APAC Data Network Engineering Lead

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 The APAC Data Network Engineering Lead is accountable for leading the engineering function to design, build, automate, secure, modernise, and continuously improve the Bank's APAC data network. This combined technical and people leadership role leads and develops the regional engineering team while retaining strong hands-on technical ownership across data centre, campus, WAN, wireless, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, and network automation domains. The position sets technical direction, establishes engineering standards, acts as the senior escalation point for complex issues, and owns end-to-end delivery of network transformation initiatives. The four core technical competencies for this position are: (1) Cisco ACI; (2) Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN; (3) routing protocols - BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP; and (4) Cisco Wireless. Candidates must demonstrate advanced, current, hands-on capability in at least three of these four areas. Roles and Responsibilities Team Leadership and Engineering Excellence • Lead, coach, and develop the APAC network engineering team, building technical depth, accountability, delivery discipline, and succession capability. • Set technical direction and maintain a high engineering standard across architecture, design quality, automation, documentation, testing, and execution. • Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex engineering issues and critical incidents, providing decisive direction and hands-on support where required. • Embed peer review, reusable engineering patterns, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across the function. Engineering Strategy, Architecture, and Standards • Serve as the Technical SME and engineering owner for the Bank's APAC data network, with primary ownership of Cisco ACI and broader ownership across campus, LAN/WAN, wireless, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, and related connectivity services. • Define and maintain target architectures, engineering standards, configuration baselines, design patterns, technology roadmaps, and lifecycle plans.