About this role
Job Title : Senior Techno-Functional Consultant / Full-Stack AI Solution Consultant
Organization Name: NEC Corporation of India Ltd.
Location: Japan
Experience: 8-10 Years
Role Summary: The ideal candidate should experience of 8-10 years, a full-stack consultant with strong Japanese communication skills, hands-on development capability, and practical AI solution exposure. He or she should be comfortable working in Japan with customer business teams, converting early-stage business ideas into realistic PoC/MVP solutions, and coordinating with offshore engineering teams for delivery.
The strongest fit is not a pure developer and not a pure business analyst. The strongest fit is a hands-on solution consultant who can discuss business problems in Japanese, design the technical approach, build or guide the prototype, and present the outcome to customer stakeholders.
Job Description /Responsibilities:
- Work with Japanese business stakeholders to understand convenience-store operational challenges, customer experience needs, workforce issues, store productivity gaps, and automation opportunities.
- Convert business ideas into clear PoC or MVP scope, success criteria, user journeys, functional requirements, and technical feasibility notes.
- Design and develop prototype applications using modern front-end, back-end, database, cloud, and API technologies.
- Apply AI, Generative AI, computer vision, predictive analytics, and automation technologies where relevant to convenience-store use cases.
- Prepare high-level architecture, data flow, integration approach, API design, and deployment approach for PoC/MVP solutions.
- Coordinate with offshore development teams, customer IT teams, product teams, and business users.
- Prepare working demos, collect feedback, refine solution concepts, and support customer approval for next-stage development.
Technical Skills(Mandatory):
- Strong hands-on experience across front-end, back-end, APIs, databases, cloud deployment, and integration.
- Practical exposure to AI-enabled applications, not just theoretical AI knowledge.
- Ability to work directly with Japanese business and IT stakeholders without depending fully on another translator or coordinator.
- Prior experience in building prototypes, MVPs, demos, pilots, or innovation solutions.
- Front-End: React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, Material UI.
- Back-End: Node.js, Express.js, Python, FastAPI, Java Spring Boot or .NET Core.
- Database: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis; ability to design practical data models for PoC/MVP use cases.
- API and Integration: REST APIs, GraphQL, Webhooks, JSON, OAuth2, API Gateway concepts, third-party API integration.
- Mobile / Edge Exposure: Progressive Web Apps, mobile-friendly UI, edge device integration, IoT gateway concepts; mobile app exposure is a plus.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- JLPT N1 or N2
Specialization Description
Responsible for improving or developing new products, components, equipment, systems, technologies, or processes including:
- Ensuring that research and design methodologies meet established scientific and engineering standards
- Assisting with formulating business plans and budgets for product development
- Analyzing quality/safety test results to ensure compliance with internal and external standards
- Keeping abreast of new developments in the industry and translating those developments into new and viable options for the organization and customers
- Organizing technical presentations to customers and/or industry groups
- Monitoring product development outcomes to ensure technical, functional, cost, and timing targets are met In some organizations, may be responsible for managing product regulatory approval process
Level Description
Experienced level professional that applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience. Works independently with general supervision. Works to achieve operational targets within the job area with a direct impact on function / sub-function results. Problems faced are difficult but typically not complex. May influence others within the job area through explanation of facts, policies and practices.