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Lead Technical Architect

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Coupa

Lead Technical Architect

5 days agoTokyo, Japan

Viewed on April 1, 2025

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

• Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
• Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.

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• Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.

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The Impact of Lead Technical Architect to Coupa:

As a Technical Architect at Coupa, you will collaborate with our Customers, Partners and internal Product Management teams to implement cutting-edge solutions for our customers. Your expertise and experience will be crucial in integrating technologies into the Procurement, Supply Chain, and/or AP Automation domains, enabling our teams to manage the successful delivery of integration projects at Coupa effectively.

What You'll Do:

    • Lead customer expectations, collaborating with project managers to meet project timelines and quality standards
    • Engage with customer architecture and senior management on integration topics in both individual and team settings
    • Design integration extraction and consumption methodologies in a multi-ERP environment
    • Mentor and lead integration engineers to successfully deliver solutions, configuring and developing RESTful APIs and flat-file-based integrations
    • Detect, diagnose, and resolve integration-related issues, and design and build infrastructure for data extraction, preparation, and loading from various sources

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

    • Solid hands-on experience in architecting large-scale integrations, including ERP integration with SAP, PeopleSoft, ORACLE E-Business Suite, and Netsuite
    • Expertise in one or more Finance and Procurement functional areas (e.g., Procure to Order, Procure to Pay, Expenses, Accounts Payable), with an advantage in supply chain planning system space
    • Direct experience with sFTP, RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, and Single Sign-On configuration
    • ERP domain knowledge in SAP, PeopleSoft, and ORACLE, familiarity with AWS or other cloud host stacks and a strong understanding of web technologies
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, coupled with project management and organizational skills, and the ability to advocate, convince, and align customers and teams
    • Demonstrable experience integrating with external supplier systems using standards like EDI, cXML etc
    • Middleware Experience - IBM / TIBCO / SAP / ORACLE / Boomi/ Talend
    • Programming Language Experience - Ruby / Java / .NET
    • Scripting languages - Python, Powershell
    • Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
    • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases such as SQL server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra etc.

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Client-provided location(s): Tokyo, Japan
Job ID: Coupa-52a94b8f-3d7a-4214-b519-a121ec675daf
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
    • Short-Term Disability
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Adoption Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Happy Hours
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Volunteer Time Off
    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Pension
  • Professional Development

    • Leadership Training Program
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Promote From Within
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Unconscious Bias Training
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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