Job Description

PRINCIPAL DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES: Leadership . Being a high-level departmental leader who develops and maintains the IT strategic road-map, ensuring that IT capabilities continually support the overall business's goals and objectives. Proficient level of Japanese and English is required to take alignment with strategy and policies defined in parent company in Japan and develop/deploy DGI own versions in English. . Implement and maintain IT policies and procedures that enable strong security and risk-management capabilities . Explores new technologies and software as appropriate . Ensures high performance of the IT department . Is in charge of business continuity and disaster recovery . Recommends and implements new investments within technology infrastructure . Assumes responsibility of oversights of the entire network and system infrastructure ensuring proper configuration, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of security firewalls, sites/software, servers, data and file encryption, and internet connections. . Plays a mentorship role to key IT personnel, promoting professional growth, and readying them for the occupation of his position in the future.Strategy and Infrastructure . Implementation and Enhancement of ETRM system, Risk Management system, Optimization system . Plays a strategic role in the IT Department coordinating the selection, implementation, and the upgrade of the business's software/applications and services. . Implementing and documenting a business recovery strategy for the purpose of resuming operations of system architecture in the event of a disaster . Implementation/deployment of systems and software provided by Tokyo headquarter which is beneficial to the organization. Proficient level of Japanese would be required for efficient execution of this role in coordination with resources in HQ and vendor(s) in Japan. . Establish security architecture and implements procedures and controls that ensure that information and data are secure and in compliance with the security and storage regulations of the business. . Leads the process and team members in the analysis, enhancement, and tailoring of current practices and existing systems in order to increase operating efficiencies as well as reduce and cut costs within the business. . Ensures consistency and maintainability of existent infrastructure environments through creation, maintenance, and enforcement of well documented standards and procedures of technical solutions. . Being accountable for the operational and capital budgets, addressing the needs of various areas of the IT department, for example, system infrastructure, security, networks, and databases the needs of various areas of the IT department, for example, system infrastructure, security, networks, and databases. . Ensures adherence to overall financial objectives of the business and tracks the annual departmental expenditures and directs the department's financial needs in conjunction with the financial department.Analysis . Plays an analytical role constantly assessing the effectiveness of the existing sites, software/applications, data, and processes developed by the department. . Analyzing complex business requirements and makes recommendation for technical solutions, ensuring that these solutions are aligned with the overall business vision, mission and direction. . Japanese reading capability is required to play a final evaluation/examining role of spam/phishing email filtering after those come through system level of filtering, and to fine-tune the filtering itself under email communication environment in both English and Japanese.Knowledge . Plays a role in the maintenance of knowledge within the IT department, coordinating the implementation of best practices and the adaptation of suitable trends. . Keeps track of licensing on all IT related items.REQUIREMENTS: . Strong IT experience with a proven track record in a comparative management role with a focus on handling the full IT Operations scope, within a comparative industry . Strong working knowledge of IT best practices . Proficient and fluent in both Japanese and English (written and verbal) . Experience with end point device management . Experience in defining a unified data management policy and setting up and managing the Intranet . Experience and interest in working within a fast paced, multinational company
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