MUFG
Assistant Vice President, Data Technical Lead
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Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. We are MUFG. 360 years of heritage. A world-class set of businesses. And more than 180,000 employees in 50 markets. It’s no surprise that MUFG has grown to become one of the top five banks in the world. Our services include commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. MUFG offers stability in an ever-changing market, providing services to high-profile clients worldwide. Our vision? To become the world’s most trusted financial group. You’ll help us achieve it.
You will be part of AMD-Architecture, Middleware, Data Management & Enterprise Service department. The AMD pillar of Technology has a department focused on Data Engineering & Business Intelligence (DEBI), who are responsible for designing & developing enterprise standard technologies that support data integration, processing, warehousing, mining & reporting.
Main Purpose of the Role
- To architect, design and develop EDM and data solutions as part of multiple initiatives across International MUFG entities (MUFG Securities, MUFG Bank and MUMSS)
- To drive innovation and automation so that we can deliver the highest quality service to our business partners.
- To ensure that development is cost effective and in accordance with business requirement and architectural guidelines.
- To mentor and lead other EDM resources that augment the team.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery
- Support in estimations for different business initiatives.
- Ensure the solution follows and complies with the Technology defined policies, SDLC and best practices.
- Promote a dynamic, delivery driven culture that works in partnership with our BAU team and is responsive to business demands for change within both the capacity of Change & our BAU Team.
- Ensure designs meet customer requirements and MUFG/AMD standards and act as data support analyst to support a wide range of solutions for various business areas across the EMEA region with consideration for the supportability of these systems to reduce ongoing support costs.
- Document data definition and design specifications to required standards to ensure transparency and supportability of system applications.
- Lead and mentor the team of EDM developers to deliver on project/change initiatives.
- Maintain good working relationships and interaction with other systems development and support teams, as well as with the business areas for whom Technology deliver projects.
- Working closely with developers, testers and end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
- Contribute to the planning, execution and verification of Integration Testing and Systems Testing.
- Support users to plan and execute their User Acceptance Testing.
- Ensure the solution meets their assigned development project targets whilst maintaining high levels of quality.
- Gather business requirements from users and clarify what needs to be delivered as part of the systems development planning.
- Support the user in documenting the business requirements in the initial stage of projects.
- Translate business requirements into highly specified conceptual and functional design documents.
- Create detailed functional/non-functional design documents which will enable users to confirm the functionality and also enable the developers to understand what functionality is required.
- Liaise with external and internal clients such as business users, Change team, vendors in order to support the project development functions.
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Risk & Compliance
- Ensure all activity fully complies with the appropriate policies, procedures and controls
- Strict adherence to change management and privileged production access management processes
Culture and Leadership
- Promote the MUFG values-led culture which is inclusive and diverse.
- Promote a dynamic, delivery driven culture that works alongside business units to provide responsive resolutions and value driven solutions.
- Leadership by example on cyber awareness to embed a proactive cyber culture.
- Find ways to strengthen working relationships with stakeholders, including business teams.
- Build relationships across the bank, establishing a strong peer network and helping to strengthen collaboration.
Work Experience
Essential
- Advanced proficiency in databases - SQL Server or Snowflake
- Advanced experience with low-code/no-code data engineering/ETL tool, preferably Markit EDM (v19.2 or above), however similar tools such as Informatica Power Centre may be acceptable
- Knowledge of the IT infrastructure (for example, hardware, databases, operating systems, local area networks) and the IT applications and service processes used within a Financial Services organisation.
- A keen interest in latest trends in technology
- Detailed practical knowledge of software development and maintenance methods, tools and techniques.
- Demonstrates an understanding of strategic issues, and is an authority on the systems development life-cycle (SDLC) and typical problems associated with the implementation of information systems, from initial concept through development and implementation to operation and support.
- In-depth knowledge of Business Analyst and Systems Analyst practices as well as great understanding of Banking business operations is essential.
- Strong understanding of AI fundamentals, Large Language Models (LLMs), and agentic AI architectures, with the ability to leverage modern data platforms, governance, and data products to enable successful AI outcomes.
Preferred
- Understanding and experience in projects involving Counterparty, Instrument and/or Market Data Cloud (AWS or Azure) External Tools, APIs
- Data pipelines, Lineage
- Task Automation Scripting Languages (Python, Powershell)
- Reporting tools (Power BI, SSRS or Tableau)
- Microsoft Fabric/Data Engineer – Modern Data Architectures e.g lakehouse, data mesh
- ETL/ELT Tools (dbt, Databricks)
- Source Control (GitHub, Tortoise SVN)
- Batch Scheduling (Control-M, Autosys)
- CI/CD
Education / Qualifications
- Degree educated and / or equivalent experience.
Skills and Experience
- Excellent communication skills - both written and oral
- Good overall knowledge of the Murex platform
- Excellent understanding of trade booking and trade lifecycle in Murex
- A strong delivery track record and someone who can really take ownership of the ** initiatives
- Experience of managing a team of senior technology professionals within a top tier bank or consultancy.
- Experience of successfully delivering large scale projects (preferably with an international scope).
- Confidence and gravitas are required to interact with senior managers within the bank.
- Business analysis experience working for a top tier bank or consultancy.
- A thorough understanding of the project life cycle and experience of compiling proposal, scope, requirements and testing documents.
- Knowledge of software development life cycles.
- Good product knowledge incorporating some of the following: Bonds, Derivatives, Credit, Securities Financing, FX and Loans and Deposits.
- Business knowledge:
- Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management (IAM) frameworks, including identity lifecycle management (joiner–mover–leaver), authentication vs authorisation, and access provisioning models
- Deep knowledge of Privileged Access Management (PAM) concepts, including privileged account types
- Expertise in core access control principles, including least privilege, segregation of duties (SoD), and role‑based access control (RBAC), with the ability to identify and mitigate access risks in complex environments
- Understanding of IAM/PAM governance models, including access certification (recertification), entitlement reviews, approval workflows, and audit evidence requirements
- Knowledge of identity and access architecture, including integration between directory services, applications, and PAM solutions
- Awareness of cyber risk and control frameworks, including regulatory expectations (e.g. PRA, ECB, EBA, FCA) and how they translate into access controls and monitoring requirements
- Understanding of operational IAM/PAM processes, including onboarding systems into PAM platforms, managing service accounts, and handling exception access
- Awareness of evolving cyber security practices, including zero‑trust principles, identity‑centric security, and integration with broader cyber risk programmes
- Applications knowledge
- A solid understanding of RSA, ServiceNow, Cyber Ark
- Technical knowledge:
- Ability to self-service on systems analysis requiring advanced excel and some basic sql.
- Strong understanding of AI fundamentals
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Personal Requirements
- Excellent communication skills
- Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
- A proactive, motivated approach. The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
- Strong decision-making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
- A structured and logical approach to work
- Strong problem-solving skills
- A creative and innovative approach to work
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
- Strong numerical skills
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills
We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership. We make our recruitment decisions in a non-
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