Engineering Lead – Core Banking Transformation

Job Description

Director, Core Banking Platform Lead | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, located in Singapore. MUFG is one of the world’s leading financial groups, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, the company puts people first and collaborates toward greater innovation, speed, and agility. This role is crucial for driving the Bank’s Core Banking technology initiatives and refining IT project delivery practices within the Asia Systems Office.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Singapore – Singapore, Singapore

• Team: Regional team within the Information Technology Department under Systems Office for Asia
• Mission: Owns leading Core Banking programs and initiatives, ensuring robust technical solutions and improved IT delivery within the Asia Systems Office.
• Tech Stack: Temenos T24 transact, open API

What You’ll Actually Do
• Leadership: Lead Core Banking (Temenos T24 transact) programs and initiatives across the Asia System Office, planning and overseeing T24 developments.
• Requirements Management: Manage the gathering and assessment of business requirements, translating them into technical design documents for T24 solutions.
• Solutioning & Support: Provide application solutioning expertise and advice to the team throughout system implementation stages and during incident investigation.
• Platform Quality: Review T24 platform build quality, underlying development and testing processes, system performance, and drive improvement plans accordingly.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Oversee the preparation of communications and make presentations to senior stakeholders, including external vendors, on system opportunities and constraints.

The Must-Haves
• Background: An Engineering Lead with proven knowledge and implementation experience in digital transformation, specifically Core Banking Transformation, application tuning, and DevOps.
• Experience: Minimum 15 years in software development, application support, or Core Banking with project and stakeholder management, or regional platform transformation experience. Proven experience in Core Banking with Temenos T24 Technical and Functional Area and Development, or equivalent Tier 1 critical transaction processing platform experience.
• Skills: Demonstrated experience in the full Project Life Cycle (inception to implementation) with SDLC methodologies and Agile; strong stakeholder management and team management experience, including large, distributed, and offshore teams; analytical and critical thinking; deep dive problem solving, root cause analysis, and systemic thinking.
• Bonus: Subject Matter Expertise in core banking services supporting cash management and payment domains, such as open API, 24/7 instant payment, cash pooling, and client reporting.