GenAI SDLC Orchestration & Tooling Engineer

M&T Bank Corporation; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 116,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Volunteer time

Job summary

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, NY seeks an SDLC GenAI Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain GenAI-enabled tooling that automates SDLC activities, with strong governance and artifact validation. You will integrate diverse enterprise tools, build AI-driven workflows, and ensure quality and security across the SDLC.

You will partner with governance leads and tool owners to reduce manual effort, strengthen traceability, and deliver metrics dashboards that measure governance,

Qualifications

• 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.
• Strong foundation in software architecture, system design, API design, integration patterns, engineering best practices, secure coding, testing, CI/CD, and operational support.
• Hands‑on experience using GenAI models, coding assistants, prompt engineering, RAG/context engineering, model evaluation, or agent‑based automation to support software delivery outcomes.
• Experience integrating enterprise tools through APIs, webhooks, pipelines, service accounts, event‑driven patterns, or middleware.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain GenAI-enabled capabilities that automate SDLC activities such as requirements decomposition, design validation, testing support, evidence generation, SDLC adherence measurement, workflow summarization, and governance reporting.
• Develop agent-based workflows that use AI models to generate, validate, refine, and route SDLC artifacts while preserving required human review, approval, and audit evidence.
• Create reusable engineering patterns for context injection, prompt templates, grounding data, artifact validation, model evaluation, confidence scoring, and output quality controls.
• Leverage AI models as primary execution engines while maintaining architectural, quality, security, and operational oversight of generated outputs and automated actions.
• Partner with internal tool owners for GitLab Duo, GitLab, Jira, Zephyr, ServiceNow, Confluence, SharePoint, SonarQube, Power BI, and related platforms to design and build integrations that support SDLC automation.
• Build APIs, services, connectors, pipeline jobs, automation scripts, event-driven workflows, and data transformations needed to connect SDLC systems of record and supporting tooling.
• Support integration patterns that connect requirements, Jira work items, generated artifacts, test cases, Zephyr evidence, GitLab repositories, merge requests, ServiceNow permits/RFCs, and dashboard metrics.

Job description

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, NY seeks an SDLC GenAI Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain GenAI-enabled tooling that automates SDLC activities, with strong governance and artifact validation. You will integrate diverse enterprise tools, build AI-driven workflows, and ensure quality and security across the SDLC.

You will partner with governance leads and tool owners to reduce manual effort, strengthen traceability, and deliver metrics dashboards that measure governance,