Team Tech Lead – KYC / BSA/AML Technology

M&T Bank; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank is seeking a Team Tech Lead for an onsite role in Buffalo, NY with one remote day per week. You will steer technical direction across .NET applications, data integrations, and platform modernization while mentoring engineers and upholding security and scalability.

The role emphasizes architecture governance, CI/CD, and strong collaboration with enterprise and product teams. Prior experience in KYC/BSA/AML tech is preferred and leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• A combined minimum of 9 years’ higher education and/or work experience with 4 years in engineering/architecture and 3 years in leadership.
• .NET / C# development
• SSIS development and support
• SQL Server
• REST APIs and microservices
• Advanced SQL development and SQL performance tuning
• Application and system integration
• GitLab
• CI/CD pipelines
• SAST/DAST vulnerability remediation
• AI-assisted software development, testing troubleshooting, and technical documentation
• Production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Application and database performance optimization
• Experience implementing & supporting KYC and/or BSA/AML technology

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for KYC and BSA/AML applications, data platforms, integrations, and services.
• Lead design, development and optimization of SSIS-based data integration solutions and databases.
• Translate regulatory and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Guide architecture decisions and communicate trade-offs on performance, security, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers in modern development practices and service-oriented architecture.
• Establish code-review, testing, and deployment practices.
• Improve automated testing, code quality, and engineering documentation.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and strengthen resiliency.
• Promote AI-assisted development responsibly across the SDLC.

Skills

NET/C# development

AI-assisted software development

CI/CD pipelines

GitLab

SAST/DAST remediation

Production troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

SSIS

SQL Server

Job description

This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week

Position Summary

The Team Tech Lead is the senior technical leader and engineering quality steward for an Agile delivery team supporting KYC and BSA/AML technology solutions.

The Lead provides technical direction across application development, data engineering, system integration, and platform modernization. The role guides architecture and design decisions, establishes engineering standards, mentor engineers, helps resolve complex technical challenges, and ensures solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with M&T technology standards.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Design

• Provide technical leadership for KYC and BSA/AML applications, data platforms, integrations, and services.

• Apply technical expertise within Know Your Customer (KYC) and Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) technology environments.

• Provide technical leadership for.NET application development, services, APIs, and microservices.

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of SSIS-based data integration solutions, SQL Server Databases and enterprise data pipelines.

• Translate business, regulatory, and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Guide solution design and implementation, evaluate technical approaches and clearly communicate trade-offs involving performance, scalability, maintainability, security, resiliency, and complexity.

• Partner with enterprise Architecture, infrastructure/platform teams, Product Owners, and other Leads on solutions and dependencies that span multiple teams.

• Conduct and guide architecture, design, and code reviews for complex changes.

• Mentor developers in modern development practices and service-oriented architecture.

• Establish and enforce appropriate code-review, branching, testing, and deployment practices.

• Drive improvements in automated testing, code quality, technical documentation, and engineering controls.

• Proactively identify and manage technical debt.

• Demonstrate proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and promote their responsible use across the software-development lifecycle.

• Identify opportunities and apply AI tools where appropriate to accelerate software development, unit-test development, troubleshooting, code analysis, and technical documentation.

• Lead investigation and resolution of complex issues across application components in production and other environments including root-cause analysis and performance optimization.

• Identify opportunities and provide technical leadership to simplify legacy implementations, reduce operational risk, and improve maintainability.

• Work with engineering and support teams to strengthen application resiliency, monitoring, recoverability, and operational readiness.

Education and Experience Required:

• A combined minimum of 9 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ engineering and/or architecture experience and 3 years leadership experience

• .NET / C# development

• SSIS development and support

• SQL Server

• REST APIs and microservices

• Advanced SQL development and SQL performance tuning

• Application and system integration

• GitLab

• CI/CD pipelines

• SAST/DAST vulnerability remediation

• Automated testing and engineering-quality practices

• AI-assisted software development, testing troubleshooting, and technical documentation

• Production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis

• Application and database performance optimization

• Experience implementing & supporting KYC and/or BSA/AML technology

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Financial-services technology experience, with KYC/BSA/AML experience.
• Strong software engineering and solution-design experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership of engineering teams or complex technical initiatives.
• Strong experience in mentoring and developing engineers/teams.
• Experience designing and integrating applications using established architecture principles and patterns.
• Strong experience across application, database, API, and data-integration technologies.
• Ability to research complex technical issues, evaluate multiple approaches, and clearly articulate recommendations and trade-offs.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, product, business, risk, and management stakeholders.
• Experience working in an Agile engineering environment.

M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.

Location

Buffalo, New York, United States of America