Interfaces BAU Team Lead

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the worlds leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history MUFG has a global network with 1100 offices in over 40 countries. The Group has over 140000 employees offering services including corporate banking commercial banking retail banking wealth management investment banking capital markets personal and corporate trust and transaction banking.

The Groups operating companies include Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (Japans leading trust bank) and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co. Ltd. one of Japans largest securities firms.

MUFG conducts securities business internationally through its overseas subsidiaries MUFG Securities EMEA plc MUFG Securities Americas Inc. MUFG Securities Asia Limited. and MUFG Securities Asia (Singapore) Limited. With each member of the group working in partnership with one another MUFG providesbest in class service and products to corporate and institutional clients.

MUFG Securities EMEA plc is the European hub of MUFGs securities business. Headquartered in London we have just over 600 employees and are active throughout the international capital markets focusing on debt equity derivatives and structured products. Due to the diverse nature of our business we require a clear unifying vision for all of our people. It is this vision and our corporate values that reflect who we are and guide how we behave. We therefore strive to recruit individuals who share our vision and values and who have the motivation and commitment to help us move our business forward.

The Corporate Technology Department provides a full range of IT service to all areas of the MUFG securities business. Working within Corporate Technology the Interfaces Team supports and develops solutions which underpin the system architecture.

The Interfaces function within AMD EMEA Technology is responsible for the support stability and ongoing evolution of middleware and integration platforms that underpin critical frontoffice middleoffice and downstream processing systems. These platforms are businesscritical with direct impact on Straight Through Processing (STP) activities across the middleware estate supports both realtime and nearrealtime integrations including frontofficefacing services and operates in a demanding highavailability environment with strict controls around resilience change and operational risk.

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS

(mix of on-shore and off-shore resources including:

• Offshore L1 / L2 Support Analysts
• Onshore Developers / L3 Support Engineers

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

To lead manage and continuously improve a blended team of support analysts and developers responsible for the endtoend BAU support and controlled development of a businesscritical middleware platform. The role has accountability across L1 to L3 support production stability incident response problem management and delivery of minor enhancements while ensuring high service levels for frontoffice and STPcritical systems.

The role combines people leadership operational ownership stakeholder engagement and handson technical oversight in a fastpaced highpressure environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership & People Management

• Line management of a mixed onshore/offshore team including developers (L3) and support analysts (L1/L2)
• Define clear roles responsibilities and escalation paths across support tiers
• Drive performance management objective setting coaching and career development
• Build a strong partnership with offshore teams to ensure effective knowledge transfer quality and accountability
• Create a culture of ownership continuous improvement and operational excellence

Service Ownership & BAU Operations

• Overall ownership of BAU service for middleware platforms including availability stability and performance
• Accountable for:
  • Incident problem and root cause management
  • Major incident coordination and communication with technology and business stakeholders
  • Reduction of repeat incidents through structural fixes and automation
• Ensure effective L1/L2 support triage with timely escalation to L3 where required
• Maintain and continuously improve support documentation runbooks and knowledge bases

Platform Stability & STP Enablement

• Ensure middleware platforms meet the resilience scalability and latency requirements of frontoffice and STPcritical flows
• Proactively identify risks to STP processing and mitigate through system improvements and operational controls
• Monitor platform health capacity and throughput working with infrastructure and architecture teams where required

Delivery & Technical Oversight

• Provide handson technical leadership across support and development activities
• Oversee delivery of minor enhancements fixes and tactical improvements to supported platforms
• Ensure solutions are aligned with existing architecture frameworks and reusable components
• Enforce high standards for:
  • Code quality
  • Testing (unit integration and regression)
  • Documentation
• Deputise for the Head of Interfaces when required

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a key technology contact for frontoffice operations and business stakeholders
• Balance competing priorities across BAU stability regulatory obligations and change delivery
• Provide clear timely and transparent communication during incidents and service issues
• Build strong working relationships across Technology Operations and Business teams

Risk Controls & Compliance

• Ensure all support and development activity complies with internal policies audit standards and regulatory requirements
• Strict adherence to:
  • Change management processes
  • Privileged access and production controls
  • SDLC and release governance
• Proactively identify and remediate operational and technical risks

Culture & Values

• Actively promote MUFGs valuesled inclusive and collaborative culture
• Lead by example in cyber awareness operational discipline and professional conduct
• Encourage continuous learning and improvement across the team

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Proven experience supporting and developing middleware or integration platforms within financial services
• Experience operating in a productioncritical frontofficefacing environment
• Strong background in BAU service management including L1L3 operational models
• Demonstrable experience working within controlled SDLC environments (e.g. ITIL SDLC Agile/Waterfall hybrids)

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of transactional messaging and STP architectures
• Solid understanding of middleware technologies and integration patterns
• Hands-on experience with Java-based platforms including integration using FIX messaging and IBM MQ
• Familiarity with front-office and back-end integration patterns with exposure to low-latency and high-throughput systems
• Experience working with or migrating towards API-driven architectures (e.g. RESTful services) as part of platform modernisation initiatives
• Experience with production support incident management and root cause analysis
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
• Experience leading distributed or offshore teams

Education / Qualifications

• Degree educated or equivalent experience.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication skills
• Results driven with a strong sense of accountability
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
• Strong decision making with the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong problem solving and numerical skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
• The ability to lead a high performing team

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.