Solution Architecture, Vice President
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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:
The Business & Solution Architect is a senior, enterprise-level role responsible for aligning business strategy with technology execution. This position works across business and technical domains to design and deliver scalable, end-to-end solutions that support organizational transformation and growth.
This role translates complex business needs into actionable architecture designs and roadmaps, guiding implementation across applications, data, and cloud platforms while ensuring security, performance, and long-term sustainability. Partnering closely with stakeholders and delivery teams, the architect influences strategic direction, drives architectural governance, and ensures successful execution of large-scale initiatives.
The ideal candidate combines strong business architecture expertise with deep technical knowledge and operates effectively in complex, cross-functional environments to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Business & Enterprise Architecture
- Develop and maintain enterprise business architecture, including:
- Capability models
- Business process frameworks
- Align business strategy, operating models, and technology investments
- Define and evolve business and technology roadmaps
- Analyze organizational needs and identify opportunities for transformation and optimization
- Apply structured business architecture methodologies and best practices
2. Solution Architecture & Design
- Design end-to-end enterprise solutions across:
- Cloud platforms
- Applications
- Data and integration layers
- Infrastructure and networking
- Translate business requirements into technical architecture and implementation designs
- Define:
- Application components
- Interfaces and integration patterns
- Platforms and development tools
- Lead architecture for distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented environments
- Ensure alignment with security, scalability, performance, and operational requirements
3. Delivery & Execution
- Develop and manage architecture roadmaps
- Support full lifecycle delivery:
- Design
- Build
- Deployment
- Optimization
- Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation
- Optimize solutions for performance, cost, and scalability
- Conduct risk assessments and ensure adherence to quality and governance standards
4. Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
- Communicate architecture vision and solutions to:
- Business stakeholders
- Technical teams
- Executive leadership
- Act as a trusted advisor across business and technology domains
- Drive alignment to target architecture across stakeholders
- Mentor and guide architects, engineers, and analysts
- Lead cross-functional collaboration in complex environments
5. Architecture Governance & Innovation
- Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies
- Introduce modern architecture practices and frameworks
- Improve architecture processes, tools, and governance
- Promote reuse of architecture artifacts as enterprise assets
Preferred Industry Knowledge
- Corporate Banking
- Transaction Banking
- Lending & Credit
- Supply Chain Finance
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Accounting / General Ledger
- Know Your Customer (KYC)
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Experience with architecture frameworks/tools such as TOGAF, Ardoq, or similar
Requirements:
- 10-15 years of experience in business and solution architecture
- Experience across enterprise, application, and information architecture
- Proven ability to operate at both:
- Strategic business level (capabilities, processes, operating models)
- Technical solution level (systems, applications, cloud architecture)
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise solutions
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), security, and networking
- Experience with distributed systems, SOA, APIs, and modern application architectures
- Knowledge of AI concepts and interaction patterns, including agentic use cases
- Strong understanding of business processes, capability modeling, and transformation
- Experience aligning business strategy to technical delivery
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (financial services preferred)
- Strong programming or development background
Functional & Leadership Skills
- Ability to translate business strategy into architecture and implementation roadmaps
- Experience developing:
- Business architecture artifacts (capability models, value streams, process flows)
- Technical architecture designs (application, data, integration, infrastructure)
- Expertise in defining and managing:
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Target-state enterprise architecture roadmaps
- Strong experience with:
- Cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns
- Workflow automation and process optimization
- Architecture modeling tools and frameworks
- Ability to design end-to-end solutions across all architecture layers
- Strong communication skills with ability to convey complex concepts through:
- Diagrams
- Executive presentations
- Documentation
Core Competencies
- Strategic thinking with a systems mindset
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management
- Ability to influence senior leadership and technical teams
- Ability to operate in complex, ambiguous environments
- Collaborative, cross-functional mindset
- Trusted advisor with strong decision-making ability
- Continuous learning and innovation mindset
- High integrity and accountability
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”
The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:
- New York / New Jersey: $172k – $191k
- Non–New York / New Jersey: $143k – $191k
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.