Modern Infrastructure and Security Architect - VP

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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.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a talented and experienced Modern Infrastructure and Security Architect, Vice President who is collaborative, outcome‑driven, and passionate about enabling secure, resilient, and scalable technology platforms across the enterprise. This role provides architecture leadership across infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity domains, partnering closely with Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS), Cloud Engineering, security engineering, and product teams to drive enterprise technology transformation.

Major Responsibilities:

• As a Modern Infrastructure and Security Architect, Vice President at MUFG, you will define and guide the execution of modern infrastructure and cybersecurity architecture in partnership with Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS), Cloud Engineering, and platform teams across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments.
• Partner with EIS, Cloud Engineering, security engineering, product managers, architects, engineering leads, and risk stakeholders to identify, evaluate, incubate, and scale infrastructure and security capabilities across the enterprise.
• Maintain visibility into infrastructure and security capability gaps across all of the bank’s technology pillars to help prioritize remediation, platform investment, and long‑term architectural roadmaps.
• Establish and evolve target‑state architectures, reference designs, and reusable patterns that enable secure, compliant, and scalable technology delivery.
• Support the rollout of shared platform and security capabilities through automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, and reliability‑focused design principles aligned with SRE practices.
• Collaborate with business, risk, and compliance partners to translate regulatory and control requirements into practical, consumable architectural solutions.
• Act as a strategic architecture partner to EIS and Cloud Engineering , jointly shaping platform roadmaps, onboarding strategies, and security capabilities that balance enterprise standards with delivery realities.
• Guide cloud and platform onboarding strategies, including secure landing zone architectures, shared services, inherited controls, and integration patterns.
• Drive integrations and tooling that improve security posture and operational resilience across both cloud and legacy environments.
• Influence the responsible adoption of emerging technologies, including AI‑enabled capabilities and intelligent automation, within established governance and risk frameworks.
• Promote modern engineering and operational practices that improve platform resilience, developer experience, and long‑term maintainability.
• Clearly and concisely communicate complex architectural, technical, and risk tradeoffs to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with and mentor architects and senior engineers, fostering strong architectural thinking, shared ownership, and cross‑team alignment.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, infrastructure engineering, or security engineering, including enterprise‑scale or platform‑oriented solutions.
• Strong experience designing and governing solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or hybrid enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity architecture, risk management, and control‑based design within regulated financial institutions.
• Experience working in close partnership with infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering organizations in a matrixed enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with modern automation, CI/CD enablement, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.
• Working knowledge of modern AI and intelligent automation platforms and their architectural implications.
• Comfortable operating within Agile and hybrid delivery models across complex organizations.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate complex technical, architectural, and organizational challenges and propose pragmatic, iterative solutions.
• Proven ability to balance security rigor, regulatory expectations, and business delivery needs.
• Collaborative, solution‑oriented mindset with a focus on enablement, reuse, and long‑term sustainability.

The typical base pay range for this role is between

• New York / New Jersey: $180k – $220k
• Non- New York / New Jersey: $166k – $192k

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, paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

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.