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.
MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia.. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
As one of the top financial groups globally with a vision to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do. We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, MUFG Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.
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Main Purpose of the Role:
You will be supporting our Compliance Technology team, delivering against our objectives for EMEA. In this role you will be working within the projects development team:
- Define and oversee the system architecture, support developing and implementing the best practices
- Make key design decisions aligned with business goals and technical constraints
- Presents at demo sessions and can communicate proof of concepts to senior stakeholders
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to plan technical roadmap
- Break down large initiatives into manageable tasks or phases
- Ensure operational guides, workflows and documentation are updated and available on document management system
- Support junior developers through code reviews, pair programming and guidance
- Work with a diverse range of stakeholders and cross-functional teams to both run and improve the products
- Set long-term direction for codebase evolution, evaluate and propose new technologies
- To develop and provide SME knowledge to EMEA Technology and the EMEA Compliance Divisions on various Anti-Money Laundering & Sanction Screening products.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role, you will be responsible for providing the support listed below across MUFG’s bank and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Under this arrangement, you will act and make decisions on behalf of both the bank and the securities business, subject to the same remit and level of authority, and irrespective of the entity which employs you.
- Own the system architecture of AML platforms (rule engines, alert systems & data pipelines)
- Design scalable, secure and high-performance systems for transaction moitoring and batch analytics
- Translate AML regulatory/audit requirements (KYC, CDD, CRR) into actionable technical logic
- Oversee integration with third-party data providers (e.g., PEP/Sanctions lists, Vendors)
- Work closely with compliance, fincrime, risk and product teams to define and prioritize accordingly
- Act as a technical bridge between business needs and platform team
- Perform detailed data analysis as per business and regulatory requirements
- Provide technical feasibility assessments for AML use cases & estimate resources, timelines and system impact
- Prepare the CD/HLD/LLD & DFD
Skills and Experience:
Functional / Technical Competencies:
- Python
- Apache Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Powershell scripting
- Github
- JIRA/Confluence
- MongoDB, Microsoft SQL, SSIS
- Any knowledge of Behavox, Actimize, FICO Tonbeller suite of products
Work Experience:
- ETL/ELT Pipelines – Design and management of pipelines that handle massive transaction and customer data
- Data Quality, Lineage & Reconciliation – Ensuring traceability, accuracy and consistency across ingestion and transformation layers
- Rule Engines – Experience with dynamic rule configuration systems and tuning engines to reduce false positives
- Microservices & API – Experience building scalable AML systems using service-oriented architectures
- CI/CD Pipelines – Deploying detection logic and models rapidly while maintaining control and rollback ability
- System Analysis experience - preferably in a compliance technology environment
Preferable:
- AML Analyst experience - knowledge of below would be valuable
- AML environment
- Knowledge in Ecomms & Acomms Surveillance
- Knowledge in Trade Surveillance
- Sanction screening
- Transaction Monitoring (pattern matching)
Education / Qualifications:
- Degree level or 8+ year design/development experience in Finanical institution
Personal Requirements:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical stake holders
Strong analytical thinking & problem solving, plus soft sl
Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
Take full ownership of project delivery, quality and timelines
The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
Strong decision making skills with risk-managed mindset
We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.
We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.
