Infrastructure Director

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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.

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Director of Infrastructure & Platforms to lead the technology infrastructure organization for MUFG Mexico. This executive will be responsible for defining and executing the infrastructure strategy, technology roadmap, and investment priorities that support the bank’s business objectives, regulatory requirements, operational resilience, and long-term digital transformation initiatives.

A key focus of the position will be leading infrastructure modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, hybrid infrastructure strategies, data center optimization, automation, virtualization, observability, and platform engineering practices. The individual will partner closely with business leaders, application development teams, cybersecurity, risk management, audit, and global technology organizations to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable technology solutions.

The successful candidate will establish and maintain strong governance processes, operational standards, and service management practices while ensuring compliance with banking regulations, internal policies, and technology risk requirements. They will also be responsible for disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, vulnerability remediation, infrastructure lifecycle management, and incident management processes.

This leader will manage strategic technology vendors and service providers, oversee infrastructure budgets and investment plans, and drive continuous improvement across technology operations. In addition, the role requires building and developing high-performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence.

Key Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading enterprise Infrastructure and Platform organizations within banking, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• Strong expertise across enterprise infrastructure technologies, including networking, cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure), virtualization, Windows and Linux platforms, databases, middleware, storage, and data center operations.
• Proven success leading large-scale infrastructure transformation, modernization, cloud migration, automation, and operational resilience programs.
• Deep understanding of technology risk management, cybersecurity principles, disaster recovery, business continuity, regulatory compliance, and audit requirements.
• Experience managing technology vendors, strategic partners, budgets, and multi-year investment roadmaps.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across local, regional, and global organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and retain high-performing technology teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Advanced English and Spanish proficiency is mandatory, as the role requires regular interaction with regional and global stakeholders.

This is a highly visible leadership opportunity for a technology executive passionate about building resilient, secure, and modern infrastructure capabilities that enable business growth and innovation within a global banking organization.