VP – Data Products and AI Enablement
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group1 day ago
Base Salary
$137k - $188k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend data and AI platforms for commercial banking, risk, finance, operations, and enterprise data use cases.
- Build production-grade AI infrastructure including vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, AI agents, semantic retrieval, and intelligent data services.
- Develop high-volume data pipelines and distributed processing frameworks using Python, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, and cloud-native technologies.
- Optimize storage, retrieval, indexing, and compute performance across structured, unstructured, and vector datasets.
- Develop and operationalize AI/ML workloads across cloud infrastructure, including model serving, inference, retrieval, evaluation, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Partner with data scientists, AI engineers, product managers, architects, cybersecurity, risk, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of progressive software, backend, platform, or data engineering experience, including enterprise-scale distributed systems and production data platforms.
- Knowledge of data security, governance, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, and performance optimization.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
- Preferred advanced degree or relevant cloud, data engineering, Kubernetes, or AI/ML certifications.
- Preferred experience delivering technology solutions in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Preferred experience partnering with cybersecurity, data governance, model risk, architecture, and control functions.
Benefits
- 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.
- Hybrid schedule requiring four days per week at an MUFG office or client site and one remote day per week.
- The role may be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation.
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About Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is a publicly traded Japanese banking group headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, offering commercial and investment banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing to consumers, corporations, and institutions. It generates revenue from lending interest, transaction fees, and investment services. Formed in 2005 through the merger of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group and UFJ Holdings, MUFG operates globally across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific markets.