Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job Description
Lead end-to-end project delivery, managing timelines, scope, risks, and budgets.
Apply Japanese project management standards to ensure quality and compliance.
Track and resolve issues, manage resource planning, and maintain performance goals.
Communicate effectively with Japanese stakeholders and internal teams.
Identify and mitigate delivery risks and scope changes proactively.
Ensure all deliverables meet quality, technical, and contractual expectations.
Maintain project documentation and reporting.
Qualifications & Experience
Extensive experience leading end-to-end software delivery projects for enterprise clients, ensuring successful execution from project initiation through deployment and post-production support.
Proven track record in managing project scope, quality, budget, resources, and schedules while consistently delivering projects on time and within budget.
Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),
software engineering practices, and project delivery methodologies.
Hands-on experience working in Agile environments, with solid knowledge and practical experience in Scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe or equivalent).
Demonstrated ability to identify, manage, and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple stakeholders and teams.
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
Strong leadership capability with experience managing cross-functional, multicultural, and distributed teams.
Fluency in both Japanese and English, with the ability to effectively communicate with clients, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
Japanese proficiency at JLPT N2 level or above is strongly preferred.
PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Scrum Master, or other relevant project management certifications are a plus.
About Us
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
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.
How we look after you
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.