Senior Data Solution Architect — Platform & Governance

Relha LLC; Wilmington (DE); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank is seeking a Senior Data Solution Architect in Wilmington, DE to translate complex business processes into scalable, governed data architecture. This role guides architecture, data models, contracts, and integration patterns to enable delivery teams while aligning with enterprise standards and policies.

The position emphasizes cloud-ready designs, data governance, and collaboration with agile teams to ensure robust, compliant data solutions across domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field; 9+ years of data architecture experience preferred.
• Experience leading initiatives across technology practices and business verticals.
• Strong background in data modeling, governance, and integration concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and data integration for a highly complex data project across multiple domains.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models with business teams.
• Produce data artifacts such as dictionaries, matrices, data flow diagrams, and data lineage.
• Create API schema and transition state architecture.
• Document SLA considerations within designs and align with product goals.
• Identify strategy gaps and work with management to plan remediation.
• Assess existing systems and define phased target architecture and data governance framework.
• Ensure cloud-readiness and portability with multi-cloud considerations.
• Collaborate with agile teams to institucionalize best practices in data platform development.
• Establish non-functional standards and reusable framework interactions to maximize value.
• Coordinate release planning to align dependencies with business value.
• Support data architecture standards and regulatory compliance across releases.

Skills

Leadership across tech practices

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

Programming languages

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

TOGAF

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

M&T Bank is seeking a Senior Data Solution Architect in Wilmington, DE to translate complex business processes into scalable, governed data architecture. This role guides architecture, data models, contracts, and integration patterns to enable delivery teams while aligning with enterprise standards and policies.

The position emphasizes cloud-ready designs, data governance, and collaboration with agile teams to ensure robust, compliant data solutions across domains.