Engineering Team Lead - Digital Sales & Onboarding

This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week. Overview The Engineering Team Lead for M&T Bank’s Digital Sales & Onboarding (DSO) Platform manages a team of 8–9 software engineers responsible for the digital journeys customers use to open bank accounts, open credit cards, and apply for loans. The role blends people leadership, technical ownership, and platform modernization, ensuring the team delivers scalable, resilient, and high‑quality digital experiences. Primary Responsibilities Leadership & Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers ranging from early‑career to senior levels, fostering a culture of growth, accountability, and engineering excellence. Provide coaching, performance management, staffing planning, and career development for direct reports. Maintain strong communication and cooperation within the organization. Governance, Risk & Controls: Ensure adherence to all department and technology standards, procedures, and documentation requirements. Implement and maintain internal controls to mitigate risk and ensure timely implementation of internal/external audit points and regulatory requirements. Delivery & Execution: Oversee application development, testing support, infrastructure coordination, and project management activities. Manage the project queue for the DSO Platform, ensuring timely completion of schedules and alignment with business priorities. Provide technical oversight for contractor teams, ensuring adherence to engineering standards and architectural direction. Technical Strategy & Platform Ownership: Define and execute the technical roadmap for the DSO Platform with a focus on modernization, scalability, and resilience. Drive major engineering initiatives such as migrating Angular and .NET applications to Azure, adopting enterprise engineering standards, improving vulnerability management, and enabling feature development through platform enhancements. Education and Experience 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 of leadership experience. Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical initiatives. Strong understanding of the system development life cycle, proficiency with project management tools, and excellent problem‑solving, analytical, communication, and decision‑making skills. Familiarity with application development platforms, cloud technologies, modern engineering practices, and the ability to encourage teamwork and serve as a role model. Understanding of technical, business, and operational impacts of projects. Education and Experience Preferred Bachelor’s degree. Minimum of 10 years’ technology management or large program leadership experience. Extensive application and product knowledge, and subject matter expert understanding of applications supported and interfacing/integrated applications. Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities and understanding of the Bank’s application framework, business plan, and strategic objectives. Self‑motivated with the ability to motivate others and familiar with banking terminology and business processes. Pay Range: $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). Location: Buffalo, New York, United States. M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation. M&T Bank is unwavering when it comes to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, age, disability, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, military status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr