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.

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:

The Cloud Architect will lead the bank's enterprise-wide cloud strategy and cloud security initiatives. This role requires a multifaceted expert with a proven track record in architecting, implementing, and securing large-scale cloud solutions within highly regulated environments. The ideal candidate requires technical expertise in both cloud architecture, security and leadership skills to drive our cloud smart approach. They will be responsible for maturing a comprehensive cloud adoption approach that aligns with business objectives, ensures regulatory compliance, leverages best-of-class technologies while maintaining high standards of security to protect our assets and customer data.

Responsibilities:

Mature the architecture and oversee the implementation of a secure, scalable, and cost-effective multi-cloud ecosystem

Design and oversee implementation of effective cloud security measures, including identity and access management, data protection, and threat detection

Collaborate with executives to align cloud and security initiatives with overall business strategy

Drive innovation by identifying and integrating emerging cloud technologies and security solutions

Ensure compliance with stringent financial industry regulations and security standards in cloud environments

Act as the key liaison between IT, security, business units, and cloud service providers

Develop and implement comprehensive cloud security policies, procedures, and incident response plans

Develop and maintain the bank's cloud architecture roadmap, strategy, and security framework

Provide executive-level reporting on cloud architecture, security posture, and risk management

Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and compliant cloud solutions

Oversee the development and execution of cloud security policies, standards, and best practices

Ensure compliance with financial industry regulations and security standards in cloud environments

Stay current with emerging cloud technologies, security threats, and industry trends.

Required Experience:  

Extensive experience in cloud services such as AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud

Extensive Experience in designing and implementing scalable and secure cloud solutions

Strong experience with OpenShift, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting; solid understanding of containerization and Kubernetes

Extensive experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates

Extensive design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed systems or enterprise applications

History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises

Deep experience in one or more of the following areas: software design or development, infrastructure architecture, storage technology, content distribution, database architecture, IP networking, IT security, troubleshooting, performance tuning, systems operations

Extensive experience guiding architectural decisions for enterprise applications

Extensive experience creating diagrams and written summaries to clarify complex enterprise-level technology solution designs for business, technology, and executive stakeholders

Experience managing large or multiple technology development efforts within a major line of business

Experience developing roadmaps to sequence delivery of a target state architecture through prioritized phases

Experience engineering, running projects and delivering on them, executing on roadmaps, and maintaining strong relationships with solution vendors

Significant hands-on cloud solution architecture experience

Extensive experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture preferred

Ability to present information to wide variety of audiences, including senior leadership

Communicates effectively

Anticipates changing business needs, adjusts priorities accordingly, and allocates necessary resources and budget to achieve objectives

Equips the business to become an effective competitor in a highly dynamic landscape 

Considers stakeholder needs and input as well as best practices and insights from industry trends when making strategic decisions

Education & Certifications:

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 New York, NY, Jersey City, NJ, Tampa, FL, or Tempe, AZ office.  

The typical base pay range for this role is between $150K - $180K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonuses 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, and 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.