Data Platform Business Director

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 120,000 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:

The Data Platform Business Director will serve as the Business Owner of the bank’s enterprise data platforms, including data warehouses and the data lake. This leadership role carries end-to-end accountability for the strategic direction, operational oversight, and data quality of these platforms, ensuring they effectively support risk, regulatory, and business intelligence needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Ownership: Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for the bank’s data platforms, aligning with enterprise data strategy and regulatory expectations.

• Operational Oversight: Lead the day-to-day operations of the data warehouse and data lake environments, ensuring performance, scalability, and resilience.

• Data Quality & Controls: Oversee the implementation and continuous improvement of data quality controls, including profiling, monitoring, and remediation processes to ensure data is trusted, accurate, and fit-for-purpose.

• Governance & Compliance: Ensure adherence to data governance policies and regulatory requirements, particularly in support of risk and financial crimes compliance (FCC), AML, and KYC reporting.

• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of at least five professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with technology, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities meet evolving needs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data platform management, data governance, or enterprise data architecture within financial services.

• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks, regulatory reporting requirements, and risk data aggregation principles.

• Demonstrated leadership experience, including managing high-performing teams.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Familiarity with modern data technologies and cloud-based data platforms is a plus.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $173K - $216K 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

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