MUFG
Director, Head of Technology Resilience and Production Operations
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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.
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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Head of Technology Resilience and Production Operations, Director is accountable for defining and executing the Technology Resilience and Production Operations strategy to strengthen MUFG’s technological service stability, mitigating risks to business continuity whilst handling the complexities of the business landscape.
The role holder will work collaboratively with colleagues in EMEA and across the globe to create an Enterprise Technology Resilience and Production Operations Centre of Excellence platform function to further enhance resilience and existing production operations.
The Head of Technology Resilience and Production Operations will strengthen the resiliency and control landscape through the automation of embedded controls and with an agile approach to delivering resilience enhancements, improving service stability and security, increasing velocity and speed with the ability to commoditise on a global scale.
The role holder will heighten customer satisfaction through the protection of revenue, safeguarding MUFG’s reputation and vision to become ‘the worlds most trusted Bank’ and ensuring continued regulatory confidence.
The role holder will work with the Head of Digital Engineering Services and Solutions Department Head to deliver transformation through a reliable, robust, sustainable, scalable and efficient operating model by leveraging best practices.
The role holder will be accountable for launching and promoting Technology Resilience and Production Operation offerings to MUFG business lines including communications, education and service readiness. They will own and lead the investment planning of Technology Resilience related projects and programmes measuring the effectiveness of these services delivered.
This is a Leadership position and an integral part of the Digital Engineering Solutions and Services Leadership team maintain compliance and regulatory obligations.
NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS
TBC - Team Size circa 25
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning & Strategy
- Own and execute a comprehensive Technology Resilience and Production Operations strategy to scale and commoditise the platform where necessary whilst meeting regulatory obligation.
- Accountable for leading the strategic direction of Technology Resilience, service design and delivery performance to protect the MUFG business and enable the business and IT to respond to disruption whilst continuing with critical business operations.
- Accountable for leading the strategic direction for safeguarding the organisation’s infrastructure and applications by proactively identifying, assessing, and remediating security vulnerabilities.
- Accountable for defining, leading and governing the Change and Release Management strategy across the enterprise translating business strategy into technological action by ensuring digital transformation efforts are stable.
- Accountable of leading the strategic direction of Incident, Problem and Event Management to maintain operational resilience.
- Provide leadership and insight on future tooling, technologies, promoting adoption of these within regions to support the ongoing modernisation of the Technology Resilience and Production Operations enterprise function.
- Own and manage cost and feasibility while planning and delivering Technology Resilience and Production Operations platform services.
- Provide leadership and subject matter expertise on Technology Resilience and Product Operation technologies and adoption of these across multiple regions and business lines to support the ongoing modernisation of the function, staying ahead of technological advancements through knowledge and experience through internal and external networks.
- Identify opportunities and implement strategies for efficiency enhancement, functionalities and service quality improvement, whilst adopting technology advancements where possible.
- Own and manage the Technology Resilience and Production Operations platform budget, licensing and vendor relationships to ensure cost efficiency, optimisation and Return on Investment.
- Identify opportunities and implement strategies for efficiency enhancement, functionalities and service quality improvement, whilst adopting technology advancements where possible.
- Work with Head of Digital Engineering Services and Solutions to deliver a reliable, robust, sustainable and efficient operating model by leveraging best practices.
- Ensure relationships with EMEA Technology functions and business clients are actively managed to fully deliver to business requirements.
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Centre of Excellence, Platform Management and Governance
- Accountable for building and implementing an Internationalised Technology Resilience and Production Operations Centre of Excellence Platform ecosystem that is robust, secure and resilient.
- Accountable for Manage and overseeing successful platform upgrades pertaining to the Technology Resilience and Production Operations function.
- Accountable for deliver best practice operations and strategic development, shaping the department’s security posture while adhering to MUFG policies and procedures.
- Accountable for resolving platform escalations with the autonomy and experience to make final decision on prioritisation, resourcing and design configurations for tooling, products and systems pertaining tot the Technology Resilience and Production Operations function.
- Accountable for delivering high quality management information and dashboards that provide a comprehensive view of the Technology Resilience and Production Operations estate. Deliver senior stakeholder communications by translating complex technical details into clear, accessible insights.
Service Continuity, Design and Performance
- Accountable for designing, implementing and management of the Technology Resilience framework to ensure systems can adapt, recover and withstand disruption for service continuity and business performance aligning with the Operational Resilience and Business Continuity divisions outside of Technology.
- Own and execute the strategic planning, governance and testing of IT systems to ensure business resilience.
- Accountable for designing, implementing and managing Technology service design, acceptance and continuous performance of Technology Production operations.
- Accountable for ensuring new technology or changed services establish document standards for availability, capacity, security and continuity to ensure they operate at peak performance once live.
- Accountable for tracking the operational readiness for in-scope projects, to ensure new services and changes are fully “ready” to be supported maintained and used by the business and Technology without causing disruptions.
- Accountable for defining and enforcing service acceptance criteria and conducting readiness assessments to ensure new olive systems meet security, reliability and supportable standards.
- Accountable for defining Key Performance Indicators and metrics (e.g system uptime, response times) with the Business and Operational Resilience to then tracking Technology service performance and health against Service Level Agreements.
- Accountable for providing regular data for senior management that includes Technology and KPI, SLA and risk management MI to Senior Executives in the form of executive dashboard and automated alerts to drive investment and governance decisions to meet business objectives.
- Accountable for service analysis of performance data to identify bottlenecks and lead initiatives that enhance services efficiency and user satisfaction.
- Accountable for business impact analysis to identify vulnerabilities, critical assets and definition recovery time/point objectives.
- Accountable for identifying Technology business continuity risk, creating Technology Division Business Continuity Plans in alignment with Product and Platform owners to identify necessary risk mitigation, including managing concentration risk and ensuring SaaS recovery assurance.
- Accountable for orchestrating and leading complex, end to end Disaster Recovery exercises, including cycler attack simulations, ransomware scenarios and infrastructure failures to maintain Technology service continuity and resilience in the event of a disaster or critical event.
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Incident, Problem and Event Management
- Own, execute and driving the Incident, Problem and Event Management associated procedures to resolution using strong facilitation, planning and time management.
- Accountable for responding to “event” (changes in Technology state), collaborating with the Observability function Lead and monitoring functions to mitigate service-impacting incidents.
- Accountable for providing major Incident cover, coordinating resolution efforts to ensure timely incident management.
- Accountable for the assessment and prioritisation of multiple incidents based on the customer, business, regulatory, reputational and financial impacts, knowing when to escalate without sacrificing SLA commitments.
- Accountable for communicating the incident status, resolution and impacts to internal and external stakeholders clearly and concisely, including gathering relevant information to communicate to regulators.
- Accountable for Postmortem analysis with accountable parties to identify root cause and deliver eradication actions with the correct ownership.
- Drive a culture that reduces repeat incidents, shared learning, identifying thematic root causes, impacts and actions to drive improved decision making.
- Owns and executes enhance capabilities in root cause identification, implementing proactive Problem Management practices.
- Accountable for delivering high quality management information and dashboards that provide a comprehensive view of the Technology Resilience and Production Operations estate. Deliver senior stakeholder communications by translating complex technical details into clear, accessible insights.
Change Management
- Accountable for the design, implementation and management framework for the introduction of technology changes and software releases into the live environment.to meet business goals whilst maintaining operational resilience.
- Accountable for the execution of the enterprise Change Advisory Board to successfully manage risk, business impact and the authorisation of Technology change to ensure all changes meet regulatory and audit requirements.
- Accountable for ensuring all changes are authorised, documented and appropriately assessed for risk.
- Accountable for maintaining forward schedule of change and deployments manging conflicts and conflicts between multiple technology stacks and ensuring high availability of systems (uptime).
- Accountable for release orchestration, coordinating within complex deployment pipelines integrating traditional change with agile methodology to maintain speed and stability.
- Accountable for evaluating the risks to the integrity of the Technology service environment, including security, availability and performance impact, ensuring comprehensive rollback plans are in place for all deployments.
- Own and execute automation across the delivery pipeline to improve efficiency and reduce manual risk.
Governance
- Own and oversee the health, performance and operational integrity of Technology Resilience and Production Operations Platforms and products.
- Ensure accurate reporting of all KPIs/KRIs for the Technology Resilience and Production Operations Platforms and products, systems and tooling.
- Accountable for defining, refining and communicating frameworks, policies and procedures, ensuring alignment and collaboration with third parties for consistent delivery.
- Identify key risks within the Technology Resilience and Production Operations team, assessing and mitigating those risks in accordance with the appropriate risk management framework
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