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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.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer Vice President to lead our Trade Finance technology solutions team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge software solutions that enhance our Trade Finance offerings. Your expertise in Commercial banking Products, Payment processing, Loan products, and industry standards (such as T360 from vendor CGI Inc.) will be critical in driving innovation and ensuring seamless customer experiences. This role will lead MUFG Trade Finance technology solutions team.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of software engineers, architects, and product managers to deliver high-quality technology solutions for our Trade Finance business.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, and compliance, to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

Design and develop scalable, secure, and efficient software applications, APIs, and integrations.

Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to Trade Finance solutions.

Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to team members.

Ensure adherence to coding standards, quality assurance processes, and security protocols.

Collaborate with external partners, vendors, and industry stakeholders to drive innovation and enhance our product offerings.

Participate in architectural discussions, system design, and technology evaluations.

Drive continuous improvement in software development processes and methodologies.

Participate in all phases of software engineering life cycle and troubleshoot technical problems as needed.

Design, develop, and maintain applications, infrastructure, and platform according to changing requirements and following established processes and procedures.

Facilitating in the integration of third-party services, applications and functionalities to enhance web performance and increase e-business success.

Monitor, test, analyze, and evaluate application performance; resolve issues and/or recommend improvements.

Provide guidance and technical instruction to junior level engineers.

Conduct needs analyses and requirements assessments, assesses technical viability of products/technologies, contribute to development of business cases, and consult and make recommendations on technical solutions to meet specific business requirements

Consult on database development, database transaction management, and application integration for various systems or platforms.

Test, debug, and/or oversee the testing and validation of applications to ensure that quality and functionality are in line with the requirements, as well as industry standards and protocols.

Perform complex application design and programming activities in the latest techniques: Scala, Java, Node, REST, microservices, AWS/Cloud infrastructure, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins

Provide technical leadership in terms of architecting applications, mentoring developers, making smart technology decisions, etc.

Deliver projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines

Troubleshoot issues and problems, comes up with clear action plan(s) to resolve such issues, develops, tests and implements the agreed solution into production

Required Experience:

Minimum of 10 years of hands-on software development experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.

Strong expertise in building and maintaining Trade Finance solutions, including payment processing, L/C issuance, and transaction management.

Solid understanding in Commercial banking Products

Experience with T360 or any Trade Finance application with Trade Finance products expertise.

Experience Implementing, Integrating, and Building Cloud, AWS, Glue, Spark, Python, ETL environments.

Proficiency of microservices architecture, APIs, and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Proficiency in Application and Solution Architecture

Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Prior experience in financial services, banking, or fintech is a plus.

Application development experience on data platforms, leveraging structured query language (SQL), extract-transform-load (ETL) tools, and object-oriented languages (Java, Python, C#)

Experience managing teams in Agile environments

General understanding of UI design principles and best practices

Experience creating end to end data pipelines as well as CI/CD pipelines for applications delivery

Education:

Degree or equivalent work experience equally preferable.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related discipline

Other Qualifications: 

As per MUFG’s work policy, must work onsite 4 days and 1 day remotely out of either our Tempe, AZ, Tampa, FL, or Jersey City, NJ office. 

The typical base pay range for this role is between $134K - $182K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

                                        MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.