JOB ID 28250

Data Platform Engineer – Manufacturing DX

  • Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
  • IT, Other (Localization, QA), Network, Infrastructure engineer, Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
  • Kanagawa
  • ¥6,000,000~¥8,000,000

This company is a global technology leader driving major innovation in the rapidly evolving mobility industry. With active development across electrification, autonomous systems, connected services, and software‑defined mobility, the organization is advancing large‑scale digital transformation on a worldwide scale. Employees work in a diverse, international environment where they can take on meaningful responsibility, collaborate across regions, and contribute directly to next‑generation mobility solutions.

A major Japanese manufacturing company is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to support the development and expansion of a centralized production data platform.

The position focuses on integrating manufacturing, equipment, process, and quality data from multiple systems into a secure, scalable environment that supports business intelligence, advanced analytics, and future AI applications.

You will be involved in database design, data integration, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) development, system implementation, and ongoing operations, working with manufacturing teams and IT specialists to improve data accessibility, quality, and reliability.

This is an opportunity to contribute to manufacturing digital transformation while developing expertise across databases, software engineering, data architecture, and data security.

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Job Description

  • Responsibilities
    ・Design, develop, and maintain databases, data lakes, and data warehouses for manufacturing and quality information.
    ・Collect, transform, and integrate data from production systems, manufacturing equipment, MES, file storage, and other internal platforms.
    ・Develop ETL pipelines, batch processes, and system integrations using SQL, Python, APIs, and related technologies.
    ・Improve data models, data quality, traceability, system performance, and standardization across manufacturing sites.
    ・Establish secure and reliable data environments for business intelligence, analytics, and future AI and machine learning applications.
    ・Support system deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, backups, and ongoing operational improvements.
    ・Collaborate with manufacturing departments, IT infrastructure and security teams, and external vendors to define requirements and deliver projects.
    ・Participate in team-based software development using Git, code reviews, CI/CD, and agile development practices.
    ・Depending on experience, support project coordination, technical standardization, and mentoring of team members.
  • Requirements
    ・Ability to gather stakeholder needs and translate them into clear system requirements and specifications.
    ・Experience developing systems or software as part of a team.
    ・Practical SQL skills for data extraction and transformation, together with fundamental relational database knowledge.
    ・Experience in at least one of the following: Database requirements definition, design, implementation, or performance optimization.
    ・Database or data platform operations, maintenance, monitoring, or troubleshooting.
    ・ETL, batch processing, API integration, or file-based data integration using Python or similar technologies.
    ・Native-level Japanese communication skills.
  • Preferred
    ・Experience with manufacturing systems, production data, MES, or industrial IoT.
    ・Data lake, data warehouse, cloud, or on-premises platform development.
    ・Data modeling, master data, metadata management, or data quality management.
    ・Git, Jira, CI/CD, automated testing, or agile development.
    ・REST APIs, MQTT, microservices, or system architecture design.
    ・Project leadership, vendor management, or technical mentoring.
    ・Information security, access control, authentication, encryption, and vulnerability management.
    ・Power BI or other business intelligence tools.
    ・Automotive or automotive component manufacturing experience.
    ・English proficiency equivalent to TOEIC 600 or above.
  • Location
    Kanagawa
  • Work Style
    Flex working possible
  • Salary
    ¥6,000,000~¥8,000,000
  • Attractive
    Points
    Listed company, Make use of languages, Weekends and holidays off, Major corporation, Management Position

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