Lead Payments Software Engineering Director

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 120,000 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 Overview:

In this role you will lead, manage, mentor, and build an extremely talented software payment engineering team to deliver a game-changing customer experience across all touch points. You will be accountable for the payments area and manage the team to deliver the changes required. As part of the role, you should be able to communicate with Senior management and provide periodic updates.

Job Duties

• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization

• Ability to leverage sound judgment and problem solving to tackle some of the most critical problems and connect the dots to broader implications of the work

• Ability to present information to a wide variety of audiences including senior management

• Design and develop cutting-edge solutions, using existing and emerging technology platforms

• Build awareness, increase knowledge, and drive adoption of modern technologies and architecture patterns, sharing customer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

• Oversee projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines

• Perform complex application design and programming activities in the latest techniques: Scala, Java, Node, REST, microservices, AWS/Cloud infrastructure, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins

• Provide technical leadership in terms of architecting applications, mentoring developers, making smart technology decisions, and more

• Deliver projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines

Required Skills:

• Minimum 12 years of developing at all levels of the application stack (front end/UI, middle/services and back end/database)

• 12+ years of application development using Java, Python, and/or Scala

• Experience managing teams in Agile environments

• Experience required in Banking Payment Applications

• Experience with Java and Java frameworks

• Added Experience identifying and debugging cloud technologies

• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

• Understanding of Different Payment Message Standards (ISO 20022, NACHA, SWIFT etc).

• Experience with any Vendor application like Fiserv Pep+, Fiserve EPP, GPP Fusion

• Experience in Payment Hub

• Experience in ACH, Wire, RTP, API Payment Processing

• Experience leading and mentoring an engineering team with a wide range of skills (front end, back end, APIs, QA, and DevOps)

• Experience with major public cloud offerings and how to solution designs that are built around these technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and similar) will be an added advantage.

• Experience leading technical iteration on the design, development, documentation, testing, and deployment of platform user interface features

• Prior experience with building distributed, multi-tier applications which are highly performant and scalable

• Must possess organizational, problem-solving skills and time management skills with ability to meet deadlines

• Effective verbal and written communicator; able to present complex issues and solutions with appropriate levels of detail to diverse (technical and non-technical) audiences

• Broad functional understanding of Fixed Income, Derivatives (IRS, CDS) and Foreign Exchange financial instruments

• Excellent communication skills

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience

Work Location(s):

• As per MUFG’s Return to Office policy, must work onsite for 4 days per week & 1 day remote out of our Jersey City, NJ office.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $193K - $243K 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.