Solutions Architecture Careers in Japan: What 369 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 369
- 135
- 60%
- 26%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
34
3-4 years of experience
44
5-9 years of experience
98
10+ years of experience
44
13%
34% day-to-day or above
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 10%
PMP 8%
AWS
45%
Project Management
40%
Azure
30%
Generative AI
27%
Google Cloud
23%
Stakeholder Management
23%
API Development
18%
Data Analysis
18%
369 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
12%
9% day-to-day or above
PMP 29%
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 15%
34 postings
3–4 years
16%
19% day-to-day or above
PMP 16%
Stakeholder Management 48% (+22)
Generative AI 36% (+15)
TypeScript 14% (+11)
JavaScript 11% (+11)
React 11% (+11)
44 postings
5–9 years
19%
45% day-to-day or above
PMP 7%
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 5%
DevOps 12% (+10)
98 postings
10+ years
20%
54% day-to-day or above
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 18%
CI/CD 18% (+10)
44 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥9,800,000 · 95 postings state pay
¥8,000,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥12,300,000
Working Conditions
- 26%
- 12%
Fully remote
21
Hybrid
84
On-site
11
368 postings
What Comes Next
People management
13
Senior leadership
11
Specialist track
10
Project management
10
Employers naming each step, of 22 that name one
Levels by Job Title
Specialist track
Entry / new graduate
8
Junior / associate
3
Senior
34
Principal
7
Management track
Team lead
28
Manager
12
Director
3
Individual-contributor level
52 postings from 25 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Solutions Architecture · individual-contributor level
English · 47 postings
Daily English
40%
Some English
38%
No English stated
21%
Japanese · 48 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
65%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
19%
Limited Working Proficiency (JLPT N3)
2%
No level stated
15%
7 years median (middle half 5 to 9.5)
over 38 postings stating a threshold
10% of postings (5)
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) (12%)
Team-lead level
28 postings from 14 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Solutions Architecture · team-lead level
English · 28 postings
Daily English
18%
Some English
25%
No English stated
57%
Japanese · 28 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
100%
5 years median (middle half 2 to 6)
over 16 postings stating a threshold
7% of postings (2)
Project Management 57% (+36 pts over the level below)
Google Cloud 25% (+15 pts over the level below)
Azure 32% (+13 pts over the level below)
Generative AI 43% (+10 pts over the level below)
Microservices 14% (+10 pts over the level below)
terms counted over 28 postings at this level
3 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Who Is Hiring
All Solutions Architecture openings
369 postings from 135 employers, as of 2026-09-22
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Solutions Architecture career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Solutions Architecture job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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