Senior Enterprise Software Architect

M&T Bank; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 139,700 - 232,900; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank is seeking a senior technical leader to write expert‑level code while driving enterprise architecture, technical strategy, and scalable solutions across mobile, backend services, cloud platforms, AKS, databases, security, and the SDLC. You will mentor engineers, set standards, and influence architectural direction across multiple teams.

The role requires balancing business, operational, risk, and engineering priorities while making long‑term enterprise decisions with cross‑domain impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of systems analysis and/or application development experience, or an equivalent combination per job posting.
• Expert proficiency in at least one programming language and advanced proficiency in another.
• Expert-level experience designing enterprise-scale solutions and implementing patterns across microservices and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for code change and review processes ensuring high quality and enterprise standards.
• Define strategic technology direction, target-state architectures, and scalable designs across domains.
• Design, review, and approve system architecture with cross-domain alignment and governance.
• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs, risks, resiliency, security, and long-term operational impact.
• Guide platform architecture decisions across mobile, backend, cloud, AKS, and DevOps.
• Mentor Senior and Staff Engineers to elevate technical capabilities.

Skills

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team leadership

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree with experience or higher

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Spring Boot

REST APIs

gRPC

Azure

AKS

SQL Server

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Job description

M&T Bank is seeking a senior technical leader to write expert‑level code while driving enterprise architecture, technical strategy, and scalable solutions across mobile, backend services, cloud platforms, AKS, databases, security, and the SDLC. You will mentor engineers, set standards, and influence architectural direction across multiple teams.

The role requires balancing business, operational, risk, and engineering priorities while making long‑term enterprise decisions with cross‑domain impact.