WD Middleware WSOAPI Management Services Engineer, AVP

MUFG Bank N.A. is currently recruiting for an Associate Vice President, Middleware Cloud Services Engineer that will be located in Tampa, FL or Jersey City, NJ who will utilize the software development skillsets in a unique way to deliver stable and strategic automation solutions, enabling software capabilities across MUFG Bank N.A.

The API First effort will deliver a world-class API Platform for commercial and transaction banking to enable the bank’s competitive market position. This will serve our customers' best interests by providing an improved product suite, increased financial performance, and it will also eliminate significant legacy platforms.

The Resetting the technology backbone ‘R’ is a multi-year effort that will implement a scalable, secure, compliant, and efficient technology platform; enable the Technology organization to be 'fit for growth' to meet future acquisition, customer growth, and product needs; drive a step-change reduction in technology operating costs; increase speed-to-market; minimize residual risk; and ensure security and compliance.

The Middleware Cloud Services Engineer will be a hands-on technical engineer that will be accountable for Software development, R&D and operations in support of the Enterprise Integration Platform  this team, you will face a wide array of technical challenges that greatly impact our business. This team works closely across the Cloud Transformation Organization, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Engineering and Operations organizations, in order to deliver next generation capabilities in an operationally stable software defined ecosystem to MUFG and its customers.

The role will be responsible for design, evolution, implementation and support of the cloud transformation Enterprise Integration Platform operating across geographically diverse data centers, as well as cloud service providers, empowering our customers with capabilities of highly available, automated and cost-effective platform solutions to address resiliency, performance, portability, security and disaster recovery needs.

The Role will serve as a point of escalation for all operational issues and critical events related to the Enterprise Integration Platform. The position will also need the individual to train the staff, developing standard operating procedures and writing knowledge articles. The Engineer will also be a key contributor to automation roadmap and strategy to improve policy driven automated operations while adhering to the industry best practices and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Intrigued? Then, we would like to meet you if you have the following:

• AWS certifications related to architecture, networking, or security are strongly preferred; WSO2 certifications are nice to have
• A minimum of 5 years of experience with large scale mission critical and production scale platforms at an Enterprise or service provider is required
• At least 5 years of strong hands‑on experience designing, implementing, and operating AWS API Gateway‑based enterprise API platforms; familiarity with WSO2 API Manager is a plus
• Independent judgment, technical problem solving, analytical and decision‑making strength is required.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills are required.
• Self‑starter with strong teamwork abilities and customer service skills are required.
• Experience working in a Scrum methodology including the Atlassian stack (Jira/Confluence) is preferred.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience with large scale mission critical and production scale platforms at an Enterprise or service provider is required
• Deep expertise in AWS API Gateway including REST APIs, HTTP APIs, Web Socket APIs, custom domains, usage plans, stages, throttling, caching, and deployment strategies
• Strong experience designing secure, scalable API architectures on AWS using API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, ALB/NLB, and private integrations
• Hands‑on expertise with API authentication and authorization patterns in AWS including IAM, Cognito, Lambda authorize rs, OAuth2, JWT, and mutual TLS
• Experience implementing API lifecycle controls such as throttling, quota management, rate…