Vice President, Messaging & Collaboration Engineer

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.

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.

This role sits within Client Services, a function of Digital Engineering Services (DES), the organisation’s core infrastructure capability.

DES is responsible for delivering secure, scalable, and resilient technology platforms across the enterprise, including Network, Storage, Platform, Security Operations, Service Management, and End User Computing. Within DES, the Client Services team is responsible for delivering modern workplace technologies across Desktop Services, Application Delivery, Messaging & Collaboration, and Microsoft 365 services.

The Messaging & Collaboration team owns the strategic direction, engineering, and operational excellence of Microsoft 365 communication and collaboration platforms, enabling secure, compliant, and resilient services that support business productivity and digital transformation NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS
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THE ROLE The Microsoft 365 Messaging & Collaboration SME is responsible for the engineering, delivery, and continual evolution of the organisation’s Microsoft 365 messaging and collaboration platforms.

The role provides technical leadership across Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, and enterprise email security platforms including Proofpoint.

Working closely with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders, the SME designs, implements, and optimises secure, resilient, and scalable collaboration services that enable modern ways of working while ensuring compliance, governance, and operational excellence.

The role acts as the technical authority for Messaging & Collaboration services, driving platform modernisation, leading complex technical initiatives, providing Tier 3 technical escalation support and leadership, and ensuring Microsoft 365 capabilities continue to evolve in line with business strategy and Microsoft’s technology roadmap.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Platform Engineering & Architecture
• Lead the engineering, implementation, and continual evolution of Microsoft 365 Messaging & Collaboration services.
• Design and optimise Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft 365 collaboration solutions.
• Define technical standards, engineering best practices, and platform roadmaps.
• Lead messaging migrations, tenant optimisation, and strategic transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate and adopt new Microsoft technologies to improve collaboration and productivity.

Security, Governance & Compliance
• Implement and manage Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange Online Protection, and Proofpoint integrations.
• Design and implement Microsoft Purview capabilities, including Information Protection, DLP, Retention, eDiscovery, and Records Management.
• Maintain secure mail flow through SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and modern email authentication standards.
• Ensure messaging platforms remain compliant with…