Cloud & Infrastructure Solution Architect

Regular travel to our Buffalo, NY (Seneca One) hub is required, with an expectation of working onsite one week per month.

At M&T Bank, we're transforming the way technology supports our business, customers, and communities. As a Cloud & Infrastructure Solution Architect, you will play a key role in designing innovative technology solutions that help modernize our infrastructure, accelerate cloud adoption, and enable enterprise-wide technology transformation. This position is ideal for a technology professional who enjoys solving complex challenges, influencing technical direction, and collaborating across a broad range of stakeholders.

You'll work closely with application owners, software engineers, platform teams, and fellow architects to design secure, scalable, and resilient solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards and strategic business objectives. You'll join a highly collaborative architecture organization responsible for guiding technology decisions across infrastructure, cloud, platform, and application domains. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-scale technology initiatives while helping shape the future of M&T's technology landscape.

This role offers the opportunity to help drive M&T's ongoing transformation from legacy data center environments to modern cloud platforms. You will work across a diverse technology landscape and partner with application owners, developers, and engineering teams to architect solutions that support some of the bank's most critical technology initiatives. Rather than focusing on a single application or platform, you'll have the opportunity to influence architectural decisions across multiple domains while working with both established and emerging technologies.

This position provides broad exposure to enterprise-scale cloud, infrastructure, and modernization initiatives and a chance to make a meaningful impact on the future state of the bank's technology ecosystem.

• Actively participate and collaborate on the design, building, testing, and deployment of technology solutions with assigned Agile teams.
• Collaborate with domain leadership and Enterprise Architects to understand business drivers, current and future-state capabilities, and strategic objectives.
• Design end-to-end technology solutions that align with architecture principles, technology standards, security requirements, and operational best practices.
• Produce and maintain architecture deliverables including solution architecture documents, conceptual designs, logical designs, physical designs, technical specifications, infrastructure diagrams, and network diagrams.
• Partner with application owners, software engineers, infrastructure teams, and platform engineering teams to develop scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.
• Evaluate solution options and communicate technical recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and benefits to stakeholders and leadership.
• Participate in the creation and evolution of enterprise architecture standards and ensure alignment of delivered solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on strategic initiatives and Agile team ceremonies.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies and industry trends that support business and technology objectives.
• Participate in architecture governance, design reviews, and technology planning activities.
• Assist in identifying and resolving architecture-related challenges across the technology landscape.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects across domains to support integrated, enterprise-wide solutions.
• Leverage existing enterprise capabilities, reusable services, and shared technology platforms to maximize efficiency and…