Enterprise AI Architect for Generative & Intelligent Platforms

M&T Bank Corporation; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Retirement plan

Volunteer time off

Job summary

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, New York is seeking an enterprise architecture leader for AI strategy and governance, focusing on Generative AI, agentic systems, and scalable platforms. This role emphasizes standards, risk, and cross-enterprise transformation rather than day-to-day delivery.

You will define target architectures for AI platforms, establish guardrails, and partner with business, data, technology, and security teams to translate strategy into invested roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required with 7+ years of relevant enterprise AI/architecture experience.
• Experience designing cloud-based AI architectures using Azure, AWS, or GCP with modern integration patterns.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy into AI-enabled capabilities and roadmaps.
• Hands-on familiarity with model risk, governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory controls in regulated environments.
• Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex tradeoffs clearly.
• Experience leading architecture governance through design authorities and SDLC checkpoints.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise target-state architecture for AI, Generative AI, and agentic systems.
• Establish enterprise principles, standards, reference architectures, and decision frameworks for AI adoption.
• Translate business strategy into AI-enabled capability, platform, and investment roadmaps.
• Define architecture for enterprise AI platforms and services, including Microsoft AI Foundry and Azure AI offerings.
• Lead patterns for model selection, orchestration, guardrails, telemetry, and lifecycle governance.
• Partner with business, data, technology, cybersecurity, risk, privacy, compliance, engineering and platform teams to drive decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk & governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Azure OpenAI Service

Azure AI Studio

Microsoft AI Foundry

OpenAI models

Job description

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, New York is seeking an enterprise architecture leader for AI strategy and governance, focusing on Generative AI, agentic systems, and scalable platforms. This role emphasizes standards, risk, and cross-enterprise transformation rather than day-to-day delivery.

You will define target architectures for AI platforms, establish guardrails, and partner with business, data, technology, and security teams to translate strategy into invested roadmaps.