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Digital transformation of business operations

Big Data Infrastructure Project Manager

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Brand FAST RETAILINGFAST RETAILING
Location Ariake Headquarters: UNIQLO CITY, 1-6-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Location may be changed to a location determined by the company, including overseas.
Update Apr, 28 2025

Job Description

Recruitment Background
Fast Retailing Group is currently promoting the "Ariake Project," a company-wide transformation to become a "Digital Consumer Retail Company" that transcends the traditional framework of a retailer. The Ariake Project is a company-wide reform project to transform the company into a "Digital Consumer Retail Company". In order to achieve this, the Digital Business Transformation Service Department is leading the transformation of the entire company, not only promoting globalization, cloud computing, and mobility by utilizing the latest technologies, but also as "aggressive IT", i.e., IT that generates profits. This position is for a project manager who will promote the development of Fast Retailing's centralized big data platform, Data Lake, as well as its stable operation and continuous development as a product and service.

■Department Overview
The mission of the Digital Business Transformation Service Department is to define the "ideal" business operations from the customer's perspective, and to lead and realize business transformation using the latest IT technologies. In order to realize the "Ariake Project", we are accelerating the in-house development of core systems centered on supply chain as well as EC and store systems. In addition to project managers, a wide range of human resources are active, including in-house development engineers, data scientists, and UI/UX designers.

Job Description
The successful candidate will lead the project management and service management of the data lake used as Fast Retailing's data centralization platform, from development to operation. You will build a platform that collects, stores, processes, and provides global x uniform data in a centralized manner for the world's top apparel company. You will be in charge of the very challenging task of coordinating requirements from various departments and realizing the evolution and stable operation of the platform while taking into consideration scope, schedule, cost, quality, and other factors.
Job Descriptions are subject to change within the scope of work related to each department of the headquarters as a result of departmental or organizational changes.

■Career Path
In addition to aiming to become a Team Manager or Dev-Lead by enhancing your expertise in a specific area, there are plenty of opportunities to move to other teams depending on your ability, aptitude, and motivation. We also offer a wide range of opportunities to work not only in Japan, but also in our overseas offices.

Qualifications

Required Experience, Skills, and Abilities
5+ years of experience as a PM or PMO for system development projects at a business or consulting company
More than 3 years of experience in back-end system development and operation (DB, API, etc.)
Experience in both waterfall and agile development
Knowledge of data engineering and big data processing
Business level English and Japanese communication skills

■Welcome experience, skills, and abilities
Experience in development and operation using GCP and BigQuery
Experience working in a multinational team
Experience in building frameworks and libraries that are commonly and universally used
Experience working with external partners and system integrators
Knowledge of automation technologies such as continuous integration and continuous deployment
Experience and understanding of testing methodologies and quality control
Experience with distributed systems, highly concurrent systems, and highly available systems
Experience and understanding of data management
Experience and understanding of data science

Reference information (a sampling of the technical elements we use)
Programming languages : Java, Python
Cloud infrastructure : GCP, AWS
Database : BigQuery
Development tools : Github, Slack, JIRA, Terraform, Jenkins

Work Condition

Company Name
Fast Retailing Corporation

Employment Type
Full-time (no fixed term, probationary period (3 months))

Annual salary
Annual salary range: 6,240,000 yen - 14,940,000 yen (monthly salary: 390,000 yen - 830,000 yen)
Commuting allowance, overtime allowance, etc. (*All in accordance with our company's regulations)
Bonuses: Semiannual bonus twice a year, year-end bonus (whether or not to be paid and the amount will be decided according to the company's performance and personnel evaluation)
Promotions: Twice a year (determined according to personnel evaluations)
We also welcome applications from those who would like to challenge themselves through opportunities at our company (annual salary of 5.8 million yen or more may be assigned depending on skills).
(Depending on your skills, you may be assigned an annual salary of 5.8 million or more).

Working hours
Flextime system or management supervisor
Flextime system
Standard working hours per day ... 8 hours, break ... 1 hour
Core time ... 9:00-14:00
Flexible hours ... 6:00-9:00 and 14:00-20:00 with overtime
Supervisors
Based on the working hours of the department to which the employee belongs, and left to the employee's decision

Vacations and Vacations
2 days off per week (Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays correspond to working days) Annual paid vacations, special/ congratulatory/condolence leave, childcare/nursing care leave system, etc.
In addition to paid vacations, special leave is granted in the first and second terms (the number of days granted varies depending on the employment status and the company to which the employee belongs).

Insurance
Social insurance (health insurance, employee pension, unemployment insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance, and nursing care insurance)

Benefits
Employee stock ownership system, Mutual aid association system, Affiliated welfare programs, Employee discount system, Cafeteria, Exclusive shuttle bus (for commuting to Ariake office), Defined contribution pension system

Others
We are actively recruiting mid-career workers for our group companies (Fast Retailing, UNIQLO, GU, etc.). We hope you will consider applying for this position after reviewing the following
-You may apply to multiple companies within the Fast Retailing Group at the same time. However, please note that even if you are selected for multiple companies, you will only be able to advance to the final round for one position at a time.
-We will consider your resume, interview evaluation, and other factors in the selection process and may offer you a position in another Fast Retailing Group company.
Smoking is not permitted on the premises or indoors, and there are no smoking rooms or other smoking areas.

Location

Ariake Headquarters: UNIQLO CITY, 1-6-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Location may be changed to other locations as determined by the company, including overseas.

OPEN MID-CAREER POSITIONS