Enterprise Architect, ERP Cross-Functional Engineering Department, Tokyo

**About the company:** Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo Money Forward is a fintech startup delivering tools to visualize and improve both individuals'​ and companies'​ financial health. **Responsibilities:** Build a community of architects and technical leads across ERP product teams Become the chief facilitator that will lead by influence across three countries and multiple offices Provide division-wide architecture vision, strategy, and execution Mentor engineers in architecture and technical design Contribute to the creation and review of technical specs/design across the division Join company-wide architects community and participate to central initiatives Requirements Architecture and systems design: distributed systems patterns, design of domain-oriented microservices, hands-on experience leading large-scale migration/refactor projects Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency, resilient cloud-native systems. Expertise in multi-tenant data isolation, event-driven architectures, microservices, and API-first platform design. Mastery of major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern deployment pipelines (CI/CD, zero-downtime releases). That includes finops and cost optimization experience at large scale. API platform and connectivity: deep knowledge of API design, end-to-end API lifecycle ownership Proficient in leveraging generative AI and advanced tooling to streamline workflows and accelerate delivery. Have proven hands-on experience setting up agentic workflow to increase engineering efficiency. Hands-on experience structuring scalable data pipelines, transactional vs. analytical databases (SQL/NoSQL/Vector), and integrating AI/ML workflows securely into product feature sets. Security and compliance: design and review of zero-trust architectures, practical compliance experience, secret management patterns Leadership and influence experience, track record of coaching Staff/Principal Engineers and standardizing architecture, strong facilitation skills Strong verbal and written English skills to ensure clarity and alignment across distributed, cross-functional teams. Communication ability is equally important than the technical skills expected for the role. Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Proven track record of leading architects and engineers in a mid-size product company or larger company Over ten years of experience in an software architect role or similar position Japanese ability Compensation ¥13,008,000 ~ ¥18,000,000 annually. **Requirements:** Architecture and systems design: distributed systems patterns, design of domain-oriented microservices, hands-on experience leading large-scale migration/refactor projects Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency, resilient cloud-native systems. Expertise in multi-tenant data isolation, event-driven architectures, microservices, and API-first platform design. Mastery of major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern deployment pipelines (CI/CD, zero-downtime releases). That includes finops and cost optimization experience at large scale. API platform and connectivity: deep knowledge of API design, end-to-end API lifecycle ownership Proficient in leveraging generative AI and advanced tooling to streamline workflows and accelerate delivery. Have proven hands-on experience setting up agentic workflow to increase engineering efficiency. Hands-on experience structuring scalable data pipelines, transactional vs. analytical databases (SQL/NoSQL/Vector), and integrating AI/ML workflows securely into product feature sets. Security and compliance: design and review of zero-trust architectures, practical compliance experience, secret management patterns Leadership and influence experience, track record of coaching Staff/Principal Engineers and standardizing architecture, strong facilitation skills Strong verbal and written English skills to ensure clarity and alignment across distributed, cross-functional teams. Communication ability is equally important than the technical skills expected for the role. **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Proven track record of leading architects and engineers in a mid-size product company or larger company Over ten years of experience in an software architect role or similar position Japanese ability **Compensation:** ¥13,008,000 ~ ¥18,000,000 annually.