Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Data Engineer, Hydrogen Ecosystem Solutions
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Type: Employee, Hybrid
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovation, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation - expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.
Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, Arene, Woven City, and Cloud & AI. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.
About the Team
Toyota is redefining mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information, and energy. Woven City serves as a test course for mobility, powered by carbon-free energy including renewable power and hydrogen. This team is responsible for launching and maintaining a hydrogen demonstration environment at Woven City and conducting demonstrations outside Woven City, collaborating with various stakeholders, and developing business models and strategies.
Responsibilities
- Work with cross-functional teams, various service project owners, third parties, software and hardware engineers to define requirements for data pipelines and storage
- Support the development of Hydrogen related software products by developing traceable data and support API integration with relevant SW/HW applications
- Ensure traceability on data (e.g., data source, when loaded/modified)
- Ensure data quality and availability for report generation and analytics
- Manage data pipelines and storage
- Define data architecture, clean and transform necessary data
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information engineering, data science, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3-5+ years of experience in data engineering and ability to create design documents for databases
- Expertise in data cleaning and creating traceable, standard formatted databases from large volumes of data across multiple sources
- Expertise in designing data architecture, building data pipelines, designing and maintaining data warehouse for reporting and analytics
- Experience working with cloud data storage solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure etc.)
- Experience with APIs (REST) connecting backend and front end systems with databases
- Proficiency in business level Japanese and advanced English with a passion to develop English skill
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in information engineering, data science, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in the software product development for the energy management system, electric power systems
- Data modeling techniques (e.g., data vault 2.0)
- Professional experience in web application development using Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI etc.) or Java (Spring etc.) with DB (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc.)
- Experience in control systems
- Experience working with operational data systems / equipment related
- Ability to learn new domains as needed
- Proficiency in business level English
We Offer
- Competitive Salary - Based on experience
- Work Hours - Flexible working time
- Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
- Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
- Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
- Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance
- Housing Allowance
- Retirement Benefits
- Rental Cars Support
- In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
Our Commitment
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
- Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.
Important Points
- All interviews will be arranged via Google Meet, unless otherwise stated.
- The same job descriptions are available in both English and Japanese; therefore, we kindly ask that you apply to only one version.
- We kindly request that you submit your resume in English, if possible. However, Japanese resumes are also acceptable. Please note that, depending on the English proficiency requirements of the role, we may request an English version of your resume later in the process.