Application Tech Lead - Trade Finance - Software Engineering, Vice President

About the role

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. We are 150,000 colleagues across the globe, 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, we invest 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. This individual contributor role provides technical direction across architecture, engineering, integration, data, cloud, security, and platform modernization for our Trade Finance solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technology lead for Trade Finance solutions, establishing technical direction and aligning architecture and engineering decisions with business priorities, security requirements, and enterprise standards.
• Partner with software engineers, architects, product managers, operations, compliance, vendors, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality technology solutions.
• Translate business and operational requirements into clear technical specifications, target-state designs, and executable engineering plans.
• Design and contribute to the development of applications, APIs, integrations, data pipelines, infrastructure, and platform capabilities.
• Define and promote engineering standards for coding, testing, security, observability, performance, resilience, and continuous delivery.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and design support to engineers while fostering shared accountability and sound engineering practices.
• Evaluate the technical viability of products, platforms, and emerging technologies; contribute to business cases; and recommend solutions that meet specific business requirements.
• Guide the integration of third-party services, applications, and capabilities to improve platform performance and support business outcomes.
• Oversee technical quality across the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor and analyze application performance, reliability, security, and maintainability; identify risks and recommend corrective actions or improvements.
• Perform complex application design and development using technologies appropriate to the solution, which may include Scala, Java, Node.js, REST APIs, microservices, AWS cloud infrastructure, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, and Jenkins.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues, define clear action plans, and guide the design, testing, and production implementation of agreed solutions.
• Collaborate with external partners and vendors to evaluate capabilities, manage technical dependencies, and support platform modernization.
• Stay current with Trade Finance trends, enterprise technology practices, and emerging technologies, including AI and generative AI, and apply relevant innovations responsibly.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on software development experience, including at least 5 years providing leadership across complex applications or platforms.
• Strong understanding of commercial banking products, including lending, Trade Finance, and Supply Chain Finance.
• Expertise in application and solution architecture, microservices, APIs, integration patterns, and cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Application development experience on data platforms, including SQL, extract-transform-load (ETL) tools like Informatica or Glue and Spark and object-oriented programming languages such as Python or C#.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and facilitate architecture decisions.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in Agile delivery environments.
• General understanding of user interface design principles and best practices.
• Experience designing end-to-end data pipelines and CI/CD pipelines for application delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Skills

• Experience with CGI Trade360, Loan IQ, or another application supporting Trade Finance products.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI services, Amazon Bedrock, or equivalent enterprise AI platforms.
• Ability to define AI strategy, evaluate business cases, establish governance controls, and guide AI-enabled transformation initiatives across technology and business teams.
• Strong understanding of data engineering, data quality, and model lifecycle management to support enterprise AI adoption.

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role is:

• New York / New Jersey: $149,000 – $205,000
• Non–New York / New Jersey: $149,000 – $188,000 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.

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule: four days on-site and one day remote per week.

Benefits

• 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.