Remote-Eligible Enterprise Architect, Banking & Marketing

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

Job summary

M&T Bank Corporation seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead Retail Banking and Marketing capabilities. You will shape business-aligned technology strategies, roadmaps, and target-state architectures across deposits, marketing, pricing, and branch operations.

This role collaborates across business, data, technology, cybersecurity, and risk teams. Providing architecture governance, evaluating vendor options, and communicating decisions to senior leaders are key aspects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years of higher education and/or relevant work experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in enterprise, domain, solution, or application architecture, including at least 3 years supporting consumer or retail banking capabilities and technology.
• Demonstrated experience developing target-state architectures, reference patterns, roadmaps, and transition plans across a complex application and data landscape.
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms, legacy systems, APIs, events, data services, and third-party products within a regulated environment.
• Working knowledge of architecture modeling and documentation practices, with the ability to communicate effectively with executive, business, and engineering audiences.
• Experience evaluating vendors and technology options and translating business, risk, operational, and financial considerations into clear recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve domain architecture strategies and roadmaps aligned with Consumer Banking and Marketing priorities, regulatory requirements, enterprise standards, and long-term technology direction.
• Develop current-state and target-state architectures, capability models, value streams, reference patterns, and transition roadmaps across the Consumer Banking and Marketing landscape.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable high-level and solution architectures that guide delivery and engineering teams without assuming day-to-day delivery ownership.
• Architect interoperable customer, product, pricing, payments, cards, branch, contact center, ATM, item processing, marketing, campaign, consent, and servicing capabilities.
• Promote consistent customer identity, profile, preference, consent, authentication, personalization, and communication patterns across the consumer ecosystem.
• Partner with business, product, data, technology, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, operations, and experience teams to align investment and sequencing decisions.
• Provide architecture governance and lifecycle oversight to ensure implementations align with approved standards, roadmaps, resilience objectives, and control requirements.
• Evaluate vendor and platform options for enterprise fit, functional coverage, integration, cost, operational resilience, third-party risk, and the avoidance of unnecessary duplication.
• Communicate architecture decisions, tradeoffs, dependencies, and investment implications clearly to senior business and technology leaders.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Domain architecture

Roadmaps

Stakeholder communication

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

M&T Bank Corporation seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead Retail Banking and Marketing capabilities. You will shape business-aligned technology strategies, roadmaps, and target-state architectures across deposits, marketing, pricing, and branch operations.

This role collaborates across business, data, technology, cybersecurity, and risk teams. Providing architecture governance, evaluating vendor options, and communicating decisions to senior leaders are key aspects.