VP - Data Products and AI Enablement

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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.

Vice President - Data Products& AI Enablement

Job Summary

The Vice President - Data Products & AI Enablement is a hands-on engineering role responsible for designing, building, and scaling the bank’s data and AI engineering platforms. The role focuses on high-performance data infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML platforms, data pipelines, semantic retrieval, and production-grade AI services that enable enterprise analytics and intelligent applications across the bank. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with deep expertise in data infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and emerging AI technologies.

Major Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend data and AI platforms supporting commercial banking, risk, finance, operations, and enterprise data use cases.
• Build production-grade AI infrastructure including vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, AI agents, semantic retrieval, and intelligent data services.
• Develop high-volume data pipelines and distributed processing frameworks using Python, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, and cloud-native technologies.
• Optimize data storage, retrieval, indexing, and compute performance across large-scale structured, unstructured, and vector datasets.
• Develop and operationalize AI/ML workloads across cloud infrastructure, including model serving, inference, retrieval, evaluation, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with data scientists, AI engineers, product managers, architects, cybersecurity, risk, and business teams to translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years of progressive software, backend, platform, or data engineering experience, including enterprise-scale distributed systems and production data platforms.
• Knowledge of data security, governance, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, and performance optimization.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred

• Advanced degree or relevant cloud, data engineering, Kubernetes, or AI/ML certifications.
• Experience delivering technology solutions in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience partnering with cybersecurity, data governance, model risk, architecture, and control functions.

Core Expertise

AI/LLM Engineering | Agentic AI | RAG and Vector Search | Data Engineering | Distributed Systems | Python and SQL | Kafka | Airflow | Spark | Kubernetes | AWS/Cloud | APIs and Microservices | AI/ML Infrastructure | Data Security and Governance | High Availability | CI/CD | Financial Services

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: $ 150-188K
• Non–New York / New Jersey: $137-169 K

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.