Solution Architecture, Vice President

MUFG • Tampa, FL

21h • $143,000 - $191,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Business and Solution Architect is a senior, enterprise-level role responsible for aligning business strategy with technology execution. The position works across business and technical domains to design and deliver scalable, end-to-end solutions supporting organizational transformation and growth. It translates complex business needs into architecture designs and roadmaps and guides implementation across applications, data, and cloud platforms while considering security, performance, and long-term sustainability. The architect partners with stakeholders and delivery teams, influences strategic direction, drives architectural governance, and supports successful execution of large-scale initiatives. The role combines business architecture expertise with deep technical knowledge and requires effectiveness in complex, cross-functional environments.

The selected colleague works at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and remotely one day per week. The role may be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. MUFG provides eligible colleagues a benefits package that includes health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. Visa sponsorship or support is based on business needs and is not anticipated for this position.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in business architecture and solution architecture.
• Experience with enterprise, application, and information architecture.
• Ability to operate at both the strategic business level, including capabilities, processes, and operating models, and the technical solution level, including systems, applications, and cloud architecture.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture, security, and networking, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of AI and core AI interaction patterns, including agentic use cases.
• Experience with distributed systems, SOA, APIs, and modern application architectures.
• Strong understanding of business processes, capability modeling, and enterprise transformation.
• Experience aligning business strategy with technical delivery.
• Strong programming or development background.
• Ability to translate business strategies into technical architectures and implementation roadmaps.
• Experience developing business architecture artifacts, such as capability models, process flows, and value streams.
• Experience developing technical architecture designs across application, data, integration, and infrastructure.
• Expertise defining and managing functional and non-functional requirements and enterprise roadmaps for target-state architecture.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns, workflow automation and process optimization, and architecture modeling tools and frameworks.
• Ability to design end-to-end enterprise solutions across business, application, data, and technology layers.
• Experience communicating complex architectures through diagrams, executive presentations, and documentation.
• Familiarity with Agile and modern software delivery methodologies.
• Ability to influence and guide senior leadership and technology teams.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement; excellent communication and storytelling across business and technical audiences.
• Strategic thinking, a systems mindset, advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to operate in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Collaboration across business and technology functions; trusted-advisor mindset and sound decision-making.
• Continuous learning and innovation mindset; ability to mentor and develop team members; high integrity and accountability.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and compliance, preferably in financial services.
• Knowledge of corporate banking, transaction banking, lending, credit, supply chain finance, regulatory and compliance, accounting/general ledger, Know Your Customer, or anti-money laundering.
• Architecture background using TOGAF, Ardoq, or other tools to document business systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise business architecture, including capability models, business process frameworks, and current- and future-state architectures.
• Align business strategy, operating models, and technology investments; define and evolve business and technology roadmaps.
• Analyze organizational needs and identify opportunities for transformation and optimization using structured business architecture methods and best practices.
• Design end-to-end enterprise solutions across cloud platforms, applications, data and integration layers, infrastructure, and networking.
• Translate business requirements into technical architecture and implementation designs.
• Define application components, interfaces, integration patterns, platforms, and development tools.
• Lead architecture for distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented environments, ensuring alignment with security, scalability, and operational requirements.
• Develop and manage architecture roadmaps and delivery sequencing; support design, build, deployment, and optimization throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to support successful implementation and optimize solutions for performance, cost, and scalability.
• Conduct risk assessments and ensure adherence to quality and architecture governance.
• Communicate architecture vision and solutions to business stakeholders, technical teams, and executive leadership.
• Act as a trusted advisor across business and technology domains and drive stakeholder alignment around target architecture.
• Mentor and guide architects, engineers, and analysts.
• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies; introduce modern architecture practices and frameworks.
• Improve architecture processes, tools, and governance, and promote reuse of architecture artifacts as organizational assets.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Retirement plans
• Educational assistance and training programs
• Income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities
• Paid maternity and parental bonding leave
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick days
• Paid holidays
• Potential discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed