Senior Solution Architect

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full time
• Salary: Not specified

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.

This role supports all portfolios within the enterprise through architecting comprehensive cloud, datacenter, and hybrid solutions to meet business and platform needs. Works collaboratively with all roles and levels to create solutions that align to standards, patterns, principles, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Use expertise in cloud and data center technologies and delivery to provide complete architecture solutions and patterns working with application, infrastructure, platform, data, security, and teams.
• Provide consultation on the design, building, testing, and deployment of technology solutions.
• 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 architectures that align with Enterprise Architecture principles and vision.
• Apply cybersecurity, technology, risk principles, and standards to ensure proposed solutions are compliant.
• Research and identify the potential impact of existing, new, and emerging domain technologies, best practices, and trends; publish findings internally for use by technology team members to leverage in current and future projects.
• Align governance activities to the Bank’s architecture standards and escalate to the appropriate stakeholders as needed.
• Objectively evaluate and solve domain-specific architecture problems in partnership with domain SMEs.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years’ higher education and/or relevant work experience.
• 5 years of experience as a solution architect providing holistic architecture design.
• 5 years of experience delivering cloud-native solutions on Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• 5 years utilizing diagramming tools to produce architecture designs.
• An understanding of network, security, application, and data concepts, components, and standard architectures.
• Experience creating arc (incomplete)