About the Role
MUFG, one of the world's leading financial groups, is seeking a Director Technology Analytics and Innovation Lead to join their London office. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to shape the future of compliance technology and analytics across EMEA, leading a multidisciplinary team in a globally renowned organisation with over 350 years of history. As Director TAI Lead, you will be at the forefront of integrating advanced technology, data sourcing, analytics, tuning, and AI enablement to support core compliance and financial crime systems. You will benefit from a supportive leadership environment that values integrity, transparency, and responsibility, while enjoying flexible working opportunities and access to generous pension contributions.
What You'll Do
•Own the regional roadmap and execution for all technology-related work supporting Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, Core Compliance, and Data Platforms such as AIRIS.
•Oversee the delivery of technology projects and business-as-usual maintenance related to GFCD and Core systems, ensuring alignment with global priorities and regulatory obligations.
•Lead requirements gathering, design processes, testing phases, implementation strategies, release readiness assessments, production support activities, and post-implementation validation for applications and enhancements.
•Manage scope, budget, schedule, risks, dependencies, and benefits of technology initiatives while reporting/escalating issues to regional and global heads as needed.
•Establish successful partnerships across Compliance, Operations, Technology, Data teams, Model Risk functions, external vendors; set clear ownership structures and capacity plans for compliance teams.
•Lead regional forums and participate in global working groups that review proposed changes; oversee design decisions, testing results, release readiness evaluations, production risk management processes.
•Represent the region during regulatory exams, internal audits, compliance testing sessions; prepare materials for presentations; coordinate responses; track commitments; ensure timely remediation of findings or observations.
•Oversee effectiveness of Transaction Monitoring systems, Sanctions Screening tools, Customer Risk Rating models, Know Your Customer (KYC) processes; manage regulatory-ready systems through coverage assessments and optimisation activities.
•Direct material detection configuration decisions including logic design choices; document rationale for governance reviews; ensure proper controls are implemented for watchlist management.
•Lead data sourcing efforts for systems/models/analytics/AI use cases; assess impact of data defects or feed failures on detection logic/model performance/alert generation/regulatory reporting.
What You Bring
•Extensive experience across financial crime compliance technology, data analytics, model ownership or major technology delivery within regulated environments.
•Experience leading managers, technical professionals, business unit system owners, quantitative analysts, data analysts, or multidisciplinary teams focused on technology analytics transformation.
•Proven ability to lead large-scale programs with approved budgets exceeding US$5 million, including accountability for scope, budget, schedule, risk and business outcomes using both waterfall and agile methods.
•Experience chairing system/model change governance forums with authority to challenge proposals, require evidence, escalate unresolved risks, and drive decisions to closure across multiple legal entities, branches, countries and lines of business.
•Direct experience owning and materially leading detection capabilities in at least two financial crime domains such as Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions Screening, Customer Risk Rating, or KYC Surveillance.
•Hands-on experience sourcing data, translating analytical needs into field-level requirements, source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, test conditions and acceptance criteria; conducting completeness reconciliation, profiling, gap analysis, and assessing the effect of defects on models, systems, alerts and reporting.
•Demonstrated success influencing senior IT leaders and system-division partners where priorities, incentives or delivery timelines are not aligned, using governance, escalation and executive sponsorship to achieve program outcomes without direct reporting authority.
•Experience acting as a trusted advisor and execution partner to business/system owners, translating control responsibilities into technology and analytical requirements, driving implementation with accountable delivery teams, and developing resource capacity plans addressing priorities, skills, role mix and location strategy for employees and contractors.
•Ability to communicate complex technical, analytical, model, data and control matters in clear business language, tailoring messages to regulators, executive committees, senior technology leaders, operational teams and delivery resources; demonstrating executive judgment under pressure, distinguishing facts from assumptions, elevating material risks early, setting clear asks, and driving decisions to closure among stakeholders with competing objectives and delivery constraints.
•Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience; advanced degree or industry certification preferred; excellent managerial and leadership experience with a strategic approach to articulating and implementing vision and strategy, leading and motivating high-performing teams, and providing clear direction.
What Sets MUFG Apart
MUFG stands out as one of the world's largest, most trusted financial groups, with a rich heritage spanning over three centuries, a global presence with more than 2,300 offices, and 150,000 employees worldwide. The organisation is deeply committed to integrity, responsibility, transparency and fairness, creating an environment where every employee can thrive and contribute meaningfully. Employees benefit from flexible working opportunities, generous pension contributions, ongoing training and development resources, and exposure to a diverse international network.
MUFG is open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
