Enterprise Data and AI Architect, Vice President

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.

We are building a high-impact architecture team focused on advancing enterprise data platforms, AI capabilities, and information architecture at scale.

The Enterprise Data & AI Architect will lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and governed architectures that support analytics, operational workloads, and AI-driven innovation. This role spans data platforms, integration, semantic modeling, AI foundations, and enterprise governance, enabling consistent, reusable capabilities across the organization.

This position supports multiple architect tracks, and candidates will be aligned based on their strengths and experience:

• Data Platform Architecture
• Cloud Data & Integration Architecture
• AI & Data Architecture
• Knowledge / Semantic Architecture
• Data Product & Information Architecture
• Enterprise Data Architecture

• Design scalable enterprise data platforms (lakehouse, data warehouse, streaming, ingestion layers)
• Define modern integration patterns:
• ETL / ELT
  • Change Data Capture (CDC)
  • APIs and event-driven architectures
• Drive platform modernization, interoperability, and data movement strategies

• Architect AI-ready data foundations for analytics, machine learning, and generative AI
• Define and implement:
  • Semantic models
  • Ontologies
  • Metadata standards
  • Knowledge graph frameworks
• Enable advanced AI use cases including:
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Semantic search
  • Explainable AI patterns

• Design business-aligned data products and reusable data assets
• Define architectures for:
  • Metadata management
  • Data lineage
  • Data quality and governance
• Enable trusted, discoverable, and reusable data ecosystems

• Establish architecture standards, patterns, and reference models
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and governance processes
• Ensure alignment with enterprise strategy, risk, and compliance requirements

• Partner across engineering, cloud, AI, and governance teams
• Develop reusable:
  • Architecture templates
  • Standards and guidelines
  • Onboarding frameworks
• Provide hands-on guidance to delivery teams across platforms

• 8+ years of experience in:
  • Data Architecture
  • Platform Architecture
  • AI Architecture or related fields
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms and integration solutions
• Strong expertise in:
  • Data storage, processing, and integration architectures
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Modern data paradigms (lakehouse, warehouses, APIs, event-driven systems)
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable architectures
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working in cross-functional enterprise environments

• ETL / ELT, CDC, streaming, APIs
• Scalability, performance optimization, resiliency

• AI / ML, Generative AI, RAG
• AI-ready data foundations and MLOps alignment

• Ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic modeling
• Metadata, lineage, and AI trust frameworks

• Data products and domain-aligned data models
• Metadata strategy and data governance

• Architecture standards, operating models, and governance
• ARB participation and capability frameworks

• Experience with modern platforms such as:
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
• Exposure to:
  • Data mesh or federated data models
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., financial services)
• Familiarity with:
  • Metadata platforms
  • Governance tooling
• Knowledge of:
  • Infrastructure-as-Code
  • CI/CD
  • MLOps practices

• Strong systems thinking and architectural design skills
• Ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences
• Excellent collaboration and cross-functional leadership
• Ability to influence without authority
• Structured, analytical problem-solving mindset

If you’re passionate about building scalable data ecosystems, AI-ready platforms, and enterprise architecture frameworks, this role gives you the opportunity to drive real impact at scale.

•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $172k – $191k

depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes 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, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

MUFG Benefits Summary