About the role
We are seeking a Manager, Core Platform Engineering to lead the evolution of MUFG’s core data platform capabilities across our Data Marketplace. This role is critical to building a secure, scalable, and reliable platform foundation that enables teams to publish, discover, and consume high quality data products efficiently in a regulated financial services environment.
You will set direction across core platform domains including Build & CI/CD, Raw Data Services, Data Modelling, and Reporting & Consumption, delivering reusable, service oriented data capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate time to value across MUFG.
This is a leadership role combining platform strategy, engineering excellence, operational reliability, and people leadership, with strong engagement across architecture, security, governance, and delivery teams.
What you’ll be responsible for
Core platform strategy & leadership
- Define and own the core platform engineering strategy and multi quarter roadmap across Build, Raw Data Services, Data Modelling, and Reporting.
- Partner with product, architecture, and domain teams to establish clear platform boundaries, service ownership, and standard integration patterns.
- Set and manage service level objectives (availability, latency, data freshness), prioritising work based on reliability, regulatory obligations, and client impact.
Platform engineering & service delivery
- Lead the design and delivery of agnostic, reusable data services including ingestion, validation, transformation, metadata, access, and observability.
- Own Build platform capabilities (CI/CD pipelines, environments, templates) to enable safe and efficient delivery of data pipelines and products.
- Deliver and evolve Raw Data Services providing governed access to trusted datasets with clear contracts, lineage, and quality signals.
- Enable consistent data modelling through shared standards, reference models, and transformation frameworks.
- Support reporting and analytics consumption through semantic layers, certified datasets, and performance optimised patterns.
Reliability, security & governance by design
- Embed security, privacy, and regulatory controls into platform services, working closely with risk, compliance, and security teams.
- Implement strong platform observability, proactive incident management, and continuous improvement practices.
- Define and enforce platform standards (schemas, contracts, versioning, quality checks) to ensure interoperability and trust.
- Track and report on operational KPIs including reliability, throughput, cost efficiency, and adoption.
People leadership & engineering excellence
- Lead, coach, and develop a high performing core platform engineering team.
- Establish and embed modern engineering practices including secure SDLC, automation, code quality, and documentation.
Balance run the platform responsibilities with strategic platform enhancements across multiple delivery streams.
Stakeholder engagement & enablement
- Build strong partnerships with Data Marketplace domain leads, architecture, governance, and security teams.
- Translate stakeholder and client needs into clear platform capabilities, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Provide clear service documentation and onboarding pathways to drive adoption and reduce time to build for data product teams.
What you’ll bring
- Core Platform Leadership Experience: Ability to set direction and drive alignment across Build, Raw Data Services, Data Modelling, and Reporting.
- Service-Oriented Data Engineering background: Strong grounding in designing reusable, agnostic data services and platform APIs with clear contracts.
- Experience in Operational Excellence: Proven experience with SRE practices, observability, incident management, and service KPIs in data platforms.
- Risk, Security & Governance exposure: Strong understanding of regulated data environments, access controls, and audit requirements.
- Extensive experience leading data platform and/or core platform engineering teams in complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated success delivering shared platform services used by multiple teams/clients, with strong stakeholder management and prioritisation discipline.
- Strong engineering judgement across data ingestion, transformation, modelling, and reporting/consumption patterns, including cost and performance optimisation.
- A collaborative leader who influences across boundaries and drives clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
Some of our Employment Benefits
- Flexible and Hybrid Working – enabling our employees to work in the office and at home
- Purchased Leave, Parental Leave, Volunteer Leave, Gender transition leave, Well-being leave
- Employee Recognition Program - to recognise people who are demonstrating our values and Company purpose.
- Talent Referral Program
- Salary Sacrificing via Superannuation
- Employee Assistance Program
- Learning & Development - Development at your fingertips via self-paced learning, including educational assistance support
- Employee discounts – Access discounted rates and offers from a variety of providers including Bupa and Microsoft!
- Novated Car Leasing
Culture at MUFG Pension & Market Services
We are an inclusive employer whose people work collaboratively. We encourage, support and value the various talents and perspectives of our people and promote a flexible and blended work environment where our people can thrive, and their wellbeing is supported. We know that diversity drives better client outcomes, continuous improvement, and growth. Be part of our company and together we will achieve our full potential.
We treat all individuals fairly and equitably and do not discriminate on the basis of diverse characteristics including, but not limited to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, cultural background, physical abilities/disabilities, religious or political belief, marital or family status or carers responsibilities.
How to apply
Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now with your resume and detailed cover letter highlighting your skills, experience, and why you would be a good fit for the role. Candidates must have the relevant work rights to be considered for an opportunity at MUFG Pension & Market Services. Successful applicants will be required to complete background screening including police and employment history checks prior to commencement of employment
MUFG Pension & Market Services is a global, digitally enabled business that empowers a brighter future by connecting millions of people with their assets – safely, securely and responsibly.
Through our two businesses MUFG Retirement Solutions and MUFG Corporate Markets, we partner with a diversified portfolio of global clients to provide robust, efficient and scalable services, purpose-built solutions and modern technology platforms that deliver world class outcomes and experiences.
A member of MUFG, a global financial group, we help manage regulatory complexity, improve data management and connect people with their assets, through exceptional user experience that leverages the expertise of our people combined with scalable technology, digital connectivity and data insights.
