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Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 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.

In this role you will apply your technical expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many technical and business stakeholders daily. Whether balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders or supporting more senior staff on complex projects, you use data and analysis and apply your software experience, judgment, and risk mindset across your responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Provides L1, L2, L3 support for all Capital Markets systems and Business users (Front Office, Operations, Middle Office, Regulatory Reporting, etc.).

• Troubleshoots issues and problems, comes up with clear action plan(s) to resolve such issues, develops, tests, and implements the agreed solution into production, following the Bank’s enterprise policies and procedures.

• Acts as IT lead for projects requiring not only development, but also coordination with other teams, business analysis and testing.

• Partnering with subject matter experts (SME) to translate project objectives and requirements into a detailed technical requirement document with timelines, task lists and next steps.

• Works closely with Business users to document, define and track project technical requirements, milestones, and deliverables for one or many projects.

• Organizes the work assignments of key technical projects and communicates to all project participants concisely, leveraging JIRA.

• Interacting closely with project managers, internal constituents, and external vendors to deliver the work assigned to the development team.

• Liaising with the various vendors to learn their systems and look for improvements.

• Working on any Capital Markets initiative requiring the assistance of the developer.

• Always looks for Improvements and ways to better run the business and the platforms.

• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders; quickly learn from existing documentation and with minimal guidance; execute with limited information and ambiguity.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of software development experience following enterprise standards.

• 5+ years of programming experience in a modern language such as Java, Python or C#.

• 5+ years of experience with web technologies such as Restful Services, JavaScript.

• Working knowledge of vendor applications such as MSCI Risk Metrics Analytics, mOLAP solutions (Oracle Hyperion Essbase, AcvtiveViam Atoti or other), cros-asset front-to-back Trading platforms (Calypso, Murex, ION, Sophis, etc.).

• 5+ years of experience with application design, development, deployment and after care support.

• Experience in designing data models and structures and formulating storage strategies.

• Prefer prior experience working with front, middle or back-office teams in a financial institution.

• Experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting applications in Unix/Linux based environments.

• Experience with RDBMS based databases such as Oracle and SQL Server or NoSQL databases.

• Cloud experience, preferably in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Experience with virtualization, containerization and serverless computing.

• Integration of Machine Learning libraries and frameworks to apply in NLP tasks and ability to perform statistical analysis and refine data models will be a plus.

• Experience with monitoring systems and diagnostic tools.

• Trained in CI/CD principles and DevOps workflow tools such as Azure DevOps or Jenkins.

• Hands on experience using Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.).

• Working knowledge of best practices regarding remediation of Application Security and Software Vulnerabilities.
  • Excellent knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design patterns.

• Experience with major public cloud offerings and how to solve designs that are built around these technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).

• Knowledge of SDLC/SCM.

• Strong programming skills in Java or C# using object-oriented principles.

• Development experience with PL/SQL databases, including stored procedures, database triggers and packages.

• Must possess organizational, problem-solving and time management skills with ability to meet deadlines.

• Effective verbal and written communicator; able to present complex issues and solutions with appropriate levels of detail to diverse (technical and non-technical) audiences.

• Broad functional understanding of Fixed Income, Derivatives (IRS, CDS) and Foreign Exchange financial instruments and trade lifecycle.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Finance or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and/or work experience.

• Certifications in AWS Cloud Practitioner/Developer and Object-Oriented Programming languages.

Other Qualifications: 

• As per MUFG’s work policy, must work onsite 4 days and 1 day remotely out of either Jersey City, NJ, Tampa, FL, or Tempe, AZ office.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $120K - $150K 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.                                                                                                                                                         
MUFG Benefits Summary

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.