Director – Head of Platform Services
About the job
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive technology leadership experience, including at least 5 years in a senior management or lead capacity.
- Proven experience delivering platform leadership within a regulated financial services environment, such as banking, asset management, insurance, or payments.
- Demonstrated expertise across hosting infrastructure, virtualization, Windows and Linux platforms, and AWS and Azure cloud environments.
- Familiarity with middleware and databases.
- Demonstrable experience leading site reliability engineering or platform reliability functions and embedding observability tooling at scale.
- Experience managing and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Experience operating within formal governance structures, technology risk frameworks, and audit environments.
- Formal cloud platform certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect or Azure Administrator/Architect, or equivalent.
- Experience with financial services regulatory frameworks, such as FCA, PRA, or DORA, and technology risk management practices.
- Familiarity with ITIL, DORA metrics, or other service management and reliability frameworks.
- Background in control assurance, technology risk, or operational resilience disciplines within financial services.
- Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization at enterprise scale.
- Define and execute the long-term technology roadmap for platform domains, including hosting, virtualization, cloud, and observability.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of platform and infrastructure engineers.
- Act as the senior technical authority for infrastructure decisions, architectural standards, and platform governance.
- Partner with senior stakeholders across Technology, Risk, Compliance, and the Business to align platform capabilities with organizational goals.
- Oversee the management and evolution of on-premises hosting environments and data center operations.
- Drive the strategy and lifecycle management of virtualization platforms, such as VMware and Hyper-V, or equivalent.
- Ensure platform capacity planning, performance management, and availability targets are consistently met.
- Maintain accountability for enterprise-grade Windows Server and Linux environments, such as RHEL and Ubuntu, or equivalent.
- Enforce operating-system hardening standards, patching cadences, and configuration management practices in line with security and regulatory requirements.
- Champion automation and infrastructure-as-code across server provisioning and configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef, or equivalent.
- Lead cloud operations across AWS and Azure, ensuring environments are secure, well-architected, cost-optimized, and compliant.
- Drive cloud adoption strategies, including migration initiatives, cloud-native service integration, and hybrid cloud design.
- Establish and enforce cloud governance frameworks, tagging policies, cost management disciplines, and identity and access controls.
- Maintain awareness of cloud service evolution and assess new services for applicability to the organization’s platform strategy.
- Define and embed an observability-first culture, establishing standards for logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting across platform layers.
- Lead adoption and maturation of site reliability engineering practices, including service-level objective and service-level agreement definition, error budgets, reliability reviews, and blameless post-incident processes.
- Drive implementation and continuous improvement of monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk, or equivalent.
- Champion proactive capacity management, performance engineering, and chaos engineering to improve platform resilience.
- Maintain a strong risk and control framework across platform domains and ensure adherence to internal policies and external regulatory requirements, such as FCA and PRA, or equivalent.
- Engage proactively with Internal Audit, Risk, and Compliance to evidence platform controls and address findings in a timely manner.
- Ensure robust disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities are designed, tested, and maintained.
- Manage third-party and vendor risk for platform-related suppliers, including contract performance and service-level agreement oversight.
About the company
MUFG is a global financial group that provides banking, trust services, securities, credit cards, and asset management to individuals and businesses. Its products work by offering loans, deposits, payments, investments, and asset management through a network of banks, digital platforms, and advisers. It differentiates itself by its large size, diversified offerings, and strong international footprint, including its U.S. expansion tied to the Morgan Stanley partnership. Its goal is to support economic growth worldwide by expanding its reach and promoting sustainable finance.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2006
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026, MUFG completed nearly ¥100 billion buybacks, signaling capital discipline.
- FY2026 profits reached ¥2.427 trillion, lifting annual dividends to ¥86 per share.
- August 2026 on-chain JGB repo testing and June stablecoin launches modernize transaction infrastructure.
What critics are saying
- Private-credit partnerships with BlackRock and Morgan Stanley turn MUFG into a low-margin distributor.
- October 2026 Islamic banking, Labuan, MENA research, and Europe expansion multiplies compliance overhead.
- A sanctions or AML failure in 2026-2027 threatens U.S. correspondent banking and MUFG credibility.
What makes MUFG unique
- MUFG spans 50 countries, 2,300 locations, and 160,000 employees, unlike domestic Japanese rivals.
- January 2026, MUFG Securities Americas became a U.S. primary dealer, deepening dollar-market access.
- September 2026, MUFG opened private-credit talks with BlackRock and Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Holidays
Parental Leave
Professional Development Budget
401(k) Retirement Plan
Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Company News
MUFG appoints Dylan Roy as Head of G10 Rates (ex-Japan). October 7, 2026 New York, October 6, 2026 - MUFG today announced the appointment of Dylan Roy as Head of G10 Rates (ex-Japan). In his new role, Dylan will be responsible for leading MUFG's G10 Rates (ex-Japan) business, partnering closely with clients and colleagues across regions to further build the Global Rates franchise and support the bank's long-term growth ambitions. Dylan Roy joins MUFG with almost three decades of experience across global fixed income, rates, foreign exchange and credit markets in New York and London. Over the course of his career, he has built and led high-performing international trading businesses with extensive expertise in business strategy and risk management. Most recently, Dylan served as Global Co-Head of Fixed Income Trading at UBS Investment Bank, where he co-led teams in the Americas, Europe and Asia and was responsible for business strategy, risk management and resource allocation across the global fixed income franchise. Prior to that, he was Head of FX, Rates & Credit for the Americas and a member of the division's executive committee. Michael Yarian, Head of Global Markets Sales & Trading (ex-Japan): "We are exceptionally pleased to welcome Dylan to lead such a strategically important asset class for MUFG. Dylan's leadership skills, strategic perspective and client focus will be invaluable as we continue our growth journey with our Rates franchise and deliver long-term value to our clients. The appointment reflects MUFG's continued investment in its global markets platform and its focus on building market-leading capabilities for clients across regions and asset classes." Dylan Roy, Head of G10 Rates (ex-Japan): "I am excited to be joining MUFG at such an important time for the business. MUFG has a clear growth ambition and an increasingly important position within global markets. I look forward to working with colleagues across the organisation to build on that momentum, deepen client relationships and further enhance our G10 Rates offering worldwide." About MUFG Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,300 locations in more than 50 countries. The Group has about 160,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to "be the world's most trusted financial group" through close collaboration among its operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of its customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges. For more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english.
MUFG launches Green Deposit offering for EU businesses. MUFG Bank announced today the launch of its Green Deposits offering in the EU, aimed at enabling corporate clients to allocate funds to environmentally sustainable projects. Introduced in the U.S. in 2021, and in the UK in 2023, MUFG's Green Deposit solution allow clients to place term deposits with the bank, which are in turn used to effectively finance assets that align with MUFG's Green Deposit Framework. Developed with support from ESG ratings, data, and research provider Morningstar Sustainalytics, the framework covers a broad range of eligible sustainable activities, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transportation, biodiversity, sustainable land-use and natural-resource management, sustainable water and wastewater management, green buildings, eco-efficient and circular-economy products, technologies and processes, and climate-change adaptation initiatives. Mamoru Shibata, Head of Transaction Banking EU/EEA at MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V., said: "Across the European market, sustainability continues to be an important priority for businesses, and we see strong value in extending this offering to the EU, providing clients with a solution that delivers both financial and non-financial value." Alongside the launch, MUFG also announced Subaru Europe as the first client to place funds through the new Green Deposits product. Keigo Ino, Vice President, Subaru Europe said: "We are pleased to be first to join an initiative that creates meaningful environmental benefits and contributes to a more sustainable future for our customers in Europe."
SkyDrive launches eVTOL Feasibility study in Western Japan. October 6, 2026 SkyDrive, a leading compact eVTOL (*1) aircraft manufacturer based in Japan, announced that it has launched a joint initiative with leading enterprises in the Kansai region - including MUFG Bank Ltd. ("MUFG Bank") and key industry leaders across transportation, aviation, infrastructure, energy, tourism and financial services - to evaluate and advance the commercial deployment and operational framework for eVTOL aircraft in Western Japan. Background and objectives. Driven by its mission "taking the lead in the once-in-a-century mobility revolution" and its vision of making daily air mobility a reality, SkyDrive continues to advance the development of compact eVTOL aircraft. During Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, SkyDrive successfully conducted demonstration flights of its SKYDRIVE (SD-05) eVTOL aircraft (*2). Following the Expo, advanced air mobility initiatives in Kansai are transitioning from technical validation to commercial integration. Practical steps to incorporate eVTOLs into daily urban transportation are accelerating rapidly across Osaka and the broader Kansai region, bringing commercial operations closer to reality. For example, under a Cabinet Office Super City research project, SkyDrive is collaborating with Osaka Metro and other partners to study converting existing rooftop emergency helipads ("H" marks) on urban buildings into vertiports (*3). In response to this momentum, leading corporations across aviation, infrastructure, energy, tourism, finance and insurance - led by MUFG Bank - recognized that establishing a sustainable business model requires cross-industry collaboration beyond passenger services to build next-generation transport infrastructure. This shared vision led to the creation of the "Kansai Air Transportation Network Concept," a collaborative framework designed to support the development of new industry and air mobility infrastructure originating in Kansai. In parallel with urban infrastructure planning in Osaka, SkyDrive will leverage the strong backing of MUFG Bank and partner companies to accelerate the execution of this network concept and drive the mobility revolution across the Kansai region. Core focus areas. Under this joint initiative, participating companies will combine their industry expertise and operational foundations to address the following key areas: * Flight Network and Routes: Developing medium- and long-term flight networks and operational routes across the Kansai region * Infrastructure Development: Planning vertiports, maintenance facilities and supporting ground infrastructure * Operations and Safety Management: Establishing operational, maintenance and safety management frameworks * Demand Generation and Service Integration: Creating demand and developing mobility services integrated with regional transportation and tourism * Commercial Feasibility and Business Models: Evaluating commercial viability and building sustainable business models * Public and Community Engagement: Collaborating and maintaining ongoing dialogue with national government agencies, local municipalities and regional communities
SkyDrive and partners launch feasibility study for commercial eVTOL operations in Western Japan. SkyDrive has announced that it has launched a joint initiative with leading enterprises in the Kansai region - including MUFG Bank - to evaluate and advance the commercial deployment and operational framework for eVTOL aircraft in Western Japan. Practical steps to incorporate eVTOLs into daily urban transportation are accelerating rapidly across Osaka and the broader Kansai region, bringing commercial operations closer to reality, said SkyDrive in a press release. "For example, under a Cabinet Office Super City research project, SkyDrive is collaborating with Osaka Metro and other partners to study converting existing rooftop emergency helipads ("H" marks) on urban buildings into vertiports". "In response to this momentum, leading corporations across aviation, infrastructure, energy, tourism, finance and insurance... recognized that establishing a sustainable business model requires cross-industry collaboration beyond passenger services to build next-generation transport infrastructure. This shared vision led to the creation of the "Kansai Air Transportation Network Concept," a collaborative framework designed to support the development of new industry and air mobility infrastructure originating in Kansai." Under this joint initiative, participating companies will combine their industry expertise and operational foundations to address the following key areas: * Flight network and routes: Developing medium- and long-term flight networks and operational routes across the Kansai region * Infrastructure development: Planning vertiports, maintenance facilities and supporting ground infrastructure * Operations and safety management: Establishing operational, maintenance and safety management frameworks * Demand generation and service integration: Creating demand and developing mobility services integrated with regional transportation and tourism * Commercial feasibility and business models: Evaluating commercial viability and building sustainable business models * Public and community engagement: Collaborating and maintaining ongoing dialogue with national government agencies, local municipalities and regional communities (Image: From left: Kensuke Nishiji, managing director and head of startup acceleration strategy division at MUFG Bank; Shin Kitamura, member of the board of directors, senior managing executive officer and head of Japan Western Region at MUFG Bank; Taiji Ono, head of global business at SkyDrive; former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida; Hirofumi Yoshimura, governor of Osaka Prefecture; Tamotsu Saito, chairman of NEDO, presenting the joint initiative at the MUFG booth during Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.)
Bank of Hawai'i announces New senior executive vice president and chief information officer Bradley Giemza. September 29th, 2026 Bradley Giemza recently joined Bank of Hawai'i as senior executive vice president and chief information officer, where he leads the bank's technology strategy, architecture, infrastructure, information security, business intelligence, and analytics functions. As a member of the bank's Executive Committee, he works to align technology investments with business objectives, drive innovation, enhance operational effectiveness, and ensure the organization is positioned to meet the evolving needs of its customers and communities. Giemza brings 27 years of technology and risk leadership at global financial institutions to his role at Bank of Hawai'i. He most recently served as group chief risk officer and managing director at R.J. O'Brien & Associates in Chicago, the oldest independent futures brokerage in the U.S., where he was also acting head of RJO Technology. There he led both the firm's global risk department and its IT organization spanning cybersecurity, data centers, networks, cloud architecture and FinTech, managing operations across Chicago, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore. Previously, Giemza was managing director and head of investment banking and capital markets IT at MUFG Union Bank, serving as business-line CTO responsible for IT strategy and execution for Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets Trading systems. He also worked with Société Générale/Newedge Group, rising to global head of risk IT after serving as senior director and global head of clearing IT. Giemza began his career at JPMorgan Chase, advancing through progressively senior technology roles and was vice president and technology program manager in the Investment Bank Rates Technology Group. Giemza has been a member of the Options Clearing Corporation's Technology Round Table, the Global Association of Risk Professionals and the Chartis FinTech Focus Group, as well as an executive board member of the International RegTech Association. He is a member of the FIA (Futures Industry Association), the leading global trade organization for the futures, options and centrally cleared derivatives markets. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his MBA from DePaul University in Chicago. Browse More