Senior API Strategy Lead - Enterprise Platform & Ecosystem

M&T Bank Corporation; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 148,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, NY, seeks a Senior Product Owner to lead the end‑to‑end API strategy for the enterprise platform. You will own the vision, roadmap, and value delivery across Digital Assets, Open Banking, and commercial banking APIs, partnering across risk, technology, and business teams.

You will shape portfolio‑level priorities, ensure security/compliance by design, and drive reusable APIs across multiple teams while navigating a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of business/technical/product experience.
• 7+ years in Product Ownership or Product Management for platform or enterprise capabilities.
• Hands-on experience delivering bank APIs with REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, versioning and security.
• Experience translating multi-stakeholder strategy into executable roadmaps.
• Strong written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.
• Experience operating in regulated environments.
• Ability to influence without authority in matrixed organizations.
• Focus on customer and business outcomes over purely technical aspects.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise API product vision and roadmap spanning Digital Assets, Open Banking, and Banking APIs.
• Translate enterprise strategy into sequenced, outcome-oriented roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
• Operate at portfolio/ART level defining features, epics, and cross-team dependencies.
• Own the API platform product model ensuring reusable, scalable, compliant services by design.
• Drive developer experience including API docs, onboarding patterns, and portal/sandbox needs.
• Identify business and regulatory opportunities and required resources to pursue them.
• Establish and evolve API governance and standards with security and regulatory expectations.

Skills

APIs

Open Banking

REST APIs

OpenAPI/Swagger

Roadmaps

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

API portals

Developer portals

Documentation standards

Job description

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, NY, seeks a Senior Product Owner to lead the end‑to‑end API strategy for the enterprise platform. You will own the vision, roadmap, and value delivery across Digital Assets, Open Banking, and commercial banking APIs, partnering across risk, technology, and business teams.

You will shape portfolio‑level priorities, ensure security/compliance by design, and drive reusable APIs across multiple teams while navigating a regulated environment.