About this Technical Lead / Engineering Lead-68426 role at Hitachi
Function
Cloud & Data EngineeringOur 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
Meet Our Team
Join a collaborative, high-performing engineering team focused on building scalable enterprise solutions and driving innovation through modern cloud and AI technologies. Our team partners closely with business stakeholders, product leaders, and global development teams to deliver impactful outcomes that support strategic business goals. With a strong culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and ownership, we embrace modern development practices, AI-assisted engineering, and cloud-native architectures. You'll have the opportunity to lead talented engineers, influence technology decisions, and help shape the future of intelligent software solutions.
What You'll Be Doing
As the Technical Lead, you will own the end-to-end design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise applications while remaining hands-on with development. You'll partner with Business Analysts, product owners, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and actionable delivery plans. Leading an offshore development team in India, you'll drive sprint execution, mentor engineers, oversee code quality, and ensure successful delivery across multiple initiatives. You will communicate regularly with clients and executive stakeholders, providing project updates, managing risks, and aligning technology investments with business priorities. Additionally, you'll champion modern engineering practices by leveraging GitHub Copilot, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted development tools, while designing and implementing Agentic AI solutions and cloud-native architectures on AWS to improve efficiency, scalability, and innovation.
What You'll Bring to the Team
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, and technical leadership.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and REST APIs.
- Advanced experience with MS SQL Server, including database design, performance tuning, and stored procedures.
- Proficiency in Angular and modern TypeScript-based front-end development.
- Experience with AWS cloud services, cloud-native architectures, and AI-enabled application development.
- Hands-on knowledge of Agentic AI frameworks, LLM integrations, and AI-driven engineering practices.
- Expertise with GitHub Copilot, prompt engineering, and developer productivity tools.
- Experience with Bamboo, Bitbucket, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
- Proven success leading and coordinating offshore development teams in India.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and client-facing leadership skills.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business objectives and delivery commitments.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments; AWS or Java certifications are a plus.
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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.
