Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Mobility Infrastructure

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.

Mobility Infrastructure is a team which defines/develops cloud infrastructure that enables Woven City’s service to the outside of Woven City. This team defines the entire architecture by grasping current As-Is architecture and re-architect to fit providing stable service.

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

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are looking for an experienced cloud infrastructure architect. This project is very challenging and involves onboarding complex and multi-disciplinary projects, and helping them evolve continuously. You will be in charge of the design and realisation of an infrastructure and collaborate with stakeholders closely to help seamlessly launch projects being conducted in multiple cities outside of Woven City. In addition, you will address technical debt within Woven City's cloud infrastructure and implement KAIZENs to ensure application portability.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Analyze current architecture and specify technical debts and common requirements among multiple product teams
• Design a grand cloud infrastructure that enables services to expand to outside of Woven City
• Negotiate with multiple technical teams and their architectures, drive the essential changes across multiple teams to bring the cloud infrastructure into service
• Architect and renovate the cloud infrastructure by accelerating technical debt elimination and creating benefits to the service teams

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in new product / service development projects as an infrastructure architect
• Proven skills and experiences in processes ranging from high level software architecture definition to operations
• A natural collaborator with a strong win-win mindset who can facilitate productive conflict, create and magnify outcomes exponentially for all parties involved
• Clear and effective communication, strong verbal and written presentation skills, including the ability to convey complex ideas in a simple way and to tailor key narrative and presentation styles fitting various audiences
• A wide range of technical knowledge and experience regarding large scale software development
• Proficiency in business level English

NICE TO HAVES:
• Patience in dealing with different cultures / languages ​​and different decision-making mechanisms and logic
• Excellent project management, organizational and communication skills, as well as a sense of urgency and personal drive to effectively and efficiently execute transactions
• Demonstrated professional experience in large-scale program management, ideally in digital transformation, AI implication, IoT, Smart-city, Smart-store, etc.
• Experience of development of IoT service product / big data platform / AI-based learning platform
• Proficiency in 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.