Master Enterprise Architect

FUNCTION:

Documents, visualizes, and articulates overall technical health, current and target states of Enterprise Architecture, in collaboration with senior leadership at an enterprise level. Leads the development of roadmaps with senior leadership for a targeted domain / function, and connects them with the broader Enterprise technology landscape, including alignment to industry Enterprise Architecture standards, building a pathway to achieve target state goals.

• Leverage expertise in technical and business strategy to collaborate with Senior Technology leaders of various domains to support strategic decision making.
• Provide consultation services to improve domain technology delivery and operational efficiency.
• Own and drive the Enterprise Architecture governance process and influence decision making for senior technology leaders by leveraging research and fact-based recommendations for various domains.
• Influence senior technology leaders’ decision making by synthesizing research and fact-based recommendations from Enterprise Architects to support the domain in the Enterprise Architecture governance process.
• Provide thought leadership and build strong stakeholder partnerships to articulate current state, target state and roadmap of a given domain.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies to lead the partnership with delivery teams and domain leadership on architecture areas to include business, application, data, Cloud/infrastructure, security, integration, operations and support, in preparation for S3/S4 meetings and Architectural Review Board meetings.
• Research, understand and apply existing, new, and emerging technologies and trends to determine their potential impact on technology domains.
• Translate the enterprise's technology future-state architecture vision into principles, guidelines, standards, and patterns to ensure alignment with broader strategic goals.
• Identify and communicate opportunities and approaches for solving domain problems that may include new products, new platforms, or system enhancements to domain leadership.
• Create and maintain reference materials for use by the technical delivery team to ensure consistent and compliant solutions for enterprise level architecture patterns.
• Drive the planning and design of strategic initiatives that require architecture oversight and guidance.
• 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.
• Additional Duties as assigned.

This position will interface with senior leaders and will require excellent communication skills along with a strong knowledge of new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of those trends for strategic use.

• Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 13 year's higher education and/or relevant work experience
• Experience negotiating, influencing, and achieving alignment with senior technology and business leaders
• 9 or more years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patters
• Experience in utilizing architectural frameworks
• Experience working with enterprise architecture tools
• Experience in architecture modeling to strategically plan capabilities within domains
• Work experience in software engineering, software delivery and solution architecture

• Graduate degree in business or technical discipline
• Certification and experience working with Cloud technologies and vendors
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience working…