Senior Solution Architect
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Job summary
M&T Bank is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead cloud migration efforts and design hybrid architectures across Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The role requires hands-on leadership, strong governance, and collaboration with domain SMEs to ensure secure, scalable solutions.
You will work with enterprise architects to translate business needs into architecture standards, participate in Agile ceremonies, and mentor junior staff while delivering compliant, high-impact
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher with 7+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience with software or service engineering and delivery.
- Experience applying existing, new and emerging technologies for strategic use.
- Experience researching and evaluating multiple approaches to solving technical problems.
- Experience designing, developing and integrating applications with software architecture principles.
- Experience architecting enterprise solutions across multi-cloud and hybrid environments including Oracle and Azure.
Responsibilities
- Provide consultation on design, building, testing and deployment of technology solutions for the domain.
- Collaborate with domain leadership and enterprise architects to understand drivers and determine solution designs.
- Enable domain leadership to make decisions by evaluating technology options and articulating tradeoffs.
- Create and enforce enterprise architecture standards and ensure compliance of solutions.
- Participate in cross-team Agile ceremonies and collaborate with stakeholders.
- Develop conceptual, logical and physical solution architectures for strategic initiatives.”
- Apply cybersecurity, technology and risk principles to ensure compliant solutions.
- Research emerging domain technologies and publish findings for use by tech teams.
- Align governance to architecture standards and elevate issues as needed.
- Mentor less experienced architects and resolve cross-project technical issues.
- Hands-on cloud migration leadership across design, build, migrate and operation readiness.
- Experience enabling Azure-based solutions including landing zones, IaC, Azure SQL migrations, APIM, Functions and Entra ID integration.
- Designing and governing hybrid architectures spanning Oracle Cloud, Azure, enterprise SaaS and on-prem environments.
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Job description
Supports an assigned portfolio through architecting and designing comprehensive solutions to meet product needs. Works collaboratively with domain leadership to create solutions that align to architecture standards and principles, leveraging common solutions and services while meeting financial targets.
- Provide consultation on the design, building, testing and deployment of technology solutions and designs for the domain.
- Collaborate with domain leadership and enterprise architects to understand business drivers, business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding solution designs.
- Enable domain leadership to make business decisions by working with domain subject matter experts to evaluate technology solutions, articulating the value and tradeoffs of each option.
- Participate in the creation of enterprise architecture standards and evaluate the quality and compliance of delivered solutions to ensure alignment with those standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders on initiatives and participate in cross-team Agile ceremonies.
- Produce, enhance, and refine conceptual, logical, and physical solution architecture for strategic initiatives that align with Enterprise Architecture principles and vision.
- Apply cybersecurity, technology, and risk principles and standards to ensure proposed solutions are compliant.
- Research and identify the potential impact of existing, new, and emerging domain technologies and trends; publish findings internally for use by technology team members to leverage in future projects.
- Align governance activities to the Bank’s architecture standards and elevate to the appropriate stakeholders as needed.
- Objectively evaluate and solve domain specific architecture problems in partnership with domain SMEs.
- Collectively solve problems in collaboration with enterprise and solutions architects for dependent products.
- Mentor less experienced architects and act as the point person for cross-project technical issues and resolution.
- Harness existing technology resources through collaboration to benefit solutioning efforts.
- 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 needing escalation to management.
- Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports 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.
- Must provide hands‑on cloud migration leadership, with demonstrated experience supporting application teams through design, build, migration, and operational readiness activities—not solely architecture advisory functions.
- Experience enabling Azure-based solutions, including landing zones, development environments, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent), Azure SQL migration paths, API Management (APIM), Azure Functions, workflow/orchestration services, and Entra ID integration patterns.
- Must be capable of designing and governing complex hybrid architectures spanning Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, enterprise SaaS solutions, data platforms, and legacy/on‑premises environments.
Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 year's higher education and/or relevant work experience
Experience in the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies for strategic use
Experience in researching, evaluating and articulating multiple approaches to solving technical problems
Experience in designing, developing and integrating applications with relevant software architecture principles
Experience architecting enterprise solutions across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, including Oracle and Azure platforms.
Industry recognized certification in programming languages and/or cloud technologies
We support our team members with generous benefits.
- Competitive compensation
- Health, welfare, and retirement benefits
- 401(k) match at 5%
- Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements
- Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays
- 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year
Clanton, Alabama, United States of America
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $139,700.00 - $232,900.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation. The range listed above corresponds to our national pay range for this role. The specific pay range applicable to you may vary based on your location.
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