Solution Architecture, Vice President
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About the role
The Business and Solution Architect is a senior, enterprise-level role responsible for aligning business strategy with technology execution. This position works across business and technical domains to design and deliver scalable, end-to-end solutions that support organizational transformation and growth. The role translates complex business needs into actionable architecture designs and roadmaps, guiding implementation across applications, data, and cloud platforms while ensuring security, performance, and long-term sustainability. Partnering closely with stakeholders and delivery teams, the architect influences strategic direction, drives architectural governance, and ensures successful execution of large-scale initiatives. This role requires a blend of business architecture expertise and deep technical knowledge, along with the ability to operate effectively in complex, cross-functional environments and deliver measurable business outcomes.
The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day.
Responsibilities
- Strategic & Business Architecture
- Develop and maintain enterprise business architecture, including:
- Capability models
- Business process frameworks
- Current and future state architectures
- Align business strategy, operating model, and technology investments
- Define and evolve business and technology roadmaps
- Analyze organizational needs and identify opportunities for transformation and optimization
- Apply structured business architecture methodologies and best practices
- Develop and maintain enterprise business architecture, including:
- Solution & Technical Architecture
- Design end-to-end enterprise solutions across:
- Cloud platforms
- Applications
- Data and integration layers
- Infrastructure and networking
- Translate business requirements into technical architecture and implementation designs
- Define:
- Application components
- Interfaces and integration patterns
- Platforms and development tools
- Lead architecture for distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented environments
- Ensure alignment with security, scalability, and operational requirements
- Design end-to-end enterprise solutions across:
- Delivery & Execution
- Develop and manage architecture roadmaps and delivery sequencing
- Support full lifecycle delivery:
- Design
- Build
- Deployment
- Optimization
- Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation
- Optimize solutions for performance, cost, and scalability
- Conduct risk assessments and ensure quality and governance adherence
- Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
- Communicate architecture vision and solutions to:
- Business stakeholders
- Technical teams
- Executive leadership
- Act as a trusted advisor across business and technology domains
- Drive alignment across stakeholders to achieve target architecture
- Mentor and guide architects, engineers, and analysts
- Communicate architecture vision and solutions to:
- Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies
- Introduce modern architecture practices and frameworks
- Improve architecture processes, tools, and governance
- Promote reuse of architecture artifacts as organizational assets
Requirements
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or a closely related discipline (or equivalent work experience)
- Work Experience
- Extensive experience in business architecture and solution architecture
- Experience with enterprise, application, and information architecture
- Proven ability to operate at both:
- Strategic business level (capabilities, processes, operating models)
- Technical solution level (systems, applications, cloud architecture)
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise solutions
- Knowledge of cloud architecture, security, and networking (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Knowledge of AI and core interaction patterns with AI and Agentic use cases
- Experience with distributed systems, SOA, APIs, and modern application architectures
- Strong understanding of business processes, capability modeling, and enterprise transformation
- Experience aligning business strategy to technical delivery
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and compliance (preferred, e.g., financial services)
- Strong programming or development background
- Functional Skills
- Ability to translate business strategies into technical architectures and implementation roadmaps
- Experience developing:
- Business architecture artifacts (capability models, process flows, value streams)
- Technical architecture designs (application, data, integration, and infrastructure)
- Expertise in defining and managing:
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Enterprise roadmaps for target-state architecture
- Strong experience with:
- Cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns
- Workflow automation and process optimization
- Architecture modeling tools and frameworks
- Ability to design end-to-end enterprise solutions across business, application, data, and technology layers
- Experience communicating complex architectures through:
- Diagrams
- Executive presentations
- Documentation
- Familiarity with Agile and modern software delivery methodologies
- Ability to influence and guide senior leadership and technology teams
- Foundational Skills
- Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement
- Excellent communication and storytelling across business and technical audiences
- Strategic thinking with a systems mindset
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to operate in complex, ambiguous environments
- Collaboration across business and technology functions
- Trusted advisor mindset with strong decision-making ability
- Continuous learning and innovation mindset
- Ability to mentor and develop team members
- High integrity and accountability
- Additional Business Knowledge Areas
- Preferred: Corporate Banking, Transaction Banking, Lending, Credit, Supply Chain Finance, Regulatory and Compliance, Accounting / General Ledger, Know Your Customer, Anti Money Laundering
- Architecture background using TOGAF, Ardoq, or other tools to document business systems
Pay
The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:
- New York / New Jersey: $172,000 - $191,000
- Non–New York / New Jersey: $143,000 - $180,000 (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 (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.
Schedule
Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.