Vice President, Regional Architect

**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.

**Roles & Responsibilities**:
**Platform Architecture & Governance**
- Define and evolve the regional Wintel platform strategy in alignment with global enterprise architecture and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Design secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure for banking workloads including trading, payment, and compliance platforms.
- Ensure architectural consistency, documentation, and alignment with global IT standards, security baselines (e.g., CIS), and internal audit controls.

**Regional Team Leadership**
- Lead and mentor the regional Wintel engineering team to ensure performance, knowledge retention, and technical depth.
- Develop and enforce operational KPIs and SLAs, ensuring alignment with business-critical system availability and response times.
- Serve as the regional escalation point for major incidents and drive root cause analysis and permanent remediation.

**Operational Excellence**
- Oversee Windows Server lifecycle management, patching, configuration hardening, performance tuning, and backup/recovery strategies.
- Implement automation for repetitive operational tasks using PowerShell or enterprise tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual error.
- Coordinate change management processes in accordance with ITIL practices and banking audit standards.

**Regulatory & Risk Compliance**
- Ensure all infrastructure components comply with regional banking regulations (e.g., MAS, HKMA, etc) and internal audit requirements.
- Collaborate with Risk and Compliance teams to remediate vulnerabilities and enforce platform security policies.
- Lead periodic risk assessments, disaster recovery tests, and infrastructure reviews with internal and external audit bodies.

**Project Delivery**
- Lead regional implementation of regional Wintel programs such as hardware refresh, OS upgrades, data center migrations, and new service rollouts.
- Provide cost analysis, budgeting input, and vendor engagement for Wintel infrastructure procurement and services.

**Job Requirements**:

- Minimum 12 years of experience in Wintel infrastructure management, with minimum 5 years in a leadership/architect role.
- Microsoft Certified in Windows Server/Infrastructure (MCSE, Azure Architect).
- Experience supporting Tier 0/Tier 1 banking systems in a high-availability and low-latency environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- ITIL v4 certification or strong operational process management background.
- Project Management (e.g., PMP or Prince2) certification is a plus.
- Strong expertise in Windows Server (2016/2019/2022), SCCM/SCOM, and virtualization platforms (VMware).
- Solid understanding of infrastructure security, privileged access management, and compliance reporting.
- Proven experience leading regional projects in an enterprise environment.
- We regret to inform that only shortlisted applicants will be notified._

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.