Trade Finance Solutions Technology Lead, VP

MUFG • Jersey City, NJ

2d • $140,000 - $188,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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 150,000 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. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details. Role Summary: We are seeking a technology leader with deep expertise in Trade Finance to support and drive initiatives across Working Capital and Trade solutions. The role requires active participation in the development and maintenance of Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance applications. The candidate should have experience working as a Technology lead, collaborating closely with business stakeholders to gather requirements, translate them into clear inputs for systems development teams and build technology solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background, enabling effective collaboration with multiple technical teams supporting complex applications. A solid financial services background is required, with a strong preference for Trade Finance domain expertise and hands on experience with the T360 application from CGI Inc. The role also requires knowledge of relational databases, including the ability to create queries, extract data, and work with Business Objects. The candidate should be able to work independently and collaboratively across cross functional teams with minimal direction from senior management. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential. Experience in application development on data platforms is required, including the use of structured query language (SQL), extract transform load (ETL) tools such as Informatica, and object-oriented programming languages including Java, Python, and C#. Experience in AWS, Spark and Glue. As a key member of the organization, the candidate will contribute to the design, development, and implementation of modern software solutions that enhance Trade Finance capabilities. Expertise in commercial banking products, payment processing, loan products, and industry platforms such as CGI’s T360 will be critical in driving innovation and delivering seamless customer experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
• 8+ years of work experience within a technology organization in the banking, financial services, or financial technology industries is required
• 8+ years of work experience in Trade Finance domain and hands on experience with the T360 application from CGI Inc.
• Experience in structured query language (SQL), extract-transform-load (ETL) tools
• Previous experience working in regulated industry and matrixed organization required
• Work experience in Trade Finance domain and hands on experience with the T360 application from CGI Inc
• Candidates must have experience working in a technology organization within the banking, financial services, or fintech industries.
• Experience in Trade Finance domain required.
• Demonstrates leadership
• Communicates effectively
• Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• Operates strategically to support a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking
• Makes sound business decisions in a complex work environment
• Collaborates with other business functions and divisions to advance business objectives
• Is flexible, decisive, and able to establish support from leadership
• Monitors industry trends and best practices and applies insights to advance the business
• Exhibits and fosters optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• Inspires innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent
• Always acts with integrity
• Iterative problem-solving
• Serving as a trusted advisor
• Experience managing teams in Agile environments
• Programming/systems analysis experience with emphasis in applications and systems, architectural and database design and development
• Strong experience in writing complex queries; experience working with enterprise database management system (DBMS) such as Oracle, DB2 or SQL, and with stored procedures
• Experience in AWS, Spark and Glue.
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Cloud experience, preferably in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with RDBMS based databases such as Oracle and SQL Server or NoSQL DBs such as DynamoDB.
• Experience with monitoring systems
• Knowledgeable in CI/CD principles
• Knowledgeable in DevOps workflow tooling
• Knowledgeable on Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to research and learn new methodologies and technologies and bring knowledge to the team
• Ability to present information to wide variety of audiences including senior management

Responsibilities

• Participate in all phases of software engineering life cycle and troubleshoot technical problems as needed.
• Design, develop, and maintain applications, infrastructure, and platform according to changing requirements and following established processes and procedures.
• Facilitating in the integration of third party services, applications and functionalities.
• Lead in designing, developing, coding, and/or enhancing applications, features, infrastructure, and/or application frameworks
• Monitor, test, analyze, and evaluate application performance; resolve issues and/or recommend improvements.
• Provide guidance and technical instruction to junior level engineers.
• Conduct needs analyses and requirements assessments, assess technical viability of products/technologies, contribute to development of business cases, and consult and make recommendations on technical solutions to meet specific business requirements
• Consult on database development, database transaction management, and application integration for various systems or platforms.
• Test, debug, and/or oversee the testing and validation of applications to ensure that quality and functionality are in line with the requirements, as well as industry standards and protocols.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees