Senior Enterprise Architect

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Job Description

Overview

As Senior Enterprise Architect, you will develop and maintain the Enterprise Architecture for the MUFG Corporate Markets global business unit. This is an 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 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 align with the broader company-wide Enterprise Architecture and that expected business and IT benefits are realized. You will also support internal teams in the development of their MUFG Corporate Markets solutions and services.

Benefits:

• 26 days annual leave, plus a wellbeing day, a volunteer day, bank holidays, and the opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days each year.
• Health, wellbeing and lifestyle rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family, including: Employee Assistance Programme; Discounts on retail and socializing; 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 IT experience, 10+ years in solution design, and 5+ years in senior architect roles.
• Exposure to both Infrastructure and Application estate.
• Highly professional and self-motivated individual with the ability and desire to work with experienced IT 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.
• 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 IT audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to learn business processes and operations and apply technical solutions.
• Excellent organizational 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.
• Strong negotiation, influencing, and relationship-building skills.

Day to Day you will:

Strategic Focus

• Provide strategic IT 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 IT projects to ensure compliance and integration with MUFG Pension and Market Services wide Enterprise Architecture.
• Identify and investigate opportunities to utilize and integrate emerging technologies to provide cost-effective, flexible solutions.
• Maintain 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 IT 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 deviations from strategic plans are understood and communicated.
• Provide advanced technical consulting in multi-platform application environments.
• Perform advanced assignments as required, particularly in areas of difficulty, complexity, or critical need.
• Participate in and facilitate functional and technical designs of systems to ensure sound decisions are made in alignment with current and future business and IT 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 IT architecture and strategy.
• Key Member of the global technology leadership team and point of contact for Exec and Senior Stakeholder communications.

About Us

MUFG Pension & Market Services is a global, digitally enabled business connecting millions of people with their assets - safely, securely, and responsibly.

Through our two businesses MUFG Retirement Solutions and MUFG Corporate Markets, we partner with a diversified portfolio of global clients to provide robust, efficient, and scalable services, purpose-built solutions, and modern technology platforms that deliver world-class outcomes and experiences.

A member of MUFG, a global financial group, we help manage regulatory complexity, improve data management, and connect people with their assets, through exceptional user experience that leverages the expertise of our people combined with scalable technology, digital connectivity, and data insights.

About the Team

Our MUFG Corporate Markets division provides clients with a comprehensive corporate market offering that connects issuers to their stakeholders. Our uniquely integrated range of corporate markets capabilities includes shareholder management and analytics, stakeholder engagement, share and unit registry, and employee share plans. We also offer company secretarial support, as well as various specialist offerings such as insolvency solutions. We operate in twelve countries throughout Australasia, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, United Kingdom, and Europe.

Our teams combine a wealth of industry experience with a rigorous focus on client management to deliver a premium service underpinned by market-leading digital technology provided by our Technology division.

MUFG Pension & Market Services is building a dynamic, client-focused, caring, and inclusive culture that is built on the foundations of an entrepreneurial spirit, effective risk management, empathy, and trust, and underpinned by its core values.

We are an inclusive employer whose people work collaboratively. We encourage, support, and value the various talents and perspectives of our people and promote a flexible and blended work environment where our people can thrive and their well-being is supported. We know that diversity drives better client outcomes, continuous improvement, and growth. Be part of the MUFG Pension & Market Services journey and together we will achieve our full potential.

We treat all individuals fairly and equitably and do not discriminate on the basis of diverse characteristics including, but not limited to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, cultural background, physical abilities/disabilities, religious or political belief, marital or family status, or carer responsibilities.

Candidates must have the relevant work rights to be considered for an opportunity at MUFG Pension & Market Services. Successful applicants will be required to complete background screening prior to commencement of employment.