As the engineering leader for JKOU's data foundation, the Director ensures platforms are reliable, automated, and engineered for scale — enabling trusted, high-quality data across the organization's most critical business domains.
Responsibilities include
Own and lead ETL and data pipeline engineering for OU data products and platforms, setting technical direction and engineering standards.
Translate the data strategy into scalable engineering roadmaps, technical designs, and multi-year platform plans.
Design, build, and operate enterprise data platforms in alignment with global architecture standards, ensuring scalability and resilience.
Automate data pipelines and operations to maximize reliability and minimize manual effort.
Ensure CI/CD reliability, platform performance, and engineering excellence across the data estate.
Integrate local and system data sources, including bottler and partner data, into governed platforms.
Partner with data science, governance, and product management to deliver end-to-end data products.
Manage vendor engineering resources and partnerships, ensuring quality, cost-effectiveness, and delivery accountability.
Build, lead, and develop a data engineering team, fostering technical excellence and career growth.
Represent data engineering in OU data governance forums, advocating for platform standards, data quality, and architectural integrity.
Organizational Impact
Owns the engineered data foundation for OU analytics, AI, and data products, directly determining their reliability and scalability.
Leads a data engineering team and vendor partners, shaping engineering talent and capability for the OU.
Represents data engineering in governance and architecture forums, influencing OU-wide data standards.
Innovation & Complexity
Sets the technical direction for modern data engineering practices — automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code — to raise platform excellence across the OU.
Solves complex, ambiguous data integration challenges across system, bottler, and partner sources, often without established precedent.
Balances near-term delivery pressure with long-term architectural sustainability.
Communication & Influence
Communicates engineering strategy, trade-offs, and platform health to senior data and business leadership.
Coordinates across global platform teams, local stakeholders, and vendors to align priorities and resolve conflicts.
Represents data engineering in OU governance forums, influencing standards adopted across teams.
Candidate Profile
A senior data engineering leader with a track record of building and leading engineering teams, architecting platforms at scale, and translating strategy into reliable, automated systems. Combines deep technical expertise with the leadership and influence needed to represent data engineering in cross-functional governance.
Experience & Qualifications
10+ years of experience in data engineering, including ETL/ELT, data platforms, and pipeline operations, with demonstrated progression into leadership.
Proven experience building and leading data engineering teams.
Strong proficiency in modern data stacks (cloud data platforms, orchestration, CI/CD).
Experience designing scalable data architectures aligned with enterprise standards.
Experience representing engineering functions in governance or architecture review forums.
Experience with vendor management and Agile delivery.
Business-level English and Japanese required.
Skills
Location(s)
Japan
City/Cities
Tokyo
Travel Required
00% - 25%
Relocation Provided
No
Job Posting End Date
November 30, 2026
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