Solution Architecture, Director

MUFG • Toronto, ON

10d

About The Position

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups, with 150,000 colleagues globally. MUFG strives to make a difference for every client, organization, and community, standing for 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, MUFG's culture emphasizes putting people first, listening to diverse ideas, and collaborating for innovation, speed, and agility, investing in talent, technologies, and tools to empower careers. The Business and Solutions Architect for the Global Markets business is a senior role within the Technology organization. This role is accountable for translating Global Markets business strategy, regulatory drivers, and operational challenges into executable technology architectures and delivery outcomes. Operating in close partnership with Global Markets business leaders, traders, Product Owners, and functional stakeholders, the architect acts as a trusted architectural advisor and delivery partner. The architect ensures business problems are clearly defined, economically justified, and solved through pragmatic, secure, and scalable technology solutions, shaping the end-to-end journey from business problem definition through architecture, investment rationale, and delivery alignment. The role influences delivery outcomes by setting architectural direction, guiding trade-offs, and ensuring solutions are implemented in line with the target state.

Requirements

• Strong experience Global Markets products, including exposure to trading, risk, operations, data, or regulatory reporting.
• Proven ability to translate complex business problems into executable technology architectures and delivery outcomes.
• Experience with application rationalization, platform modernization, or large scale transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience developing business cases incorporating total cost of ownership and return on investment.
• Strong communication skills with executive, business, and engineering audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in regulated financial institutions or broker dealer environments.
• Familiarity with market data, reference data, trade processing, and risk platforms.
• Experience with cloud modernization, data platforms, and artificial intelligence enablement in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the translation of business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational challenges into clearly defined technical problem statements, target architectures, and delivery roadmaps.
• Partner with Global Markets business stakeholders and Product Owners to ensure that technology initiatives are grounded in business outcomes and regulatory realities.
• Own architectural decisions from concept through delivery, partnering with engineering leads and delivery owners to ensure solutions are implemented in line with the intended design and adjusted deliberately when trade-offs are required.
• Drive the strategic rationalization of applications, platforms, and business processes across the securities domain to reduce duplication, complexity, and long-term cost.
• Assess legacy and overlapping capabilities and define target state simplification strategies aligned with business priorities and regulatory constraints.
• Ensure rationalization initiatives are integrated into delivery plans and investment decisions rather than treated as standalone exercises.
• Work with Global Markets leaders and support functions to develop solutions to day-to-day challenges.
• Solve complex, cross-functional gaps between business line and support function needs by designing and implementing scalable technology solutions, including: Addressing regulatory and internal risk, capital and liquidity calculation challenges; Optimizing collateral usage and funding efficiency across trading and treasury activities; Identifying and automating manual processes across operations, risk, treasury and finance; Bridging integration gaps between new products and existing trading platforms to ensure seamless execution and minimize unexpected breaks; Developing tactical data and workflow solutions to mitigate limitations in third-party vendor systems.
• Develop and support business plans and investment cases that articulate total cost of ownership, return on investment, and risk trade offs.
• Quantify the economic impact of architectural decisions, including cost reduction, scalability, resiliency, and operational efficiency benefits.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to ensure architectural recommendations are commercially sound and outcome driven.
• Identify and architect opportunities to drive efficiency through the use of artificial intelligence and automation across data processing, operational workflows, controls, and reporting.
• Work with AI and Data Platform Teams to ensure AI enabled solutions are designed with appropriate governance, transparency, and control considerations from inception.
• Translate AI opportunities into concrete use cases, architectural patterns, and delivery plans that produce measurable business value.
• Design end-to-end solution architectures spanning applications, data, integration, cloud infrastructure, and security.
• Define architectural patterns for trading platforms, market and reference data, risk, counterparty and instrument mastering, and post trade processing.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, cloud operating models, resiliency expectations, and security requirements.
• Define architectures for market data, reference data, instrument, and counterparty domains, ensuring data quality, lineage, and regulatory traceability.
• Establish API, messaging, and event driven integration patterns to support real time and batch securities use cases.
• Collaborate with Data Architecture teams on domain models, analytics enablement, and data governance.
• Embed risk, control, resiliency, and auditability requirements directly into solution designs.
• Ensure technology solutions meet regulatory and compliance expectations applicable to securities businesses without compromising delivery effectiveness.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders to ensure architectural decisions are defensible and scalable.
• Act as the primary architectural interface between Technology teams and Global Markets business stakeholders.
• Lead architecture reviews, design workshops, and governance forums.
• Provide ongoing architectural guidance through delivery to ensure solutions achieve intended outcomes and are operationally sustainable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees