Technical Lead

harman· .JP3 Harman International Japan Co., Ltd.
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📍 Ariake - Tokyo, Japan

About this role

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

  • Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience
  • Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence
  • Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment

About the Role
We are looking for a Tech Lead to design/develop key projects for Harman Remote Vehicle Updating Service (OTA) and device management, which is the most advanced and proven solution for Automotive/Mobile OEMs and Suppliers. Having responsibility for designing, implementation/code
review, unit test of the system components and leading to improve technical level of team members, development environment. Integration of end-to-end solutions on automotive systems and operator networks provide high quality of technical experience and supporting to build CI/CD, automation test and development environment. Working closely with Project Managers, Solution Architects and
Development/QA team in Delivery Development team.
 

Your Team
Report to development manager located in Japan

What You Will Do
•    Design/development of automotive/mobile OTA E2E solution (Cloud/On-premise)
•    Contribute to clarify customer requirement and transfer to global teams
•    Transfer knowledge to QA/technical support through documentation and meeting
•    Writing code to develop customer feature, to improve our product, to deeply understand
technical feasibility etc.
•    Investigate and analyzing technical problems and making recommendations to improve
software quality
•    Improve technical level of team members and development environment
o Integrate OTA E2E solution on On-premise or Cloud Services
o Build CI/CD development environment
o Build automation testing environment

What You Need
•    Education: BSc. in Computer Science or equivalent
•    7+ years of work experience in development of Web application systems, services or Embedded OS platform using C, Java or modern programming language (C++, Python, JavaScript etc.)
•    Hands-on experience with tools like: Maven, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket
•    Linux hands-on, networking
•    Independent, experienced in learning new environments and assemble POC quickly,
experienced in working under pressure and deadlines
•    Independent and Self Motivated
•    Ability to work as a team member
•    Native level Japanese
•    Comprehensive English skills (meeting, reporting and collaboration)
What is Nice to Have
•    Experience with C/C++ development
•    Experience with development on Embedded OS software programming (Linux / Android / QNX)
•    Knowledge and experience in using: Spring Boot, JUnit, Cucumber
•    Experience with CI/CD related tools: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
•    Experience with modern web development: Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, REST API
•    Experience with scripting languages (Python, Shell, Groovy, Gradle)
•    Experience & knowledge of DB – Oracle/PostgreSQL, SQL, Elasticsearch
•    Experience with Cloud Services like AWS/Azure/GCP
What Makes You Eligible
•    Be willing to travel up to 10%, domestic and international travel

What We Offer 
•    We offer an authentic, diverse, equal, and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
•    You will work on products and services that touch people’s lives and will change the industrial standards, being a part of the transformations in our industry.
•    Our work environments are fast paced, challenging, empowering, collaborative, flexible and exciting.
•    We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
•    We offer competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs.
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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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