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The goals of the program are to reduce operational issues and risks by standardizing processes, implementing best-practices in key areas, and adding new governance and control functions. In addition, long term digital transformation is required to grow revenue through new and transformed digital-first trust and agency service products, to move from a product-centric to client-centric operating model, to move from market-specific to global solutions, and to dramatically lower the cost to serve. These two strategic focus areas are driving growth in overall business investment.\nInstitutional Services is advancing a strategic platform initiative to simplify and standardize transaction management across the full lifecycle, from onboarding through ongoing administration. A strong data architecture will provide the trusted, consistent, and scalable foundation needed to strengthen controls, improve the user experience, and support future growth.\nJOB SUMMARY:\nIn alignment with IS’s growing investment, we are looking for a senior Data Solution Architect who can translate complex business processes into a scalable, governed, and implementable data architecture. Who can provide guidance that supports the development of a key strategic platform that integrates data from disparate systems to drive business solutions. Plan and designs solutions that are cost-effective, compliant with enterprise policies and corporate technology standards and align with business and technology strategies. Is a key resource in helping to set the technology direction for Data.\nThis role is a senior data architecture role responsible for shaping strategy, translating strategy into detailed solution designs, and guiding implementation teams through delivery. The role is not intended to perform data engineering build work or application development; it defines the architecture, data models, data contracts, governance requirements, integration patterns, and implementation-ready design artifacts that delivery teams use to build the solution.\nPOSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:\nLead the technical design and data integration for a highly complex data project involving multiple technologies that integrates data across multiple domains.\nWork with the business to understand requirements and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models.\nProduces data artifacts such data dictionaries, source to record matrices, data flow diagrams, data lineage documentation.\nCreate API Schema and transition state architecture.\nProduce the design artifacts that account for different data frequencies and ensure Service Level Agreements (SLA) are documented and accounted for in the design.\nIdentify any strategy gaps in solution and work with team members and senior management to develop plans to rectify gaps.\nAssess existing systems, data structures and integrations, identify duplication or gaps, and define a phased path to the target architecture.\nCreate a data governance framework for the new solution, including data quality rules, and audit requirements.\nEnsure designs are cloud-ready and portable with minimum rework by documenting any transition state architecture and incorporating multi cloud components.\nWork with the agile team to ensure the documented best practices are used in data platform development and address identified training gaps.\nEstablish non-functional standards in designs; design, refactor, optimize and establish interaction of multiple flexible frameworks to maximize reusability across value chain capabilities to streamline efficiencies.\nWork with the agile team, technology leads, and senior management in release train discussions to determine key dependencies for stories and align solutions to add business value.\nHelp in the establishment of data architecture standards and ensure they are met across releases.\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.\nIdentify risk-related issues needing escalation to management\nPromote an environment that supports 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.\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:\nBachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 13 years higher education and/ or work experience, including a minimum of 9 years related experience\nExperience with leading an initiative that spans across multiple technology practices and business verticals\nExperience creating componentized scalable designs\nExperience in driving the design, refactor and optimization of frameworks\nExperience with multiple programming languages and tools and how they integrate\nExperience in containerization technologies\nExperience implementing scalable designs on at least one mainstream cloud provider platform\nExperience implementing data architecture and integration concepts\nIDEAL QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED:\nMinimum of 7 years of data solution architecture experience, including experience defining target-state and transition-state architecture for complex enterprise platforms.\nExperience implementing initiatives that have impact enterprise wide\nThe Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Cloud Solution Architecture on Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Certification\nExperience in pertinent data modeling platforms\nExperience with multiple Not Only Structured Query Language (NoSQL) platforms\nExperience with data lake and data warehousing design\nExperience with real time data processing and high-volume low latency systems\nExperience defining conceptual, logical and physical data models\nAbility to establish authoritative data sources, ownership and lineage\nAbility to rationalize data across multiple legacy platforms\nExperience designing canonical data models and reusable API data contracts\nExperience defining data-quality, reconciliation and audit requirements\nExperience creating phased transition plans from current- to future-state architecture\nWorking across business, product, architecture and engineering teams\nM&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $163,100.00 - $271,900.00 Annual (USD). 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