Vice President, Data Products & Analytics Engineer

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.

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.

The Data Management Engineering organization is executing a product‑centric data strategy to deliver trusted, business‑aligned data products that power analytics, AI enablement, and critical decisioning across the enterprise. The organization partners closely with business, technology, and other stakeholders to ensure data assets are governed, scalable, and fit for regulatory and operational use across business domains.

The Vice President, Data Products & Analytics Engineer is a senior individual‑contributor reporting to the Head of Data Management Engineering. This role has broad responsibility for shaping data product strategy, assessing business requirements, defining solutions, and ensuring consistent standards across multiple data product initiatives. This role demands strong influence across business and technology organizations, with regular interaction with senior leaders to align data product roadmaps, platform architecture, and engineering execution to enterprise priorities and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities for Data Products & Analytics Engineer:

• Develop and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders to understand their business challenges and identify how data solutions can support their objectives.
• Empower business and corporate functions with robust data capabilities, ensuring clear lineage to products, services, and business processes, providing valuable data insights within the business context, and facilitating seamless data access.
• Optimize data product lifecycle management to drive modernization and value from our data assets. Identify process and procedural optimizations to advance data governance, management, and use.
• Proactively engage with data users to drive data maturity, adoption, and self-service. Facilitate a culture of continuous improvement and data systems thinking.
• Partner with senior business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and ensure data products enable analytics, reporting, and data consumption challenges.
• Contributes to the technical and product direction for a portfolio of well‑formed enterprise data products, translating complex business processes into curated, reusable, and governed data assets.
• Provide expertise on the end‑to‑end data product lifecycle, including data sourcing, design, engineering, quality, certification, and consumption readiness.
• Translate business and analytics requirements into clear data engineering specifications, and implementation plans. Apply modern data architecture patterns to enable scalable data consumption.
• Collaborate across engineering and analytics teams to promote common standards, tooling, and delivery practices in a matrixed environment.
• Enable advanced data consumption capabilities, including BI, self‑service analytics, and AI‑assisted querying under governed access controls.
• Contribute to data literacy and adoption by supporting documentation, data catalogs, and enablement of business data users.

Data Products & Engineering Expertise

• Demonstrated success modernizing data ecosystems through cloud‑based platforms, automation, and integrated data solutions that improve data quality, accessibility, governance, and enable advanced analytics and AI‑assisted data consumption.
• Proven ability to design, scale, and operate modern data architectures—including data marts, validation, and reconciliation frameworks—to enable end‑to‑end analytics and regulatory use cases.
• Strong hands‑on experience with cloud‑based data platforms and modern data architectures.
• Advanced SQL and strong experience with data transformation, profiling, validation, and reconciliation frameworks.
• Practical understanding of AI‑enabled data access patterns (semantic layers, natural language querying, curated retrieval) in regulated environments.
• Strong grounding in metadata management, lineage, data quality controls, and certification workflows.
• Experience in business, data, and application architecture and process re-engineering.

Leadership, Influence & Business Acumen

• Expertise in business requirements analysis, design, functional and detail design within the Banking & Financial Services sector.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with senior‑level autonomy and influence across business, technology, and risk organizations.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in clear business terms. Detail-oriented, but strategic in thinking with the ability to tell a story and sell a vision.
• Effective at building alignment, driving adoption, and managing competing priorities across a matrixed organization.
• Product‑oriented mindset with a balanced focus on near‑term delivery, risk management, and long‑term platform sustainability.
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus across business areas and other stakeholders to support new ways of thinking about capabilities.
• Ability to quickly transition as priorities change.

Technology & Tooling

• Expert knowledge of tools & techniques including cloud platforms, programming languages, and modern software engineering practices.
• Cloud data platforms such as Snowflake and AWS‑based data services.
• Enterprise data governance and metadata platforms such as Collibra.
• Data Virtualization platforms such as Starburst.
• ETL Tools such as Informatica
• BI and analytics tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Alteryx or equivalent platforms.
• Relational databases and enterprise data warehouse technologies.
• Agile delivery and collaboration tools including Jira and Confluence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data experience in the Banking & Financial Services sector from a technology, data, and/or business operations perspective.
• 10+ years of experience in data management and/or data product development.
• 7+ years of experience in business, systems, and data architecture, and analysis.
• Proven experience as a Data Engineer and/or Business Data Architect or similar role, with a focus on business value creation and enablement.
• Bachelor’s degree in science, business, management, or finance-related fields.
• Advanced degree is a plus.

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

• New York / New Jersey: $184k-237k
• Non–New York / New Jersey: $153k-188k

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

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

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.