Senior Data Engineer

About Source Edge

Source Edge is a Tokyo-based, technology recruitment and career consulting company. We work with select number of client partners, helping them to find both local and global talent as they tackle the unique challenges of hiring in the Japan market. For our candidate partners, we strive to go the extra mile and provide transparency, timely updates and in-depth insights in to our clients and their hiring processes.

Who is our Client?

Our client is a leading payment platform in Japan. Our client has some impressive partnerships and is renowned for providing simple, instant experiences that limit the amount of hassle when shopping, not to mention having a fantastic web and mobile UI and UX.

They are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer in Japan.

THE TEAM

The team is diverse and predominantly English speaking. As a member of this team, you will work with modern technology to provide technical service around the company's business data, information, and derivatives. This service is a crucial part of our client's external surface and internal business intelligence.

What You Will Do...

The Senior Data Platform Engineer should be able to understand our client's business, and technical requirements and implement solutions accordingly. They should also have hands-on experience in application development, and in-depth knowledge of programming languages and data storage technologies. Duties and responsibilities include:

• Supporting the well-being of deployed data services.
• Enhancing the operation and monitoring facilities.
• Implement scalable data pipeline from various platforms, data warehouses, or 3rd party services.
• Following our client's business or technical initiatives, implement data solutions accordingly.
• Being a domain expert in data semantics, providing advisory on business intelligence requests.
• Managing reporting facilities; implementing and promoting self-service reporting tools.
• Performing evaluation of technology, POC, and feasibility analysis.
• Support and manage a growing team of Data Engineers

What You'll Need...

Mandatory Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related subject.
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong software development skills in OOP languages.
• Good knowledge of resource constraints analysis and performing tuning.
• Good knowledge of data structures.
• Strong knowledge and experience on various RDMS, NoSQL, and big data platforms including Cassandra, Kafka, DynamoDB, Postgres, Prefect, Airflow, etc...
• Able to follow SDLC methodologies, and deliver proper documentation.
• Effective communication skills, able to communicate project status and problems effectively.
• Creative yet detail-oriented, good at solving problems and deriving solutions.
• Willing to work in a dynamic environment and pick up new technologies.
• Experience leading a team of 3 or more engineers.

What Our Client Can Offer You...

• A competitive compensation and benefits package that is above average for the Tokyo market
• Largely English-speaking work environment
• Relocation to Japan
• A flexible working environment in a fast-growing fintech company with a modern technology stack
• Analytically minded, fast-paced, and supportive team, inspired by agile ways of working
• Opportunity to directly drive business results and clearly see how your work contributes to the business bottom line