Senior Enterprise Architect

Overview

As Senior Enterprise Architect, you will develop and maintain the Enterprise Architecture for the MUFG Corporate Markets global business unit. This is a really exciting opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to be part of the growth and transformation of this department, playing a key role in plans for the future.

You will be based from our Leeds City Centre office on a hybrid working approach. Liaison with colleagues in our Mumbai and Australia locations will need to take place, involving regular out of standard UK working hours calls and occasional international travel.

By engaging with business representatives, you will establish and maintain the architectural building blocks that will, in course, be used to support and enable business objectives: These elements include Reference Models, Artefact Repository, Patterns, Frameworks, Tools, Methodology and Governance frameworks.

This role will involve consulting and the provision of recommendations to the MUFG Corporate Markets business unit through the formulation of a technology strategy, solution option analysis and cost/benefit analysis.

You will participate in and provide governance on major programs and projects to ensure that solutions are in line with the broader company-wide Enterprise Architecture and that expected business and IT benefits will be able to be realised. You will also support internal teams in the development of their MUFG Corporate Markets solution and services.

Benefits:

• 26 days annual leave, plus a wellbeing day, a volunteer day, bank holidays and the opportunity to buy up to 5 days’ extra each year
• Health, wellbeing and lifestyle rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family. Everything from: Employee Assistance Programme; Discounts on retail and socialising; Travel and technology; Cycle2Work scheme; A host of gym and fitness subscriptions; Car Salary Sacrifice scheme
• Appreciate Programme: Employee recognition programme
• Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Medical Insurance
• Paid Maternity, Paternity, Adoption Leave, Shared Parental Leave

What you need:

• Circa 15+ years of I.T experience, 10+ years in solution design and 5+ years in senior architect roles
• Exposure of both Infra and Application estate.
• Highly professional and self-motivated individual with the ability and desire to work with experienced I.T professionals in all disciplines in a dynamic, evolving environment.
• Solid experience implementing medium to large-scale distributed applications and application ecosystems.
• Experience in various integration concepts, patterns, and technologies.
• Have a solid working knowledge across infrastructure domains (network, compute, and storage).
• Personal qualities: innovative, resourceful, collaborative, energetic, and self-confident.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to document and present models, strategies, standards, and concepts to both business and I.T audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to learn business process and operations and apply technical solutions.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and within a team.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Strong communication, consulting, and negotiation skills.
• Effective research, analysis, and problem-solving skills.

Day to Day you will:

Strategic Focus

• Provide strategic I.T architecture vision, strategy and technology leadership for large programs and business transformation initiatives for MUFG Corporate Markets business.
• Provide integrated vision, roadmap, and steer to build standard solutions and technology change plans considering overarching scope and dependencies.

Operational Management

• Establish and maintain Architecture artefacts for the global MUFG Corporate Markets business unit.
• Review new and existing I.T projects to ensure compliance and integration with MUFG Pension and Market Services wide Enterprise Architecture.
• Identifying and investigating opportunities to utilise and integrate emerging technologies to provide cost effective, flexible solutions.
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of business plans and possible impacts to the business unit architecture. Engage regularly with business stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Develop and maintain an Architecture aligned to the I.T Strategy. Determine the roadmap required to support the implementation of the Architecture.
• Govern across and ensure that the scope and design of strategic projects are aligned with the target Architecture. Ensure that tactical initiatives risks and deviation from strategic plans are understood and communicated.
• Providing advanced technical consulting in multi-platform application environments.
• Performing advanced assignments as required, particularly in areas of difficulty, complexity, or critical need.
• Participates in and facilitates functional and technical designs of systems to ensure sound decisions are being made in alignment with current and future business and I.T strategies and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain conceptual, logical and physical architectures to meet requirements and strategies.

People Leadership

• Stakeholder management and leadership to drive global business and technology change.
• Supervise & mentor other architects into MUFG Pension & Market Services standards and best practices in the domain of I.T architecture and strategy.
• Key Member of the global technology leadership team and point of contact for Exec and Senior Stakeholder communication(s).