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.
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
In this role you will lead software engineering team to deliver leading-edge clients facing applications with best customer experience, while providing flexible/scalable microservices integration solutions across all touch points. Collaborate with various stakeholders from end-to-end in MUFG by working with business, risk, infrastructure technology teams to drive product implementations, continuous improvements. Function as the steward of the system, process, and customer experience by providing dominant business knowledge and developing cutting-edge software solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms including Gen AI. Conceptualize new design, build knowledge base in responsible areas, and drive adoption of modern technologies, architecture patterns, engineering practice, and security requirements. Deliver investment projects and manage business-as-usual practice that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit, integration, and performance testing pipelines.
Responsibilities:
- As Lead Software Developer, provide strong technical leadership and influencing skills to collaborate with all stakeholders and IT partners to implement end-to-end project deliverables.
- Ability to work both independently and in collaborative environments within and across other teams and communicate effectively with all stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels.
- Provide architectural recommendations, design enhancements, and hands-on coding for applications built on JAVA/J2EE platform.
- Collaborate with business and IT partners to develop product and systems roadmaps that enable innovative product offerings and client engagement.
- Leverage strong domain knowledge and innovative thinking to continuously identify technology opportunities of enhancing current system landscape.
- Design detailed interfaces and develop applications integration and message-driven architecture with API, MQ, Kafka.
- Lead SaaS platform application upgrades and vendor patching schedules. Collaborate with vendors for product testing, escalation, and incident handling.
- Collaborate with project managers, business analyst, product owners to define technical requirements, provide applicable estimations and delivery Plans.
- Collectively review Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and develop Functional Design Document (FDD) and Detailed Design Document (DDD) for review and seek sign-off with all stakeholders.
- Deliver projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines
- Develop thorough knowledge of complex application design and programming activities in the latest related technologies: JAVA frameworks, REACT, Angular, HTML5+, CSS, frameworks, objective C, Swift, Android, Xcode, Android Studio, REST, JSON, AJAX, API/Services, J2EE, Hibernate, MQ, SQL, Oracle, JBoss, MQ, OpenShift, Apache, microservices, AWS/Cloud infrastructure, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins
- Promote automation in building, deployment, and testing pipelines for JAVA/MQ applications
- Establish monitoring, alerting and performance tuning practices to ensure system stability and availability
- Strong commitment to production support activities including SSL/TLS certificates, MQ certificates updates and Service accounts password rotations. Manage timelines, deliver quality to meet agreed SLA’s.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate findings clearly and effectively to wide variety of audiences including senior management
Qualifications / Work experience
- 10+ years of experience with financial industry and preferably in banking environment.
- 8+ years of experience in leading project end-to-end delivery, and driving through Agile development cycles or waterfall/SDLC development cycles.
- 8+ years of experience with Cash Management system or Liquidity Management system and thorough understanding of payment initiation, processing, and reporting processes.
- Dominant knowledge in wire, ACH payments and closely worked with banking operations to investigate customer issues, and trouble shoot system issues.
- 8+ years of experience with Web Applications deployed in WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss, or Kubernetes in internet facing settings.
- 8+ years of experience in application design, development stack (front end/UI, middleware services, and back end/database).
- 8+ Strong development experience using Tools Java , Hibernate, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript, Typescript, microservices, Angular, CSS, HTML, SOAP/REST API , Custom flat files, csv, XML/JSON APIs.
- 8+ years of Strong experience in batch programming using Shell, DOS, Python, Autosys Job scheduling, testing, and processing
- 8+ years of strong experience in SQL and Oracle databases. Expertise in creating tables, stored procedures, PL/SQL, SQL Agent Jobs and Reporting.
- Strong background in CI/CD, cloud-native architecture.
- Experience in banking, financial service industry. Good understanding of Banking transmission formats (NACHA, ISO20022, BAI2).
- Understand Agentic AI utilization in code, deployment, testing and documentation.
- Extensive experience on-prem OpenShift infrastructure and major public cloud offerings and how to solution designs that are built around these technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and similar)
- Experience with working with Kubernetes, and AWS, Azure, or any cloud provider
- Experience in working using AWS resources S3, lambda, terraform is a plus.
- Experience with Bottomline Technology Digital Banking platform, ACI World Wide Online Banking , Finastra Cash Management platform experience is strongly preferred.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
“ Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”
The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:
- New York / New Jersey: $140k–$205k
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, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package,
Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.
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.
