Lead Senior Cloud Data and Datastore Engineer, VP

Company: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

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. Job Summary: Seeking Senior Engineer with database, automation and development experience. (Hands-on engineering role focused on design, development and maintaining best practices for data stores) Position requires an experienced IT professional with advanced knowledge of developing automation modules and management of platforms that support Cloud Architecture, Cloud Datastores, Cloud Migration and Operational Activities. This role is within the Data-Platforms group, involves advancing cloud database automation techniques, developing cloud resource provisioning using Terraform / Cloud formation, data conversion & migration expertise, integration with different data workflow engines, familiarity with relational, No-SQL and data warehousing datastore internals. Software development with experience in data-driven environment is a plus – Familiarity with variety of development methods and tools; Safe Agile practices; Background of AWS Cloud (preferably) with exposure to DevOps practices. Key Responsibilities: Provide expert level IT technical services, including direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation and integration of new and existing technologies for Cloud. Responsible for development of methods, tools and data services to support operations of cloud infrastructure, provisioning, monitoring with IaaS, PaaS and SaaS models Deploy, automate, maintain and manage AWS cloud-based Production systems – ensure availability, performance, scalability and security Expertise with CI/CD delivery frameworks (e.g. Jenkins, Azure DevOps) infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation), configuration, management/orchestration tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible) and Code maintenance (GIT) Accountable for developing operational methods to review metrics / scorecards for cloud platform; Develop appropriate GUI interfaces and dashboards for effective management Manage the governance framework for DB-Services specific to hybrid and public cloud platforms, adhering to company security standards and integration with existing tools. Partner, collaborate and drive accountability with internal teams and technology vendors. Anticipate technological changes within a rapidly evolving environment. Suggest architectural and design improvements. Recommend process improvements Evaluate New technology – socialize & influence multiple internal teams (App-Dev, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security teams in the firm) Use scale agile development methodologies and work in product mindset environment Qualifications: Required : 8 years of IT experience or equivalent with programming and DBMS (datastore) management 8 years of IT experience or equivalent with programming and DBMS (datastore) management Essential Experience : Strong database experience in Cloud and on-premises database systems (Oracle, SQL server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop Bigdata, DW systems such as Snowflake/data bricks) Minimum of (2) years of experience with AWS, with multiple AWS services beyond traditional IaaS services. Familiarity with AWS Cloud services such as Lambda, Aurora, Dynamo DB, EMR, Glue, DMS, Quick sight, Athena, Airflow, SQS/SNS etc. Possess Coding skills of 2 years in Python, Scala and database procedural languages (PL/SQL, T-SQL, PG SQL etc) and automation scripting with Java Script / Node.JS Minimum of (2) years of experience with infrastructure and database automation/programming capability with Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible and Python. Manage large data migration projects: From On-prem to Cloud / from relational to DW or No-SQL or any other relevant experience Experience in CI/CD tools (Chef, ‘Cloudbees’, Puppet, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker) Preferred : AWS cloud Strategy: Business Case development, application assessment and migration planning AWS Security - Compliance, cloud security architecture, security tools / platforms, encryption/ KMS, CloudHSM, IAM roles/policies Exposure to ETL and data movement tools such as Talend, Informatica, AWS Glue, Data Sync, Apache Airflow; experience with data replication tools and methodology Exposure to Data Virtualization tools such as Starburst, Dremio and Denodo Experience with PowerShell, Rust/React, Django, Web services Well versed with Scale Agile methodology – team collaboration and work transparency Exposure to Spark programming Strong conceptual knowledge on compute, storage, networking, Linux, active directory, NAS systems Ability to design offer solutions – on databases and app-dev client interactions Understanding of Blue-green deployments and rolling updates. Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience The typical base pay range for this role is between $140K - $174K 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 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.

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