M&T Bank is building the new Tech 360 Platform, an enterprise technology platform that gives CIOs and technology leaders a single, trusted view of performance, risk, cost, delivery, talent, and business value across the organization. This role helps consolidate fragmented reporting into a unified platform to improve transparency, accountability, and strategic execution.
This Lead Software Engineer position is based in Buffalo, NY (onsite) and focuses on technical leadership for designing, developing, and delivering scalable solutions for technology reporting, with enterprise-grade applications that support executive-facing decision making.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support enterprise-grade applications using one or more programming languages.
- Develop and maintain REST APIs, responsive web applications, ETL solutions, and scalable database systems that support business and technology objectives.
- Author organized, clean, efficient, secure, and maintainable source code at an advanced level, applying appropriate data structures and algorithms to solve business problems.
- Lead implementation of cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes, containers, and microservices architecture.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing and deployment.
- Define and implement API and integration strategies across enterprise platforms.
- Partner with architects and security teams to implement authorization and policy-driven access controls.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence, resiliency, and operational best practices.
- Participate in Agile and/or SAFe delivery teams, contributing to planning, estimation, execution, and continuous improvement.
- Understand and adhere to the company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Risk Appetite, escalating risk-related issues to management as needed.
- Promote an environment that supports a culture of belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points and issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree and minimum 7 years systems analysis and/or application development work experience, or Bachelor’s degree and minimum 5 years systems analysis and/or application development work experience. In lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 5 years systems analysis and/or application development work experience.
- Experience developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Angular and/or modern front-end development experience.
- Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native development experience.
- CI/CD pipeline implementation experience.
- Expert proficiency in at least 1 relevant programming language and professional proficiency in at least 1 additional relevant programming language.
- Strong understanding of software development best practices, application architecture, and SDLC methodologies.
Preferred / Additional Experience
- Proven ability to build executive-facing reporting, analytics, or dashboard solutions that turn complex data into actionable insights.
- Strong experience integrating data from multiple sources, including APIs, databases, data warehouses, and cloud platforms.
- Expertise with data visualization and reporting technologies such as Power BI, Tableau, Chart.js, D3.js, or equivalent tools.
- Experience designing scalable application architectures focused on performance, security, maintainability, and reliability.
- Proficiency with SQL and data modeling concepts, including dimensional models, KPIs, metrics, and reporting frameworks.
- Ability to collaborate with executives, product owners, business stakeholders, and data teams to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
- Experience building centralized reporting platforms, operational intelligence systems, or executive decision-support applications.
- Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers, driving technical strategy, and establishing engineering standards for large-scale initiatives.
Salary: USD 116,400 - 194,000 per year.
Technologies: REST APIs, ETL, Kubernetes, containers, microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, Angular, Docker, Power BI, Tableau, Chart.js, D3.js, SQL, dimensional models, KPIs, metrics, SAFe, Agile.
Location: Buffalo, New York, United States of America.
