Senior System Architect, Cross-Product Alignment

Tokyo

Woven City – Engineering Hub /

Employee /

Hybrid

About Woven by Toyota

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.

Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

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TEAM

Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all.

We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city.

The Engineering Hub Function leads technical cross-functional activities from the entire "Woven City" perspective. Our team, as one of sub-Function of Engineering Hub, supports internal developers in terms of development cycle, release, coordination over several development teams. We make standards, guidelines for the development cycle, and technically lead several teams in order to make synergy over them.

We are seeking talented people to join us as we take on new challenges to create new products and services for the Toyota Woven City.

For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for an experienced Senior System Architect.

The scope of this project is broad and challenging. You will be in charge of aligning entire development teams and enhancement or improvement of our entire development teams. You will work with stakeholders to identify problems of software architecture and requirements, set high level schedules and milestones, identify risks, and coordinate with cross-functional partners both within the company and externally. You will apply agile methods and best practices to maximize the velocity of your projects and meet customer needs. You are ultimately responsible for aligning and leading several stakeholders and delivering their successful execution while technical issue solving.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Integrate multiple product development teams and define and implement activities with ownership to improve organization as a whole for overall optimization as system architect
Work with many development and business teams to identify root cause of problem, set high level schedules and milestones, identify risks, communicate clearly with partners, and lead the technical issue solving
Contribute to development of the city with technical expertise by designing appropriate roles and responsibilities across multiple development teams and leading solving technical problems
Partner with many development teams and business teams, actively liaison as a bridge and manage the project smoothly
Follow changing technologies and continuously understand all the elements necessary for development. Not only software, but also hardware, research, UX and business
Be responsible for the success of the cross-functional task force project in charge

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of successfully leading or managing new product / service development projects with technical professionality.
Numerous experiences improving and problem solving projects based on technical expertise
Experience in project management. Also, experience leading a team as a technical lead
A wide range of technical knowledge and experience regarding large scale software development
Experience in software development processes ranging from high level software architecture definition to operations
Communicate clearly and effectively, displaying strong verbal and written presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex ideas in a simple way and to tailor key narrative and presentation styles to multiple audiences.
Ability to communicate smoothly, both verbally and in writing, with members and stakeholders who have diverse opinions

NICE TO HAVES

Excellent project management, organizational skills, and communication skills, with a sense of urgency and the ability to take action to execute transactions effectively and efficiently.
Experience developing IoT service products, big data platforms, and AI learning platforms
Experience and knowledge of enterprise software development in Java/C#/C++/C/(or languages equivalent to mission-critical systems)
Experience of large-scale agile projects
Problem-solving skills, troubleshooting and effective debugging skills.
Experience of incident management
Business-level Japanese

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Important Points

・All interviews will be arranged via Google Meet, unless otherwise stated.

・The same job descriptions are available in both English and Japanese; therefore, we kindly ask that you apply to only one version.

・We kindly request that you submit your resume in English, if possible. However, Japanese resumes are also acceptable. Please note that, depending on the English proficiency requirements of the role, we may request an English version of your resume later in the process.

WHAT WE OFFER

・Competitive Salary - Based on experience

・Work Hours - Flexible working time

・Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)

・Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)

・Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company

・Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance

・Housing Allowance

・Retirement Benefits

・Rental Cars Support

・In-house Training Program (software study/language study)

Our Commitment

・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.

・Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.

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