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Completes work following banking technology standards and contributes to the overall stability and resiliency of banking technology within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) while also coaching others.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nDevelop and coach other team members while also working independently on the applications within the boundaries of approved Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, including identification and recommendation of metrics to solve business needs and minimize risks to the Bank through clean and resilient code.\nReview and approve the designs and proposals of pull requests and oversee the execution on the change management of the request.\nDesign process for peer review and coach others on code reviews, code quality, and improvements.\nAuthor organized, clean, efficient, and secure source code at the expert level in a minimum of one programming language and moderate proficiency in a minimum of one other language while coaching team members on the appropriate data structure and algorithms to solve business problems.\nOversee the source control management inclusions of other team members and perform the merging of code developments into the production deployment path.\nReview testing methodology and code coverage of team members to ensure comprehensive testing is accomplished and coach others on areas of opportunity.\nDrive implementation adherence with patterns and practices for performance testing, resiliency, and optimization within their domain.\nReview, and approve requirement plans on behalf of the team in alignment with delivery partners and ensure requirement completeness, accuracy, and feasibility.\nServe as key partner with other groups; suggest continuous process improvement spanning organizational boundaries where, in their own judgement, technical or architectural concerns require it.\n Contribute technical requirements where appropriate in support of delivery and maintenance solutions within their domain.\nUnderstand and effectively communicates architecture, progress, and challenges to business or technical stakeholders and teams.\nContribute ideas and recommendations to the team's application architectural design work, engineering practices and pattern changes, and present at architecture peer group and architecture review board meetings within their domain.\nPresent team's work at internal meetings with other peers and author internal blog posts.\nUnderstand 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.\nPromote an environment that supports a culture of belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.\nMaintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.\nComplete other related duties as assigned.\nScope of Responsibilities:\nSupervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:\nNo supervisory responsibilities.\nEducation and Experience Required:\nAssociate’s degree and a minimum of 7 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience or Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years' systems analysis and/or application development work experience. In lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 year’s education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 5 years’ system analysis and/or application development work experience.\nExpert proficiency in a minimum of 1 relevant programming language and professional proficiency in a minimum of 1 additional relevant programming language.\nEducation and Experience Preferred:\nExpert analytical skills specific to application development\nExperience working in a team environment\nAbility to work autonomously\nAbility to multitask on multiple complex projects\nStrong organizational skills\nStrong time management skills\nAdvanced verbal and written communication skills\nExperience driving project milestones and delivery dates\nProven experience leading a project or initiative\nExperience partnering with and presenting to multiple stakeholders within technology and business departments\nM&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. 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