AI-Driven Engineering Leader for Cloud & AI

M&T Bank

South Dakota

On-site

USD 140,000 - 233,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

M&T Bank in Buffalo, NY seeks an Engineering Manager to lead multiple software teams delivering secure, scalable, and resilient digital products. You will align product roadmaps with technology strategy, coach engineers, and drive AI-enabled modernization across cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

The role emphasizes people leadership, governance, and collaboration with Architecture, Risk, and Business stakeholders to deliver measurable value while maintaining uptime and security in highly

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
10+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on design and development experience.
5+ years of people leadership experience managing engineering teams.
Experience leading engineering teams utilizing modern software development tools, automation platforms, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
Strong understanding of current technology trends including cloud computing, AI, software automation, and digital transformation.
Demonstrated ability to lead technology modernization and innovation initiatives.
Experience leading teams delivering full-stack applications utilizing modern web, API, integration, and backend technologies.
Experience with Azure cloud platforms and cloud-native engineering practices.
Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and application modernization.
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automation, DevOps, and Agile delivery practices.
Experience supporting highly available, customer-facing, and mission-critical applications.
Strong understanding of SDLC, security practices, risk management, and regulatory requirements.
Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale technology initiatives and organizational change.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of mission-critical applications and digital products.
Establish engineering strategies, roadmaps, and delivery plans aligned to business objectives and technology modernization initiatives.
Drive predictable delivery across multiple Agile teams while balancing feature delivery, technical debt reduction, operational stability, and risk mitigation.
Promote engineering excellence through modern software development practices, code quality standards, automated testing, peer reviews, and continuous integration/deployment.
Provide technical leadership across full-stack application development, including frontend, backend, APIs, microservices, integration patterns, databases, and cloud-native technologies.
Partner with Architecture to define solution designs, modernization strategies, and target-state technology roadmaps.
Guide teams in building scalable, secure, resilient, and observable systems leveraging Azure cloud services and platform capabilities.
Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and vendor solutions to improve development productivity and business outcomes.
Drive adoption of engineering best practices including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), API-first design, event-driven architecture, and reusable platform capabilities.
Guide engineering teams in designing and supporting AI-enabled applications and intelligent business capabilities.
Collaborate with enterprise architecture and data teams to define patterns for AI, machine learning, and Generative AI integrations.
Evaluate tradeoffs related to AI solution architecture, scalability, governance, model risk, security, explainability, and operational support.

Skills

People leadership

Azure cloud

CI/CD DevOps

AI/Gen AI

Full-stack dev

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Observability tools

CI tooling

Job description

The role emphasizes people leadership, governance, and collaboration with Architecture, Risk, and Business stakeholders to deliver measurable value while maintaining uptime and security in highly

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