Software Engineering Developer Lead

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.

Job Summary:

In this role you will lead software engineering team and responsible for designing, developing and maintain high-quality, scalable, and secure applications using Java and related technologies. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand the business requirements, translate then into technical solutions and ensure the delivery of overall software systems. Java Developer work across full development lifecycle, including analysis, coding, testing, debugging, deployment, and ongoing support.

Responsibilities:

• As IT Lead, provide strong leadership and influencing skills to collaborate with all stakeholders and IT partners to implement end-to-end project deliverables.   
• Design, develop and maintain JAVA/J2EE platform applications, sprint boot based microservices, integration and message-driven architecture with API, MQ, Kafka.
• Build Scalable RESTful APIs and provide ongoing API support, troubleshooting and enhancements
• Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes pods for performance, stability and autoscaling behaviors
• Integrate third-party vendor solutions and SaaS applications ensuring secure and seamless data flow
• Collaborate closely with vendors to understand integration requirements, resolve issues, and support configuration of external systems.
• Participate in system design discussions to define architecture, data models, and technical specifications.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following industry and organizational best practices.
• Support application deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and automated build process.
• Perform Code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement fixes.
• Work with database (SQL/NoSQL) for query development, tuning and schema design.
• Participate in DR exercise and provide off-hours or weekend support during critical releases, maintenance windows and urgent production incidents.
• Collectively review Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and develop Functional Design Document (FDD) and Detailed Design Document (DDD) for review and seek sign-off with all stakeholders.
• Develop thorough knowledge of complex application design and programming activities in the latest related technologies: JAVA frameworks, REACT, Angular,  HTML5+, CSS,  frameworks, objective C, Swift, Android, Xcode, Android Studio, REST, JSON, AJAX, API/Services, J2EE, Hibernate, MQ, SQL, Oracle, JBoss, MQ, OpenShift, Apache, microservices, AWS/Cloud infrastructure, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins
• Establish monitoring, alerting and performance tuning practices to ensure system stability and availability
• Strong commitment to production support activities including SSL/TLS certificates, MQ certificates updates and Service accounts password rotations. Manage timelines, deliver quality to meet agreed SLA’s..   
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate findings clearly and effectively to wide variety of audiences including senior management

Qualifications / Work Experience

• 10+ years of experience with financial industry and preferably in banking environment.
• 8+ years of experience in leading project end-to-end delivery, and driving through Agile development cycles or waterfall/SDLC development cycles.
• 8+ years of experience with Cash Management system or Liquidity Management system and thorough understanding of payment initiation, processing, and reporting processes.    
• Dominant knowledge with wire, ACH payments, check processing, and closely worked with banking operations to investigate customer issues, and trouble shoot system issues.
• 8+ years of experience with Web Applications deployed in WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, or Kubernetes in internet facing settings.
• 8+ years of experience in application design, development stack (front end/UI, middleware services, and back end/database).
• 8+ Strong development experience using Tools Java, Hibernate, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript, Typescript,  microservices, Angular, CSS, HTML,  SOAP/REST API , Custom flat files, csv, XML/JSON APIs.
• 8+ years of Strong experience in batch programming using Shell, DOS,  Autosys Job scheduling, testing, and processing
• 8+ years of strong experience in SQL and Oracle database. Expertise in creating tables, stored procedures, PL/SQL, Sql Agent Jobs and Reporting.
• Strong background in CI/CD, cloud-native architecture.
• Experience in banking, financial service industry. Good understanding of Banking transmission formats (NACHA, ISO20022, BAI2) .
• Extensive experience on-prem Kubernetes ,OpenShift infrastructure and major public cloud offerings and how to solution designs that are built around these technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and similar)
• Knowledge in with working AWS, Azure, or any cloud provider
• Knowledge in working using Python , AWS resources S3, lambda, terraform is a plus.
• Knowledge with vendor products such as Bottomline Technology Digital Banking platform,  ACI World Wide Online Banking, Finastra Cash Management platform experience is a plus.  
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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 between $145K - $182K 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.

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.