Overview
Responsible at the expert level for mainframe software engineering, technical solution delivery, and technical requirements definition. Serves as an individual-contributor technical lead for critical mainframe applications and platforms.
Primary Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Engineering Delivery
- Lead technical design, development, enhancement, and support of mainframe applications while ensuring SDLC governance.
- Own technical decisions and delivery quality for assigned platforms, workstreams, or application domains.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to align delivery with priorities, requirements, risk controls, and enterprise standards.
Software Engineering Excellence
- Deliver secure, efficient, maintainable, and resilient code using enterprise mainframe technologies.
- Lead mainframe design, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and support across batch and online processing.
- Establish coding standards, development practices, and quality expectations for maintainability, performance, security, and resiliency.
SDLC, DevOps & Quality Engineering
- Review and approve solution designs, pull requests, code changes, peer reviews, source control practices, and deployment readiness.
- Define test strategy for mainframe changes, including batch validation, regression testing, data reconciliation, performance checks, and implementation verification.
- Promote CI/CD, functional automation, standardization, and DevOps practices to improve productivity and reduce manual effort.
Technical Requirements & Solution Design
- Ensure requirements, solution designs, and implementation plans are complete, feasible, scalable, secure, and aligned with business and technical standards.
- Guide architecture, integration patterns, modernization, engineering processes, and technical decision-making across mainframe and connected platforms.
- Translate complex mainframe constraints into business, delivery, risk, and operational impacts while resolving technical blockers.
Operational Excellence & Modernization
- Drive mainframe modernization, including API enablement, data integration, DevOps adoption, technical debt reduction, and incremental refactoring.
- Own technical health by improving resiliency, reducing defects, addressing technical debt, and guiding remediation plans.
- Ensure production readiness for batch schedules, online transactions, restart/recovery, monitoring, support documentation, and reliability improvements.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering and automation responsibly across SDLC and operational processes where appropriate.
Communication & Collaboration
- Communicate architecture, technical decisions, progress, risks, and challenges clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
- Influence technical decisions across teams without direct authority and present solutions in architecture reviews, forums, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Maintain documentation and partner across business, product, architecture, infrastructure, security, operations, risk, and audit teams.
- Ensure technical changes comply with company risk, regulatory, policy, change management, security, data protection, access control, and operational risk standards.
- Escalate risk-related issues as needed and address audit and regulatory items on time.
- Support a culture of belonging, reflect the M&T Bank brand, maintain internal controls, and complete other assigned duties.
Scope of Responsibilities
- Serve as an individual-contributor technical lead accountable for technical direction, design quality, code review, modernization guidance, and production stability; this role does not include direct people management.
- Own technical outcomes for assigned mainframe applications, platforms, workstreams, or domains, including solution design, delivery quality, operational readiness, and risk remediation.
- Influence engineers, architects, product, operations, security, infrastructure, risk, and audit partners through technical expertise, documentation, standards, and collaboration.
Education & Experience Required:
- Associate’s degree and a minimum of 5 years’ systems analysis and/ or application development work experience or Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years’ systems analysis and/ or application development work experience. In lieu of degree, a combined minimum of 7 years’ education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 3 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience
Required Technical Skills
- IBM z/OS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2 for z/OS, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, and Easytrieve+.
- GitLab for source control, change management, and CI/CD pipeline management.
- Mainframe debugging and analysis tools such as File-AID, Abend-AID, Xpediter, InterTest, or equivalent.
- Batch scheduling and enterprise integration experience with CA7, Control-M, MQ, or equivalent.
Required Leadership & Delivery Experience
- Expert analytical skills specific to software engineering and application development.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, project deliverables, or engineering workstreams as an individual-contributor technical lead.
- Experience reviewing solution designs, technical requirements, code changes, and implementation approaches.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, testing, deployment, resiliency, security, and change management practices.
Education & Experience Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a minimum of 5 years of systems analysis and/or application development experience.
Preferred Technical Skills
- Experience supporting mainframe modernization through z/OS Connect, ZDIH, API enablement, event/data integration, technical debt reduction, and platform resiliency.
- Experience with mainframe DevOps, release readiness, automation testing, and AI-assisted engineering tools where appropriate.
Preferred Delivery & Collaboration Experience
- Experience improving production stability, defect reduction, and engineering productivity.
- Experience influencing technical decisions and presenting to stakeholders across technology and business departments.
- Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks.
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $97,100.00 - $161,800.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Location
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
