The Role
Lead and coach engineering team members while independently designing, reviewing, and authoring secure, resilient production-grade code. Oversee pull requests, source control merges, testing methodology, performance and resiliency practices, and requirements completeness. Communicate architecture and progress to stakeholders, drive process improvements, and ensure adherence to banking risk, regulatory, and internal control standards.
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Overview:
Responsible at the expert level for writing code and the overall team's technical requirements gathering. Completes work following banking technology standards and contributes to the overall stability and resiliency of banking technology within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) while also coaching others.
Primary Responsibilities:- Develop and coach other team members while also working independently on the applications within the boundaries of approved Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, including identification and recommendation of metrics to solve business needs and minimize risks to the Bank through clean and resilient code.
- Review and approve the designs and proposals of pull requests and oversee the execution on the change management of the request.
- Design process for peer review and coach others on code reviews, code quality, and improvements.
- Author organized, clean, efficient, and secure source code at the expert level in a minimum of one programming language and moderate proficiency in a minimum of one other language while coaching team members on the appropriate data structure and algorithms to solve business problems.
- Oversee the source control management inclusions of other team members and perform the merging of code developments into the production deployment path.
- Review testing methodology and code coverage of team members to ensure comprehensive testing is accomplished and coach others on areas of opportunity.
- Drive implementation adherence with patterns and practices for performance testing, resiliency, and optimization within their domain.
- Review, and approve requirement plans on behalf of the team in alignment with delivery partners and ensure requirement completeness, accuracy, and feasibility.
- Serve as key partner with other groups; suggest continuous process improvement spanning organizational boundaries where, in their own judgement, technical or architectural concerns require it.
- Contribute technical requirements where appropriate in support of delivery and maintenance solutions within their domain.
- Understand and effectively communicates architecture, progress, and challenges to business or technical stakeholders and teams.
- Contribute ideas and recommendations to the team's application architectural design work, engineering practices and pattern changes, and present at architecture peer group and architecture review board meetings within their domain.
- Present team's work at internal meetings with other peers and author internal blog posts.
- Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports a culture of belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
No supervisory responsibilities.
Education and Experience Required:- Associate’s degree and a minimum of 7 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience or Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years' systems analysis and/or application development work experience. In lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 year’s education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 5 years’ system analysis and/or application development work experience.
- Expert proficiency in a minimum of 1 relevant programming language and professional proficiency in a minimum of 1 additional relevant programming language.
- Expert analytical skills specific to application development
- Experience working in a team environment
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to multitask on multiple complex projects
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong time management skills
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills
- Experience driving project milestones and delivery dates
- Proven experience leading a project or initiative
- Experience partnering with and presenting to multiple stakeholders within technology and business departments
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years systems analysis and/or application development experience OR Associate's degree and minimum of 7 years systems analysis and/or application development experience OR combined minimum of 9 years education and/or relevant work experience (including minimum 5 years systems analysis/application development).
- Expert proficiency in at least one programming language and professional proficiency in at least one additional programming language.
- Experience authoring organized, efficient, and secure source code and applying appropriate data structures and algorithms to solve business problems.
- Knowledge and adherence to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and banking technology standards.
- Experience with source control management and pull request review/merging practices.
- Ability to review and ensure comprehensive testing methodology and code coverage, and drive improvements in testing practices.
- Experience driving performance testing, resiliency, and optimization practices within application domains.
- Ability to communicate architecture, progress, challenges, and present to technical and business stakeholders.
- Understand and adhere to risk, regulatory standards, policies, and internal controls relevant to banking technology.
- Proven experience leading a project or technical initiative and coaching/mentoring team members.
- Experience working in a team environment and ability to work autonomously on complex projects.
- Strong organizational, time management, and advanced verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience partnering with and presenting to multiple stakeholders within technology and business departments.
M&T Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about M&T Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by M&T Bank.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a strong pillar, including a 401(k) match and the possibility of an additional employer contribution, plus access to an employee stock purchase plan.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are framed as competitive, with a flexible PTO approach and paid volunteer time called out as a meaningful add-on to standard leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support appears comparatively robust, highlighted by mental-health therapy/coaching sessions and broader wellness programming alongside community-oriented perks.
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The Company
What We Do
M&T Bank is a multi-state community-focused bank serving New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the company provides banking, investment, insurance and mortgage financial services to more than 3.6 million consumer, business and government clients.
