Lynda Brown
EMEA Director of Talent AcquisitionBirmingham, United Kingdom
My experience has taught me to give people chances - it’s amazing to see how much they can flourish when you do.
Part of Hitachi Group, our expertise supports the cutting-edge work of Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Digital Services. We’re people-centric and here to power good. We unlock data’s full potential so that together, we can take theme park fans on magical rides, conserve natural resources, and save lives. This is a world of dynamic data migration, trusted data discovery, reliable privacy and compliance, and unified data integration. We do it all on a global scale. We do it 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.
About the Role:
We are looking for a highly experienced Lead Product Architect with over 10 years of proven expertise in product development. The ideal candidate should be exceptional at problem solving, deeply skilled in one of Java, Python, or Kotlin, and flexible enough to adapt to and work with any technology stack or programming language.
This role goes beyond coding – we need a hands-on technical lead who can mentor a team, drive feature delivery.
Job Title: Lead Architect – Product Development (Python/Java)
Experience: 10+ Years
Location: Hyderabad(hybrid mode)
What you’ll bring:
• Strong problem-solving skills and system design expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Python, or Kotlin (expert in at least one).
• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple technologies, platforms, and programming languages.
• Experience leading development initiatives and delivering complex features with minimal supervision.
• Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle, agile methodologies, and best practices.
• Ability to play lead/architect roles for the features/modules they own.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and RESTful API design.
• Own and deliver key product features end-to-end.
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews and mentorship to junior developers.
• Drive architecture and design decisions with scalability and performance in mind.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver innovative solutions.
• Perform hands-on development, debugging, and testing as needed.
• Ensure high standards of code quality, security, and maintainability.
• Continuously explore, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
Preferred/Bonus Skills:
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.
• Prior experience in architecting distributed, scalable systems.
About us
We’re a global, 500-strong, tight-knit team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight 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.
My experience has taught me to give people chances - it’s amazing to see how much they can flourish when you do.
I love to have discussions with employees and managers on what we can do to support the overall wellbeing of our teams.
Working as a group has always given me energy and kept me motivated, we can deliver amazing results as a collective.
Hitachi’s commitment to sustainability and proactiveness to support clients as a social responsibility makes me excited about the future.
Hitachi offers great work-life balance, and flexible working arrangements - from remote to hybrid. If you are interested in comprehensive and competitive perks and benefits, you will find it all here.
Empathy is important. When we love working with the people around us, we like coming into work and dealing with those people every day.
