Enterprise Architect, ERP Cross-Functional Engineering Department, Tokyo

Money Forward provides a cloud-based business platform called Money Forward Cloud that helps companies solve financial and operational challenges through integrated cloud and AI-powered solutions.

Within this ecosystem, Money Forward Cloud ERP delivers scalable financial and business management solutions for mid-sized and large enterprises.

Over the past decade, Money Forward has built many products across different teams and technology stacks. To better scale and deliver more value to customers, the ERP Cross-Functional Engineering Department was established in 2023 to unify engineering foundations and improve collaboration across ERP teams.

Responsibilities

- Build a community of architects and technical leads across ERP product teams

- Become the chief facilitator that will lead by influence across three countries and multiple offices

- Provide division-wide architecture vision, strategy, and execution

- Mentor engineers in architecture and technical design

- Contribute to the creation and review of technical specs/design across the division

- Join company-wide architects community and participate to central initiatives

Requirements

- Architecture and systems design: distributed systems patterns, design of domain-oriented microservices, hands-on experience leading large-scale migration/refactor projects

- Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency, resilient cloud-native systems. Expertise in multi-tenant data isolation, event-driven architectures, microservices, and API-first platform design.

- Mastery of major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern deployment pipelines (CI/CD, zero-downtime releases). That includes finops and cost optimization experience at large scale.

- API platform and connectivity: deep knowledge of API design, end-to-end API lifecycle ownership

- Proficient in leveraging generative AI and advanced tooling to streamline workflows and accelerate delivery. Have proven hands-on experience setting up agentic workflow to increase engineering efficiency.

- Hands-on experience structuring scalable data pipelines, transactional vs. analytical databases (SQL/NoSQL/Vector), and integrating AI/ML workflows securely into product feature sets.

- Security and compliance: design and review of zero-trust architectures, practical compliance experience, secret management patterns

- Leadership and influence experience, track record of coaching Staff/Principal Engineers and standardizing architecture, strong facilitation skills

- Strong verbal and written English skills to ensure clarity and alignment across distributed, cross-functional teams. Communication ability is equally important than the technical skills expected for the role.

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

- Proven track record of leading architects and engineers in a mid-size product company or larger company

- Over ten years of experience in an software architect role or similar position

- Japanese ability

Compensation

¥13,008,000 ~ ¥18,000,000 annually.
Hiring Process
- CV Screening
- First interview
Depending on the position, there may be a technical assignment before the interview.

- Several interviews
The number of interviews depends on the position. We will request you to take an aptitude assessment that is a web-based survey and will take around 20 minutes to complete.

- Final interview
We may ask for a reference check before or after the interview. We do not make employment decisions based solely on the contents of reference checks, and that you’re going through a selection process with MoneyForward specifically won’t be disclosed.