Propose banking-app and internet-banking systems to regional financial institutions, identify client needs, coordinate with internal and partner teams, and improve digital services and user experience.
About this role
This project lead position is assigned to one of three project areas according to the candidate’s experience, skills, and suitability. The role leads project delivery and is intended to provide a future career path toward project management and organizational management.
The banking area covers development and operation of smartphone banking applications for financial institutions, including account management, transfers, investments, and loans. The business development area delivers fintech functions such as payments, account linking, and points through APIs or applications as B2B digital solutions. It includes participation from business planning and early service stages through requirements definition, API integration, white-label deployment, and customer-specific customization. The card business area covers development and operation of card systems for member management, transaction statements, fraud detection, and points management, including real-time payment processing and connections with VISA and Mastercard networks.
Daily responsibilities include customer discussions, progress meetings, requirements negotiations, and relationship building. The position manages budgets, resources, schedules, risks, and issues; supports the development of internal members; and manages quality across vendors and internal development teams. It also reviews requirements definition and external design, prepares test plans, supports service introduction and releases, and manages post-launch operation and maintenance.
Required qualifications include practical experience in the development phase of an IT project or system implementation. Candidates must be able to build good relationships with stakeholders, advance projects, take initiative in learning about technology, and solve issues through logical hypothesis setting and validation. Preferred experience includes financial or banking system planning, development, and operations; fintech, payments, or points systems; credit, prepaid, or debit card systems; PCI DSS-compliant systems; fraud detection or risk management; and work with SIers, IT consultants, financial institutions, card companies, or payment providers. Knowledge or practical experience with REST APIs, OAuth2.0, OpenAPI, mobile application projects for iOS or Android, B2B SaaS, and white-label products is also welcomed.
The position belongs to the Solution Business Division and involves work related to financial services, digital solutions, and card business expansion within the SBI Group. The posting also states that the team is working to apply generative AI and other current technologies.
The work location is in Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Remote work is available by consultation, and there is no change of work location or transfer. The employment contract is indefinite, with a six-month probationary period. Annual compensation is expected to be JPY 7.0 million to JPY 11.9 million, with a performance-linked bonus; the stated monthly salary range is JPY 583,000 to JPY 991,000. There is one bonus payment and one salary revision per year. As the position is classified as management, overtime pay is not provided. Working hours are generally 9:00 to 17:45 with a 60-minute break, and the position does not use a flextime system.
Benefits include shortened working hours, casual clothing, a defined-contribution pension, group term life insurance, an employee stock ownership plan, childbirth and childcare support, certification and training support, meal assistance, welfare service discounts, Netflix access, accommodation discounts, corporate sports-club membership, health and mental-health consultations, childcare and nursing-care assistance, free e-learning, and communication-related restaurant benefits. Social insurance includes health insurance, employees’ pension, employment insurance, and workers’ accident compensation insurance. Annual holidays total 120 days, with a complete two-day weekend, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays from December 31 to January 3, condolence leave, and 13 to 23 days of paid annual leave depending on the first-year conditions.
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