Solution Architecture, Vice President

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.

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.