AI Platform Architect- VP

Location: MUFG Global Service Private Ltd. - Bengaluru (BCIT)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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.

Position details

As a VP, AI Platform Architect, you will lead the design and implementation of advanced AI infrastructure and services that power enterprise scale ML and Gen AI capabilities. You will be a partner with data engineers, platform developers and AI data scientists to build secure, scalable and compliant AI platforms that accelerate business innovation for MUFG. This role serves as the principal AI architect and hands on technical leadership

Roles and Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture: Design and evolve the AI platform’s core architecture covering model lifecycle management, orchestration, APIs, and observability on AWS cloud
• Technical Leadership: Translate strategic objectives into technical roadmaps; guide senior to mid level developers through design reviews, coding standards and system optimization
• LLM operations: Define and implement best practices for LLMOps pipelines, including model deployment, fine tuning, evaluation and cost tracking
• Integration Engineering: Architect integration solutions between data platforms, governance systems, and AI services ensuring compliance with security and regulatory controls.
• Performance and Reliability: Benchmark and tune infrastructure for high throughput, low latency and efficient model inferences
• Collaboration: Work closely with Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Info Sec to align architecture choices with business goals
• Documentation and knowledge sharing: Maintain architectural standards, templates and reusable components to drive consistency across teams.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8-9 years in software, platform engineering with at least 3+ years in designing or supporting AI/ML systems
• Proven success in architecting and delivering AI platforms at scale (AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Databricks, Domino or equivalent)
• Strong in Python, API design, IaaC and Containerization (ECR, ECS or Kubernetes)
• Deep understanding of LLM Architecture, Agentic workflows, vector databases and retrieval pipelines
• Exposure to Responsible AI principles, data governance and model risk management in regulated industry
• Strong communication, stakeholder influence and mentoring capabilities
• Ability to bridge technical depth and business context
• Familiarity with Observability stack (Promethus, Grafana), embedding stores, and MLOps tools like MLFlow or KubeFlow

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.