Senior Infrastructure Analyst

We are seeking a highly skilled Infrastructure Analyst to join our talented IT team at M&T Bank. In this position, you will play a crucial role in spearheading infrastructure transformation efforts in collaboration with our App Dev partners.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvement across the organization.
• Design, implement, and maintain database systems to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Develop and implement automation solutions for database deployment, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.
• Collaborate with internal tech teams to identify opportunities to mature the bank's database ecosystem.
• Participate in the bank's DB COE to connect subject matter expertise to the bank's database community.
• Build and own portions of the vision for assigned agile technology teams that aligns with the overall strategic intent and communicate them with the teams and their stakeholders.
• Prioritize a feature backlog, in partnership with Product Owners and other leadership.
• Make autonomous decisions, quickly and thoughtfully, to move delivery forward in alignment with overall technology vision and strategy.
• Manage and lead the analysis of feasibility, cost, or other aspects of planned or potential programs.
• Participate in all appropriate team activities and ceremonies.
• Use a matrixed influencing approach to work with essential business partners throughout the organization often at a senior level and irrespective of hierarchy or divisions, advocating for the benefit of the customer.
• Focus on outcomes over outputs, incorporating design thinking methods and analytics to inform product design.
• Provide consultation on the design, building, testing and deployment of technology solutions and designs for the domain.
• Collaborate with domain leadership and enterprise architects to understand business drivers, business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding solution designs.
• Enable domain leadership to make business decisions by working with domain subject matter experts to evaluate technology solutions, articulating the value and tradeoffs of each option.
• Objectively evaluate and solve domain specific technology problems in partnership with domain SMEs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on initiatives and participate in cross-team Agile ceremonies.
• 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.

• Minimum of 10 years' higher education and/or work experience
• Minimum of 3 years of RDBMS experience
• OR in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years' higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years' RDBMS experience
• Experience in a technology leadership role required (experience managing direct reports preferred, but not required)
• Proficiency in SQL/Oracle, experience with relational database management systems (e.g., MySQL, SQL Server)
• Experience delivering in an Agile methodology, SAFe preferred but not required
• Experience with Agile backlog health routines including story creation and refinement

• Master's degree in technology-related field
• Minimum of 12 years' higher education and/or work experience

M&T Bank is a Top 20 US bank holding company and one of the best performing and financial stable regional banks in the country. We offer our technology employees a wide range of performance-based career development opportunities. We have a strong commitment to our customers and the communities we serve, and we continue to grow with a focus on the future.

We support our team members with generous benefits, including competitive compensation, health, welfare, and retirement benefits, 401(k) match at 5%, work-life balance and flexible work arrangements, and much more.