Corporate, Investment and Transaction Banking, Technical Delivery Manager

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.

We are seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to join our Corporate, Investment and Transaction Banking Technology team in London. This role will lead the successful delivery of payments and transaction banking technology initiatives from inception through implementation, orchestrating complex system integrations across multiple platforms, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as SEPA Instant regulations.

What you'll do:

• Co‑own the technology portion of overall project plans alongside Project Managers, ensuring seamless integration between business objectives and technical execution.
• Consolidate progress updates from internal technology teams, external vendors, and regional partners to maintain accurate end‑to‑end planning for all assigned projects.
• Drive technical design development by collaborating closely with Tech Leads, architects, platform owners, and infrastructure specialists to ensure timely delivery of robust solutions.
• Oversee software development lifecycle activities including development, testing, release management, and environment preparation on both daily and weekly cadences.
• Provide up‑to‑date information on releases, environments, designs, and testing status to Project Managers for precise project tracking.
• Lead test environment preparation activities such as data masking, access provisioning, connectivity setup, and coordination with test managers for SIT/UAT readiness.
• Act as the single point of contact for all technical matters related to assigned projects; structure comprehensive reports on release status, backlog items, environment health, and issue resolution.
• Prepare technical evidence required for audits and governance gates by maintaining detailed logs, review records, calculations, and security checks.
• Ensure operational resilience by connecting operational readiness processes with secure‑by‑design principles; confirm disaster recovery tests are completed successfully before production cutover.
• Monitor vendor task execution quality daily while managing offshore/onshore teams as a unified delivery line focused on achieving shared goals.

What you bring:

• Demonstrated experience as a Technical Delivery Manager or Software Solution Delivery Lead within financial services environments, ideally involving large‑scale software or system integration projects.
• Comprehensive knowledge of end‑to‑end operations for Payments & Transaction Banking with deep understanding of SEPA Instant regulations.
• Proven track record integrating complex systems such as Cash Management platforms, Payments Middleware (e.g., MQ/Websphere), Accounting Systems or Management Information Systems.
• Expertise in application development using both Agile (Kanban/Scrum/BDD/TDD/DevOps) and Waterfall methodologies; able to adapt approaches based on project needs.
• Excellent understanding of regulatory frameworks relevant to payments (PSR/PSD II/III/SEPA/NPA) coupled with strong awareness of industry IT standards/codes of practice.
• Ability to manage full systems development lifecycle, from specification through implementation, ensuring robust design validation at every stage.
• Degree educated or equivalent professional experience in computer science or related discipline; additional certifications in project management or technology delivery are advantageous.
• Exceptional communication skills enabling effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders including developers, infrastructure teams, security specialists and vendors across multiple geographies.
• Strong organisational skills with meticulous attention to detail when preparing technical evidence for audits/governance gates or managing RAID logs for risk escalation purposes.
• A collaborative mindset that thrives in multicultural environments where teamwork is essential for achieving shared outcomes.

Benefits and culture:

Working at MUFG provides access to international networks, diverse project portfolios, continuous learning opportunities, and a supportive environment that values transparency, fairness and professional development. The organisation places integrity, responsibility and long‑term relationships at the core of its operations, offering opportunities for professional growth and exposure to cutting‑edge financial technology.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership. We make our recruitment decisions in a non‑discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.