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M&T Bank · 20 hours ago

Engineering Team Lead - IS Mergers & Acquisitions Technology

Wilmington, DE

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$128K/yr - $214K/yr

9+ years exp

M&T Bank is experiencing rapid business growth in its Wilmington Trust Institutional Services division and is seeking an Engineering Team Lead for its Mergers & Acquisitions Technology. The role involves leading a full stack engineering team to modernize the platform, ensuring reliable technology solutions, and managing team performance while adhering to compliance standards.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Jenna Bissonette

Responsibilities

Lead a team of 5-8 engineers and contribute to technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance

Implement new technologies and follow development standards by properly using the existing bank dev platforms (i.e. Gitlab) and/or extending for IS development

Review key technical development execution stats and implement continuous improvements

Complete and oversee basic to complex systems analysis, design and development

Play a key role as an engineering lead on complex projects

Maintain an excellent functional understanding of the supported applications

Ensure reliable technology solutions through effective systems design, development, release management, change control, and incident problem-solving

Maintain efficient operation and effectiveness of supported applications

Author systems architecture documentation, technical specifications, and technical tasks aligned to user stories, with traceability to concrete technical components

Create developer-friendly documentation that is founded in architecture components, well defined, and easily traced from high to low level detail

Maintain accurate systems data as part of enterprise-wide technology tracking tools

Evaluate and understand complex interrelationships and effects among programs, interfacing applications and platforms

Provide highly analytical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies to assist business units in meeting strategic objectives

Create custom code and maintain knowledge of DevOps utilities and test harnesses, perform code reviews, and oversee code merge and elevation

Define objectives for team members, provide coaching and performance feedback

Develop a culture of execution excellence by proactively managing talent and performance

Effective formal and informal communication with stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and technology teams

Direct and monitor team members and coordinate development tasks on small to large scope projects

Adhere to internal control standards and address audit points and regulatory issues

Understand M&T Tech’s standards for technology risk management, cybersecurity, IT Asset management, Resiliency & Recovery and ensure compliance

Escalate risk-related concerns to management as needed

Recommend new technologies, policies, or processes

Evaluate vendor software

Qualification

Full stack software engineeringC#.NETAgile methodologiesJavaScript frameworksSQLDevOps toolsetsFinancial technology systemsTechnical leadershipProblem-solvingCommunicationTime-managementCross-functional team coordinationTechnical mentorship

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

Hands-on experience with full stack software engineering, object-oriented languages (C#, .NET), front-end JavaScript/HTML frameworks (preferably Angular), data access technologies (preferably Entity Framework and SQL), software packaging tools (preferably NuGet and NPM), source code management tools (preferably Gitlab)

Some experience with SIEM tools (preferably Splunk) and log management platforms (preferably ELK)

Advanced knowledge and focus of the entire system to work on projects outside of normal business-as-usual (BAU)

Has operated in an Agile environment (preferably SAFe), collaborates effectively within iterative development cycles and scaled agile practices

CI /CD pipelines, DevOps toolsets (Git, GitLab, Artifactory, NuGet, NPM, NodeJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, MS Build, or SonarQube), some scripting experience (YAML, PowerShell, Linux/Bash, or Perl)

Experience working in Banks in a technology role supporting investment banking, client management, core banking, payments, financial reporting, loan or debt management functions

Some experience with COTS business application vendors and IT vendors

Technical leadership, problem-solving, communication, time-management, cross-functional team coordination, and technical mentorship

Preferred

Experience implementing Customer Identity and Access Management systems, including identity management and identity verification, account verification using third party services in US and Europe

Institutional Financial Products (Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Trust Accounts, Investment Funds, Bonds, Structured Finance, etc.)

Company

M&T Bank

Glassdoor3.6

Great companies have an enduring sense of purpose.

Founded in 1856

Buffalo, New York, US

10001+ employees

http://www.mtb.com

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