- Salary
- $172 – $191
- Location
- New Jersey Office - 210 Hudson Street, United States of America · New York, NY · Tampa, FL
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- VP
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Workday
Description
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.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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: $172-191k
- Non–New York / New Jersey: $143k-180k
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, please click the link below.
Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.
