Lead Calypso Solutions Developer

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

Job summary

M&T Bank Corporation seeks an expert Calypso architect to design and oversee scalable platform solutions across business units in Buffalo, NY. This role leads complex integrations, mentors teams, and aligns initiatives with risk standards.

The candidate will drive Calypso configuration, upgrades, and cloud modernization while working with senior leaders to define requirements and ensure regulatory compliance. Hybrid onsite/work-from-home arrangements apply in Buffalo.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and a minimum of 7 years' solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience or a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years' solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years' education and/or work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, oversee, configure, and develop Calypso configurations and extensions across Front Office to Reporting functions.
• Lead platform upgrade, migration, cloud, infrastructure, and modernization initiatives.
• Mentor junior team members to advance platform capabilities and ensure risk standards.
• Translate business requirements into solution designs, technical specifications, and operational support documentation.
• Drive Calypso integration efforts with secure APIs, messaging, and file-based interfaces.
• Coordinate lifecycle plans and present strategy to senior leaders.

Skills

Calypso platform

Java

SQL

REST/SOAP

XML/JSON

Linux/UNIX

Shell scripting

Git/CI-CD

Education

Associate’s degree in a relevant field

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

N/A

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: Develops the overall design and implementation of scalable, secure, and high performing platform solutions across business units, acting as a subject matter expert. Drives strategic improvements, oversees complex integrations, works with senior leaders across technology and business lines, and mentors junior team members to advance platform capabilities within the organization while maintaining risk standards.

Primary Responsibilities:

Design, oversee, configure, and develop advanced Calypso solutions and multisystem integrations across Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Collateral, Risk, Accounting, Settlements, and Reporting functions. Optimize workflows, platform functionality, and system efficiency while reviewing and approving solutions produced by other team members. Serve as the technical and thought leader for the Calypso platform. Provide hands-on guidance, establish development and configuration standards, and mentor solution developers, software engineers, analysts, and support team members. Facilitate sessions with business and technology stakeholders to identify challenges and define epics, features, user stories, functional requirements, and technical requirements. Apply capital markets and Calypso expertise to ensure strategic initiatives align with business objectives. Perform fit-to-standard and gap analysis between out-of-the-box Calypso capabilities and business requirements. Recommend configuration-first solutions and develop controlled customizations or extensions when standard platform capabilities do not satisfy approved requirements. Translate business requirements into solution designs, technical specifications, configuration designs, interface mappings, implementation plans, test scenarios, and operational support documentation. Design and develop Calypso configurations and extensions supporting trade capture, trade lifecycle processing, workflows, reference data, static data, market data, pricing, position management, collateral processing, confirmations, settlements, accounting, scheduled tasks, interfaces, and reporting. Drive Calypso integration efforts by designing secure and configurable API, messaging, file-based, and service-oriented solutions. Optimize data exchange with trading venues, market data providers, collateral platforms, payment and settlement services, accounting systems, regulatory platforms, and enterprise data repositories. Lead platform upgrade, migration, cloud, infrastructure, and modernization initiatives. Assess compatibility, remediation needs, technical debt, deployment impacts, and implementation risks across Calypso and its dependent systems. Drive advanced Calypso system management, optimization, and performance monitoring. Design strategies that support peak performance, scalability, resiliency, recoverability, and operational efficiency across environments. Develop the design and strategy for the Calypso system lifecycle, ensuring stability, integrity, supportability, and health of the service. Coordinate lifecycle plans across technology and present strategy, timeline, dependencies, risks, and budget considerations to senior leaders. Lead comprehensive unit, integration, system integration, regression, user acceptance, performance, resiliency, and production validation activities. Define acceptance criteria, create or review test cases, support defect triage, and ensure traceability from requirements through implementation. Advance incident and problem management strategy for Calypso, ensuring rapid response and resolution for critical platform, workflow, data, scheduled-task, and integration issues. Serve as an escalation point, lead root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions. Provide senior-level production support and technical oversight for complex Calypso incidents, including analysis of application logs, interfaces, messaging flows, batch processes, reports, market data, trade processing, and environmental dependencies. Define and deliver continuous improvement strategies, proactive issue resolution, automation, observability, and platform optimization to improve performance, resiliency, reliability, scalability, supportability, and long-term efficiency. Create and maintain a communication and documentation framework for solution designs, architecture decisions, configuration inventories, interface specifications, deployment procedures, support runbooks, test evidence, and technical recommendations. Communicate complex Calypso solutions clearly across business and technology teams to promote understanding, adoption, operational readiness, and effective support. Lead compliance, security, data protection, and risk mitigation activities for Calypso solutions. Ensure technical changes meet regulatory, business, architecture, cybersecurity, data-handling, segregation-of-duties, and audit requirements. Support the creation and execution of comprehensive technology solution-design strategies by evaluating new Calypso capabilities and reusable patterns, gathering peer and technical-leadership input, and presenting recommendations to appropriate governance bodies. Model governance best practices. Define and implement quality standards for Calypso configuration, custom code, integrations, testing, documentation, release management, and production support. Design and support advanced analytics and reporting solutions within or connected to Calypso. Automate controlled data aggregation and delivery processes and ensure outputs align with approved business and regulatory objectives. Work effectively with Nasdaq, implementation partners, vendors, infrastructure teams, enterprise architects, cybersecurity, data teams, and application owners to resolve product issues and deliver integrated solutions. 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 requiring escalation to management. Promote an environment that supports a culture of 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.

Education and Experience Required:

Associate’s degree and a minimum of 7 years' solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience or a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years' solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years' education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years’ solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience. Expert proficiency in a minimum of one relevant platform

Education and Experience Preferred:

Expert proficiency with the Nasdaq Calypso fintech platform, including hands-on experience in Calypso solution design, configuration, development, integration, testing, deployment, or production support. Experience supporting capital markets technology and an understanding of trade lifecycle processing. Experience translating business requirements into functional and technical Calypso solutions. Experience troubleshooting complex application, integration, workflow, data, and production issues. Experience with one or more Calypso functional areas, including FX, fixed income, interest-rate products, collateral management, margin processing, settlements, confirmations, accounting, risk, or regulatory reporting. Hands-on development experience with Java and enterprise application design patterns. Experience with SQL and relational database platforms such as Oracle or PostgreSQL. Experience with REST or SOAP services, XML, JSON, messaging, and file-based enterprise integrations. Experience with Linux or UNIX, shell scripting, application logs, batch processing, and performance troubleshooting. Experience with Git-based source control, automated builds, CI/CD pipelines, and controlled deployment processes. Experience with Calypso upgrades, migrations, cloud-hosted environments, or platform modernization.

M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 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.

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