Lead Solutions Architect (Bilingual)
Owndays · Tokyo ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Architecture
- Experience
- 5+ years
Owndays · Tokyo ·
Applications: candidates may apply from outside Japan. Visa sponsorship: available. Japanese: Business level. English: Business level. Japan Dev tags: Engineering, Python, Javascript, AWS, PostgreSQL, Git, New Relic, Infra.
About The Company
OWNDAYS (part of Lenskart) is a leading eyewear company that offers a wide range of high-quality spectacles to customers worldwide. Established in Tokyo, Japan in 1989, the company has grown to over 500 stores across 13 countries and has become one of the most trusted and innovative eyewear brands in Asia.
As we continue modernizing our global technology platform, we're looking for exceptional technical leaders who enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and building scalable solutions that power our business around the world.
Company Mission
Our mission goes beyond providing clear vision—we strive to enrich our customers' daily lives through innovation, exceptional customer experiences, and technology that connects our stores, ecommerce platforms, and operations seamlessly across every market.
About The Role
We are looking for an exceptional Lead Solutions Architect who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving complex technical problems from first principles.
This is not a traditional Solutions Architect role, nor is it a typical Product Manager position.
Instead, you'll act as the technical counterpart to our business Product Managers and serve as an internal technical SWAT team, tackling the organization's most challenging technical problems—from production incidents and system integrations to designing entirely new platform capabilities.
One week you may be tracing inventory discrepancies across multiple systems by diving into databases, APIs, logs, and event flows. The next, you may be architecting a new customer-facing capability, designing an integration between enterprise systems, or leading the migration of legacy platforms to modern cloud-native architectures.
You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, developers, infrastructure teams, QA, and business stakeholders to transform complex business problems into elegant, scalable technical solutions.
This role requires someone who enjoys wearing many hats—solution architect, technical product manager, systems thinker, engineer, and technical leader.
Reporting to the Head of IT, you will collaborate with teams across Japan, India, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and other global markets.
Native or fluent Japanese (N1) and English are required.
What You'll Do
Solve the Problems That Don't Have Owners
Architect Scalable Solutions
Partner with Product Managers
Lead Technical Execution
Build and Improve Platforms
Who We're Looking For
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What Makes Someone Successful
The ideal candidate enjoys tackling problems that don't have obvious answers.
You don't wait for someone to tell you where the issue is—you investigate, ask questions, analyze data, review logs, inspect databases, and work collaboratively with engineers to uncover the root cause.
You can move comfortably between technical architecture discussions, SQL queries, API debugging, whiteboarding system designs, sprint planning, stakeholder meetings, and production incident response.
You combine the curiosity of an engineer, the systems thinking of an architect, and the execution mindset of a technical product leader.
Why Join OWNDAYS
You'll help shape the future technology platform behind one of Asia's fastest-growing global retailers.
This role offers the opportunity to solve meaningful technical challenges at scale, influence architecture across multiple countries, and work alongside talented business and engineering teams to build the next generation of omnichannel retail experiences.