Situated in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd. is Rakuten's Asia Regional headquarters. Established in August 2012 as part of Rakuten's global expansion strategy, Rakuten Asia comprises various businesses that provide essential value-added services to Rakuten's global ecosystem. Through advertisement product development, product strategy, and data management, among others, Rakuten Asia is strengthening Rakuten Group's core competencies to take the lead in an increasingly digitalized world.

Rakuten Group, Inc. is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses, and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications to approximately 1.7 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has nearly 32,000 employees and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/

Department Overview

The Global Ad Technology Department (GATD) manages the whole of the advertising systems that power Rakuten. We are a cross-functional and data-driven organization working together in a diverse team spread across five countries: Japan, Singapore, India, China and UK. GATD Website: https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/feature/adtech/en/

To ensure the high system quality of each services and to increase engineers capability we are trying to seek full-time higher level Senior Software Architect to join our architect team. In this position, the Senior Software Architect on Horizontal Organization which called Tech Management Section. We are looking for an experienced Software Architect to make intuitive high level decisions for software development. You will see the "big picture" and create architectural approaches for software design and implementation to guide the development team under the whole GATD services group.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define functional and non-functional software requirements.
• Create detailed representations of software functions, UIs, and system interactions using industry-standard tools.
• Develop high-level architectural specifications aligned with business objectives and technical feasibility.
• Define and maintain development standards encompassing technology, workflow, coding, and deployment.
• Communicate architectural vision and technical guidelines to development teams.
• Provide technical oversight and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to standards.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical support to engineers.
• Ensure software meets quality attributes: security, maintainability, scalability, and performance.
• Oversee final review and approval of software before launch.
• Design and implement secure, scalable, and cost-effective Hybrid cloud solutions.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• At least 8 years of experience in software development including solution or technical architecture experience
• Strong knowledge in public cloud , preferably GCG with experience in GCP networking and security
• Experience in software development and coding in various languages, specifically to Java coding language.
• Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
• Excellent knowledge of UML and other modelling methods
• Excellent knowledge of API design and implementation
• Understanding of software quality assurance principles
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail
• High quality organizational and leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem solving ability
• Proactive self-starter with self-motivated mind
• Strong get-things-done mind with a sense of ownership

Desired Qualifications:

• Basic knowledge of digital marketing or advertising technologies - Ad serving, Ad tracking, DSP, SSP, DMP, Campaign Management, etc
• Experience with big data solutions and data pip-line and processing - Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka, etc
• Understanding Micro service architecture concepts and containerized applications
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS, JavaScript and UI/UX design
• Hybrid Cloud Architecture experience
• Experience in GCP Managed service like DataProc, Bigquery, Data Lake, GCS, DataStream etc

Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.