AI Engineer, VP

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.

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GMEO (Global Markets Engineering Office) provides engineering capability, delivery discipline and scalable technology enablement for Global Markets. Global Markets AI is the specialist team responsible for AI strategy, engineering standards, reusable delivery patterns and responsible AI adoption across Global Markets.

The AI Centre of Excellence (AI CoE) defines the enterprise framework, standards, reusable patterns, controls and delivery practices for the responsible adoption of AI across MUFG. Function Aligned AI Engineers are embedded into a specific business or support function to translate functional priorities into safe, practical and measurable AI-enabled outcomes while remaining aligned to Global Markets AI and AI CoE standards.

The role holder will work closely with process owners, risk and control stakeholders, technology teams, data owners, Global Markets AI and the AI CoE to identify, design, build and embed AI solutions that improve productivity, control effectiveness, employee and conduct governance, decision support and operational resilience.

The role holder will work together to support the control environment, conduct framework, workforce governance and regulatory expectations for employees operating across Bank and Securities entities. Compliance typically oversees conduct risk, financial crime, market abuse surveillance, communications monitoring, conflicts, personal account dealing, client classification, regulatory reporting oversight, training and supervisory engagement.

MAIN PURPOSE OF

THE ROLE The Function Aligned AI Engineer - is responsible for accelerating responsible AI adoption while ensuring alignment with MUFG's AI policy, data governance, technology standards, control framework, Global Markets AI engineering standards and risk appetite.

The role will identify and prioritise high-value AI use cases, with clear linkage to control effectiveness, conduct governance, employee lifecycle efficiency, productivity, service improvement or risk reduction.

The role will design and deliver pragmatic AI-enabled workflow improvements, including generative AI, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, process automation, analytics and decision-support solutions where appropriate.

The role will act as the engineering bridge between a specific product line, Global Markets AI and the AI CoE, ensuring local solutions reuse approved platforms, patterns, models, controls and delivery standards.

The role will embed AI solutions into day-to-day processes with appropriate human oversight, auditability, monitoring, evidence capture and benefits tracking.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Prioritise and deliver AI opportunities within specific product lines, focusing on measurable productivity, quality, risk, control and service outcomes.

Partner with leaders and process owners to assess current workflows, identify pain points, quantify benefits, define success measures and create practical delivery roadmaps.

Build, configure and integrate AI solutions using approved enterprise platforms, tools and patterns, including generative AI, agentic workflows, RAG, prompt orchestration, workflow automation and data-driven decision support.

Ensure solutions comply with MUFG's AI governance, model risk, information security, data privacy, records management, regulatory, compliance and operational resilience requirements.

Design controls into AI-enabled processes, including human-in-the-loop review, explainability, validation, testing, monitoring, exception handling, evidence capture and audit trails.

Collaborate with Global Markets AI and the AI CoE to reuse common components, contribute reusable patterns and ensure local delivery remains aligned to enterprise AI architecture and engineering standards.

Work with technology, data, cyber, legal, risk, finance and operational teams to obtain required approvals and ensure solutions are supportable, secure and scalable.

Deliver rapid prototypes and quick wins where appropriate, while ensuring production solutions meet engineering, governance and control expectations.

Track benefits and adoption after implementation, including run-rate savings, productivity uplift, quality…