Lead Software Engineer, Vice President
San Diego, CA

Job Description

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 5th largest financial group in the world (as ranked by S&P Global, April 2018) with total assets of over $2.9 trillion (106.2 (JPY) as of March 30, 2018) and 150,000 colleagues in more than 50 countries. In the U.S., we're 13,000 strong, working together to positively impact every customer, organization, and community we serve. We achieve this by delivering on our values, putting people first, fostering long-term relationships built on honesty and mutual understanding, and inspiring the best in each other. This is all part of our inclusive, high-performing culture supported by Total Rewards that include our cash balance pension plan. Join a team that's working to fulfill its vision to be the world's most trusted financial group.

Job Summary

Performs in Team Lead capacity and demonstrates proactive leadership to assist Systems Manager and help lead the geographically distributed software development team with minimal supervision. Provides design recommendations based on long-term organization strategy and develops enterprise level application and custom integration solutions including major enhancements and interfaces, functions and features. At a lead level, develops standards and patterns for complex implementations. Has expert knowledge of state-of-the art design patterns, application security integration, vendor products, and tools for designing, coding, testing and debugging technology solutions. Acts as trusted technical liaison between business and technology stakeholders for providing the right and sustainable technology solutions that will deliver measurable business value in quick time-to-market fashion. Researches and maintains knowledge in emerging technologies and possible application to the business. Acts as an advocate, mentor and change agent within the organization.

Major Responsibilities

Assist Systems Manager, lead projects and the software development team and provide guidance/training to more junior staff. Understand technical solutions to develop integrated solutions to resolve highly complex technical and business issues. Recognized expert internally and externally within a discipline(s) and often provides strategic direction, guidance and integration of products and services. Plan and organize the development of architecture, technical support for platforms, and enterprise standards. Formulate system scope and objectives, refine the best practices and right procedures to deliver highly complex solutions or solve business problems. Evaluate software and system problems and recommend the right technology solutions to application systems requirements ensuring the architectural vision is supported. Be proactive driver to ensure overall data integrity and system regulatory compliance. Identify risk items, plan and resolve them in agree upon timeline.

* Develop standards and best practice procedures as well as solution architectures for securing API, web and mobile channels. Research and maintain high level knowledge in emerging technologies and vendor products for possible solutions and architectures to meet the business needs.


* Conduct code review for a broad variety of code quality factors. Plan and organize the development of technical support protocol, evaluate software and system problems and potential solutions to application systems requirements.


* Perform as a highly technical, result-oriented and customer-focused leader when working with various business and technology stakeholders to help brainstorm and finalize business requirements and product roadmaps in order to deliver enterprise goals. Conceive, plan and implement novel and sustainable approaches to solve complex business problems of diverse scope. Able to prepare and present complex technical concepts to executive management.


* Lead software development team and deliver highly complex projects "end to end". Work with other technology partners to ensure production stability. Set an example for rest of team, coach and mentor junior software engineers and assist Systems Manager to build high performing software development team.


* Establish project schedules and budget estimates. Create and maintain project plans and methodologies, project schedules and budget estimates.