Assistant Vice President, Data Technical Lead in London

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.

You will be part of AMD-Architecture, Middleware, Data Management & Enterprise Service department. The AMD pillar of Technology has a department focused on Data Engineering & Business Intelligence (DEBI), who are responsible for designing & developing enterprise standard technologies that support data integration, processing, warehousing, mining & reporting.

Main Purpose of the Role: To architect, design and develop EDM and data solutions as part of multiple initiatives across International MUFG entities (MUFG Securities, MUFG Bank and MUMSS). To drive innovation and automation so that we can deliver the highest quality service to our business partners. To ensure that development is cost effective and in accordance with business requirement and architectural guidelines. To mentor and lead other EDM resources that augment the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• In this role, you will be responsible for data across MUFG’s banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement.
• Delivery Support in estimations for different business initiatives.
• Ensure the solution follows and complies with the Technology defined policies, SDLC and best practices.
• Promote a dynamic, delivery driven culture that works in partnership with our BAU team and is responsive to business demands for change.
• Ensure designs meet customer requirements and MUFG/AMD standards.
• Document data definition and design specifications to required standards.
• Lead and mentor the team of EDM developers to deliver on project/change initiatives.
• Maintain good working relationships and interaction with other systems development and support teams.
• Contribute to the planning, execution and verification of Integration Testing and Systems Testing.
• Support users to plan and execute their User Acceptance Testing.
• Gather business requirements from users and clarify what needs to be delivered.
• Translate business requirements into highly specified conceptual and functional design documents.
• Liaise with external and internal clients to support the project development functions.

Risk & Compliance: Ensure all activity fully complies with the appropriate policies, procedures and controls.

Culture and Leadership: Promote the MUFG values-led culture which is inclusive and diverse. Leadership by example on cyber awareness to embed a proactive cyber culture.

Skills and Experience:

• Essential: Advanced proficiency in databases - SQL Server or Snowflake.
• Advanced experience with low-code/no-code data engineering/ETL tool, preferably Markit EDM.
• Knowledge of the IT infrastructure and the IT applications and service processes used within a Financial Services organisation.
• A keen interest in latest trends in technology.
• Demonstrates an understanding of strategic issues and is an authority on the systems development life-cycle (SDLC).
• In-depth knowledge of Business Analyst and Systems Analyst practices.

Preferred: Understanding and experience in projects involving Counterparty, Instrument and/or Market Data, Cloud (AWS or Azure), External Tools, APIs, Data pipelines, Lineage, Task Automation, Scripting Languages (Python, Powershell), Reporting tools (Power BI, SSRS or Tableau), Microsoft Fabric/Data Engineer.

Education / Qualifications: Degree educated and/or equivalent experience.

Personal Requirements: Excellent communication skills, results driven, proactive, motivated approach, strong decision making skills, structured and logical approach to work, strong problem solving skills, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines, excellent attention to detail and accuracy.

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements. MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count.