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Senior Principal - Technology Strategy
Slalom
IT
Tokyo, Japan
Posted on Sep 2, 2024
- This is a position based in Tokyo, Japan, and requires a valid working visa and living within a commutable distance to the city.*
As a modernized technology company, our Slalom Technologists are disrupting the market and bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. We have passion for building strategies, solutions, and creative products to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds, and emerging technologies. Our Technology Strategists pull all the pieces together to enable our clients to successfully deliver strategic projects and technology transformations.
- We’re embedded in the Tokyo community, and we get to work with Japan’s Fortune 500 and mid-market enterprises using the latest technology to realize their visions
- We collaborate with our Slalom colleagues, our partners, our community, and our clients on opportunities we couldn’t have imagined
- With mentoring and coaching at the heart of our practice we get to take budding architects under our wings and help them realize their vision of being an Enterprise Architect or a Technology Strategist.
- Best of all, we’re forced to grow, and we're continuously challenged as technologies and our clients evolve ever faster.
- Identify and design enterprise technology solution options and capabilities that enable a client’s business outcomes—from key, focused enabling elements to enterprise-wide technology strategies
- Bridge the gap of mutual incomprehension that often exists between business and IT to drive meaningful business outcomes with technology solutions
- Speak the language of IT and business and communicate seamlessly between these groups
- Provide guidance and direction to create understanding around the current technical landscape and to design a future-state architecture
- Develop the roadmap and recommended priorities to help our clients achieve their future state and business outcomes
- Lead several complexity technology strategy projects (e.g., $1M+)
- Broad understanding of key and emerging technologies and how these technologies both work for and against each other and the value they possess
- A broad understanding of the technology landscape and architecture as it pertains to the business systems from customer-facing applications through to legacy systems (including ERP)
- An understanding of business strategy to develop and implement an effective and enabling technology strategy
- Capabilities to drive division-level solution design across multiple disciplines
- Development and execution experience with various architectures, technical solutions, people, and knowledge the ability to drive/influence organizational impacts, through alignment to of the business, guiding principles, governance, vendor relationships, funding approaches, etc.
- Experience working in multiple businesses, business domains, and industries
- Has abilities to build fostered trusted-advisor relationships at the senior director/VP level (e.g., VP of Technology, Chief Architect), and has developed emerging relationships with business leaders
- Fluency in Japanese and English
Slalom is a next-generation professional services company creating value at the intersection of business, technology, and humanity. With our fiercely human approach, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by over 700 technology partners, our nearly 12,000 team members in eight countries and 49 offices help people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We’re honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For nine years running. Learn more at slalom.com.