Data Scientist – Technology and Enterprise Operations First Line Risk

M&T Bank Corporation; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and retirement

Forty hours of paid volunteer time per

Volunteer time off

Job summary

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, NY seeks a senior analytics leader to develop data-driven insights, dashboards, and automated reporting. You will validate data quality and promote governance of KRIs and KPIs while guiding continuous improvement.

The role is four days onsite at Seneca One Buffalo with a flexible work-from-home one day per week and requires extensive SQL, data visualization, and AI-enabled tooling to deliver actionable insights across risk and business teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of related experience, or 11+ years combined education/work.
• Minimum of 1 year managerial or supervisory experience.
• Experience with at least one data visualization tool.
• Experience designing advanced dashboards/reports and visualizations.
• Expert knowledge of data visualization approaches.
• Experience using SQL to analyze, extract, and transform data.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement analytics, reporting, data visualization, and automation best practices.
• Publish BI dashboards/reports; analyze adoption and usage trends.
• Create access to ad-hoc analysis and self-service BI tools; train organization on tool usage.
• Query, structure, transform, and model data for dashboards, reports and automation.
• Ensure data quality, metadata, and data modeling standards.
• Develop descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive reporting to identify trends.

Skills

Data storytelling

SQL knowledge

Leadership

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Power BI

Python

Copilot

Job description

This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week

Overview

Leads the development of data-driven insights through advanced analytics, process automation, and data visualization. Oversees the design and delivery of dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions that support informed business and risk management decisions. Validates and promotes adherence to data quality, metric governance, and visualization standards to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and effectiveness of KRIs, KPIs, and other business metrics while driving continuous improvement

Position Responsibilities

• Develop and implement best practices for analytics, metric validation, reporting, data visualization, and process automation.
• Identify and implement best practices to navigate and publish Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards/reports; analyze and report on adoption and usage trends.
• Manage and participate in the creation of access to ad-hoc analysis and self-service BI tools; train organization on tool usage and maintain tool access.
• Use knowledge of programming languages to query, structure, transform, and model data for use in dashboards, reports, analytics, validation and automation solutions.
• Apply expert knowledge of data management concepts, metadata, and data modeling practices to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data used in reporting and analytics.
• Manage and drive business insights through the development of descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive reporting through the selection of appropriate advanced visuals to identify trends and outliers.
• Use expert knowledge of visual perception principles to develop, maintain, and enhance templates, standards, and themes aligned to audience needs and organizational standards.
• Support and champion continuous improvement in visualization through the review and enhancement of dashboards and reports.
• Manage modification of dashboards/reports to ensure dynamic data and actionable items are presented in an understandable manner that meet the business needs.
• Partner with data stakeholders to gather visualization requirements and deliver actionable insights.
• Leverage AI-driven analytics and automation tools, including Microsoft Copilot, Power BI Copilot, Power Automate, and Python, to automate reporting processes, enhance data validation activities, improve data quality, and increase operational efficiency.
• 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.
• 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.
• Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 7 years of related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years higher education and/ or work experience, including a minimum of 7 years related experience
• Minimum of 1 year managerial, supervisory and/or work leadership experience
• Tactical experience with a minimum of one data visualization tool
• Experience designing and developing advanced dashboards/reports and data visualizations
• Expert knowledge of data visualization approaches
• Experience incorporating data storytelling into visualizations
• Experience using Structured Query Language (SQL) to analyze, extract, and transform data

Preferred Qualifications

• Tactical experience with multiple data visualization tools
• Experience driving business value through data visualizations
• Knowledge of data management concepts and terminology
• Advanced experience with data quality assurance, metric/KRI validation, model validation, data lineage analysis, and control effectiveness testing.
• Experience leveraging emerging AI technologies and automation tools to improve reporting processes, data validation activities, and operational efficiency.

M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $123,600.00 - $206,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.

Location Buffalo, New York, United States of America. Great companies have an enduring sense of purpose. At M&T, our purpose is a simple one: make a difference in people’s lives and uplift the communities we serve. M&T Bank Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T’s affiliates offer advice, guidance, expertise and solutions across the entire financial spectrum, combining M&T Bank’s traditional banking services with the wealth management and institutional capabilities offered by Wilmington Trust. M&T Bank has a network of over 1,000 branches and 2,200 ATMs that span 12 states from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. For more than 165 years, M&T has strived to take an active role in our communities and build long-lasting relationships with our customers. We are a bank for communities—combining the capabilities of a large bank with the care of a locally focused institution. As an employer of choice, we are proud to offer competitive benefits ranging from medical and retirement to forty hours of paid volunteer time, each year. Our core values – integrity, ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and candor – drive the work we do. We seek to further build upon our record of success by bringing in top talent and fresh skill sets while continuing to support the growth and development of all our team members. View M&T’s Human Capital Report to learn more.

Benefits

• Medical and retirement.
• Forty hours of paid volunteer time, each year.

M&T Bank is unwavering when it comes to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, age, disability, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, military status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local laws.