Proficiency with basic Linux commands and system log investigation (Tomcat, Nginx, ELB).
Leadership & Work Style: Proven track record in team management, strong crisis-management skills, and the ability to work independently under high-pressure, office-first environments.
About us
We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.