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 120,000 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.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Working as part of a small team of enterprise architects, govern the strategic architecture across Bank EMEA and the International Securities business.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Delivery

• Define, implement and operate processes and controls to govern the firm’s enterprise architecture
• Run the Architecture Review Board (ARB), leveraging SMEs from across the organisation
• Work across all technology domains including application, infrastructure (cloud and on-premises), data and security
• Develop and maintain architectural assets to support decision making and requests for information including from the regulator
• Conduct technical reviews of project designs, BAU changes, and other initiaitves that impact the technology architecture
• Support development of the technology strategy in collaboration with the Technology Senior Management Team, tracking progress and providing accurate and frequent status updates
• Produce regular and relevant MI and metrics,and use them to drive improvements
• Monitor industry innovations and trends, and their application to MUFG
• Guide and mentor other team members

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.
• Find ways to strengthen working relationships with stakeholders, including business teams.
• Build relationships across the organisation, establishing a strong peer network.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Experience providing architectural solutions in a multi-entity, multi-regional financial services organisation
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions
• Experience of reviewing and challenging cloud based solutions (Microsoft Azure, AWS etc)

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Functional / Technical Competencies

• Extensive experience of conducting design reviews
• Hands-on experience of architecture modelling and associated tooling (Bizz Design preferred)
• Knowledge of the applications, services and processes used within a Financial Services organisation
• Experience of designing complex technology solutions in a regulated environment
• Good understanding of software development practices, and project delivery lifecycles
• Expertise in Cloud based tools and technology architecture review

MUFG Operate a hybrid working policy with 3 days in the office

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-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.