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We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The Team:
We are looking for a Technical Architect to drive delivery, technical coordination, and execution for a modern cloud-native object storage platform. This role combines engineering leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on technical guidance in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

The Role :
The modern object storage platform is a cloud-native system designed to store and manage large volumes of unstructured data via S3-compatible APIs. It is built on Kubernetes and integrates with Keycloak, Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed data services.

Candidate Profile:
The ideal candidate is technically strong, delivery-focused, and capable of balancing architecture, execution, and team growth. They are comfortable working across distributed systems, sprint planning, and stakeholder alignment.

What you'll bring:

Team Leadership & People Development
- Lead a development team delivering platform features and capabilities
- Set priorities, align sprint goals, and ensure delivery commitments
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and career development
- Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and collaboration
- Identify risks early and remove blockers

Technical Design & Delivery
- Lead technical design of platform features and integrations
- Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Review architecture and code changes
- Translate product requirements into technical plans
- Drive engineering best practices and observability
- Support root cause analysis for complex issues

Cross-functional Coordination
- Partner with Product Management on scope and priorities
- Collaborate with QA, DevOps, Security, and Support teams
- Coordinate with adjacent platform teams and services
- Represent the team in planning and architecture discussions

Execution Excellence & Quality
- Monitor delivery progress, velocity, and defect trends
- Ensure stories are well-defined and testable
- Maintain high standards across design, testing, and documentation
- Promote CI/CD, automation, and quality practices

What Success Looks Like?
- Features are delivered on schedule with high quality
- Low production defects and strong system reliability
- Dependencies identified and managed early
- Stable and predictable team velocity
- Team members grow in capability and ownership

Required qualifications and skills:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience leading engineering teams
- Strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native platforms
- Strong experience with Java, Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices
- Understanding of AWS S3 APIs and authentication
- Experience with Agile development practices
- Strong communication and decision-making skills

Preferred skills:
- Experience with object storage platforms and S3 systems
- Familiarity with Keycloak, Prometheus, Grafana
- Experience in observability and incident response
- Knowledge of enterprise storage and security practices

Core Competencies:
Technical Leadership: Guides design and implementation decisions
Execution Focus: Drives plans to completion and manages risk
Collaboration: Works effectively across teams
Coaching: Develops engineers through mentoring and feedback
Problem Solving: Handles ambiguity and complex technical issues.

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We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.