# Lead Consultant

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: Tokyo, Japan
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are looking for a seasoned Lead Consultant to provide end-to-end technical solution ownership for ONESOURCE GTM implementations in the Japan market.

As a primary technical authority, you will ensure solution quality, architectural integrity, and successful delivery for our enterprise customers.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Solution Design and Technical Leadership: Own end-to-end technical solution design for ONESOURCE GTM customer implementations

- Translate customer business requirements related to Import/Export controls and Free Trade Agreements (FTA) into scalable and compliant technical designs.

- Define and document system architecture, integrations, data flows, and technical specifications.

- Ensure solutions align to Thomson Reuters product capabilities, implementation standards, and best practices.

- Delivery Oversight and Quality Assurance: Provide technical oversight across the full project lifecycle, from design through go-live and stabilization.

- Review and validate technical deliverables produced by developers and consultants.

- Ensure high quality, performance, security, and maintainability of delivered solutions.

- Identify technical risks early and drive appropriate mitigation plans.

- Team Leadership and Collaboration: Provide technical leadership and mentoring to delivery teams located in AEM

- Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex implementation issues.

- Collaborate closely with project managers, functional consultants, and product teams to ensure successful delivery.

- Customer Engagement: Engage directly with customer stakeholders as a trusted technical advisor.

- Lead or support technical workshops, design sessions, and solution walkthroughs.

- Clearly communicate technical concepts and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**Required Qualifications**

- Minimum 3-5 years of proven experience in a Lead Design Consultant, Technical Lead, or Solution Architect role implementing SaaS-based enterprise solutions (ERP, compliance, or trade systems).

- Hands-on experience with system integrations involving ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and custom enterprise applications.

- Strong technical skills in SQL, XML, data mapping, and integration technologies.

- Broad understanding of enterprise IT architecture and integration patterns.

- Fluent English communication skills, written and verbal.

- Experience delivering solutions for customers in the Japan market or working closely with Japanese stakeholders.

- Experience working in a global delivery model with distributed teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Strong domain knowledge of Global Trade Management, including Import/Export compliance, Trade Controls, and FTA processes.

- Prior experience with Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE applications is highly desirable.

- Japanese language proficiency (business level or higher) is a strong advantage.

**What's in it For You?**

- Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.

- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions.

- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- XML
- data mapping
- integration technologies
- English
- Japanese

### Nice to have
- Global Trade Management
- ONESOURCE applications

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