What we are aiming for in Digital Transformation

The Osaka Bay Area is attracting more and more attention from all over the world, and further development is expected.
Many guests from Japan and abroad visit Universal Studios Japan and Osaka.
Under these circumstances, in order to enrich the experience value of Guests, we are aiming for dynamic and innovative DX to provide a seamless digital experience before, during, and after visiting the Park.
It is also a project collaboration with the head office in the United States, and there are many difficult challenges, but it is an opportunity to gain valuable experiences and careers that cannot be experienced elsewhere.

Energizing people and society with super entertaining creativity.

【JOB SUMMARY】

The Solutions Architect's role is to design application architecture for specified projects to meet security, performance, reliability, reusability, scalability, and maintainability requirements. Project work includes participating in and designing solution options to existing platforms, systems, applications and microservices. This individual will also be involved design of new systems and platforms. Responsible for leading technical discussions with stakeholders and others to drive decisions and solution design. Coach and guide agile delivery teams through technical solutions and work with product owners and product managers to implement end-to-end solutions. Maintain technical knowledge of UPR systems and act as a subject matter expert. Provide documentation and support to teams involved in the solution.

The Solutions Architect will have to work with cross functional teams that will include Product Owners, Data Architects, Delivery Teams, IT Security, DevOps, Infrastructure Teams and Agile Scrum Masters and others in the organization to succeed. Project work includes web applications, native mobile applications, microservices, DevOps, and platform design. This architect will have the opportunity to work on international enterprise multi park solutions.

【ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES】

Solution Design - Where applicable, architect, design/develop, and oversee implementation of end-to-end integrated solution. Be a subject matter expert for development teams as part of implementation. Document and maintain the organizations existing solutions architecture and technology portfolio; make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives. Review new and existing solutions design projects and procurement or outsourcing plans for compliance with standards and architectural plans. Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborate with Project Managers, vendors and IT stakeholders to provision estimates and develop overall implementation plan for installation, customization, and integration efforts. Model business and systems processes based on findings through use case scenarios, sequence diagrams, swaggers, workflow diagrams, and data models.

【REQUIREMENTS】

Language: Ability to use both Japanese and English in business is desirable

・Japanese_Advanced High and above_Professional working proficiency

・English_Advanced High and above_Professional working proficiency

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities (KSAs) required

· Lead or participate in major end-to-end business process re-engineering or business transformation initiatives.

· Hands-on experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into practical applications and operational solutions.

· Demonstrated ability to produce requirement artifacts: Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, data flow diagrams, UML modeling techniques include sequence, component, deployment and domain models.

· A background in software development with ability to code at some level and knowledge of APIs and SDKs.

· A technical architecture background. You understand at a high-level network design, routers, switches, firewalls, BGP, caching, SANs, servers, and operating systems form a part of the solution stack.

· Extensive experience in developing strategic systems architecture plans.

· Proven experience in system design and development.

· Proven experience in system and network design and development.

· Strong understanding of information processing principles and practices.

· Solid grounding in core enterprise applications

· Strong knowledge of software evaluation principles and practices.

· Proven project planning and management experience.

· Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.

· Demonstrable experience in solution architecture

· Demonstrable experience in integration solution design.

· Aptitude to work as change agent that believes in a continuous improvement approach.

· Excellence in visual communication using modeling languages such as UML.

· Comprehensive understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), continuous integration, agile software development methodologies, values and procedures.

· Excellence in architecture documentation skills.

· Strong experience with reverse proxies, web servers, gateways, service-oriented architectures, web services (REST), microservice patterns, service buses and integration patterns, security practices, database technologies.

· Proven experience with databases and data storage including NoSQL and SQL databases, along with in memory key value stores.

【Selection process】

・CV screening
・2-3 interviews (in both Japanese and English)

【Working hours】

9:00-17:45 (actual work 7 hours 45 minutes)
*Flexible work, no core time
*Remote work possible

【Holiday】

120 days off per year (average 10 days per month)

【LIFE at USJ】

Please see below for welfare benefits for working at Universal Studios Japan.