Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solution Architect

Requirements

• 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
• 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 architecture patterns and roadmaps
• Experience communicating, presenting to, and influencing all levels of audiences including both business and technical from executives to engineers
• Experience performing research to self-educate on technology, patterns and industry best practices.

Responsibilities

• Use your 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a technical discipline
• Experience delivering native solutions in the Azure cloud platform
• Industry recognized certification in Azure cloud technologies
• Experience working in a lead capacity related to banking technical design
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience with industry standard architecture frameworks
• Understanding of cloud FinOps practices