Job Description
FUNCTION:
Supports an assigned portfolio through architecting and designing comprehensive solutions to meet product needs. Works collaboratively with domain leadership to create solutions that align to architecture standards and principles, leveraging common solutions and services while meeting financial targets.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide consultation on the design, building, testing and deployment of technology solutions and designs for the domain.
- Collaborate with domain leadership and enterprise architects to understand business drivers, business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding solution designs.
- Enable domain leadership to make business decisions by working with domain subject matter experts to evaluate technology solutions, articulating the value and tradeoffs of each option.
- Participate in the creation of enterprise architecture standards and evaluate the quality and compliance of delivered solutions to ensure alignment with those standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders on initiatives and participate in cross-team Agile ceremonies.
- Produce, enhance, and refine conceptual, logical, and physical solution architecture for strategic initiatives that align with Enterprise Architecture principles and vision.
- Apply cybersecurity, technology, and risk principles and standards to ensure proposed solutions are compliant.
- Research and identify the potential impact of existing, new, and emerging domain technologies and trends; publish findings internally for use by technology team members to leverage in future projects.
- Align governance activities to the Bank’s architecture standards and escalate to the appropriate stakeholders as needed.
- Objectively evaluate and solve domain specific architecture problems in partnership with domain SMEs.
- Collectively solve problems in collaboration with enterprise and solutions architects for dependent products.
- Mentor less experienced architects and act as the point person for cross-project technical issues and resolution.
- Harness existing technology resources through collaboration to benefit solutioning efforts.
- 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.
- Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports 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.
- Must provide hands-on cloud migration leadership, with demonstrated experience supporting application teams through design, build, migration, and operational readiness activities—not solely architecture advisory functions.
- Experience enabling Azure-based solutions, including landing zones, development environments, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent), Azure SQL migration paths, API Management (APIM), Azure Functions, workflow/orchestration services, and Entra ID integration patterns.
- Must be capable of designing and governing complex hybrid architectures spanning Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, enterprise SaaS solutions, data platforms, and legacy/on-premises environments.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 year's higher education and/or relevant work experience
Experience in software or service engineering and delivery
Experience in the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies for strategic use
Experience in researching, evaluating and articulating multiple approaches to solving technical problems
Experience as a software practitioner, developing software and applications
Experience with a minimum of two programming languages
Experience in designing, developing and integrating applications with relevant software architecture principles
Experience architecting enterprise solutions across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, including Oracle and Azure platforms.
IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED:
Graduate degree in a technical discipline
Experience working in a lead capacity related to banking technical design
Experience working in an Agile environment
Industry recognized certification in programming languages and/or cloud technologies
Experience working in the financial services industry
We support our team members with generous benefits.
- Competitive compensation
- Health, welfare, and retirement benefits
- 401(k) match at 5%
- Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements
- Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays
- 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year
- Much more. For details, see: M&T Benefits Overview
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or 11 years combined education/work experience
- Hands-on cloud migration leadership supporting design, build, migration, and operational readiness
- Experience enabling Azure-based solutions including landing zones, dev environments, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
- Experience with Azure SQL migration paths, API Management (APIM), Azure Functions, workflow/orchestration services, and Entra ID integration patterns
- Experience architecting enterprise solutions across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, including Oracle and Azure platforms
- Experience in software or service engineering and delivery and as a software practitioner developing applications
- Experience with a minimum of two programming languages
- Experience designing, developing, and integrating applications following software architecture principles
- Experience researching, evaluating, and articulating multiple approaches to solving technical problems
- Graduate degree in a technical discipline
- Experience working in a lead capacity related to banking technical design
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Industry recognized certification in programming languages and/or cloud technologies
- Experience working in the financial services industry
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.
M&T Bank Insights
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.
