Database Engineering Manager

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid (with remote possibility for the right candidate)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

This role offers a hybrid work schedule, providing the flexibility to work from home two days a week while allowing for in-person collaboration. At M&T Tech, we are a team of makers, doers, and builders, dedicated to creating the most advanced technology solutions in banking. We are an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries and taking risks. We are building an agile team of skilled and creative workers to solve complex problems, architect solutions, write high-performance software, and chart our new path to improve the lives of our customers and communities.

Responsibilities

• Manages the activities of several Engineering and/or Architecture Managers and/or Team Leaders.
• Responsible for the budget of cost center(s) spanning concurrent development streams.
• Provides long and short-term strategic direction for the functional team for multiple applications and/or cost centers.
• Serves as the primary contact to the Engineering and/or Architecture and Technology leadership team and business partners.
• Oversees development and career planning for all team members.
• Manages and participates in consults with client management in the analysis of short and long-range business requirements and recommends innovations that anticipate future impact of changing business requirements.
• Responsible for building a positive client relationship.
• Monitors the technology direction of the industry and vendor applications.
• Researches and initiates change to the status quo when necessary.
• Responsible for vendor and product analysis and recommendations.
• Builds rapport within the organization, communicating and developing a professional level of communication and cooperation.
• Maintains relationships with vendors and professional organizations.
• Oversees multiple application development, support testing efforts, technology infrastructure/project management, and/or other technology domains.
• Organizes and controls team activities, assigns personnel to various projects, and directs their activities to ensure schedule completion.
• Responsible for short and long-term staffing planning.
• Coordinates activities with other managers as required.
• Implements technology consistent with Division standards and long-range plans.
• Ensures adherence to all Department and Technology standards and procedures, including all documentation requirements.
• Oversees recommended designs based on business and technology requirements.
• Manages escalated issues and concerns.
• Stays current on activities outside the team that may impact the team or client environment.
• Develops and manages multiple cost center budgets.
• Recommends and initiates new policies and procedures that improve the performance and effectiveness of the Department.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of the business environment and needs within the area of responsibility.
• Understands technical, business, and operational impacts of a project or problem.
• Responsible for the job growth and career development of staff members by providing training plans, guidance, and sharing knowledge.
• Exercises usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management, and terminations.
• Understands and adheres to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite.
• Designs, implements, maintains, and enhances internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.
• Identifies risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promotes an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Maintains M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit findings.

Requirements

• Not specified

Company Information

At M&T Tech, we’re a team of makers, doers, and builders, working to create the most advanced technology solutions in banking. We’re not your stereotypical suit and tie bankers: we’re an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries, and taking risks. We’re building an agile team of the most skilled and creative workers to solve complex problems, architect solutions, write high-performance software, and chart our new path, all to make the lives of our customers, and the communities that we serve, better. Join us and be part of something new as we build tomorrow’s bank, today.