
At M&T Bank, we're transforming the way technology supports our business, customers, and communities. As a Cloud & Infrastructure Solution Architect, you will play a key role in designing innovative technology solutions that help modernize our infrastructure, accelerate cloud adoption, and enable enterprise-wide technology transformation.
This position is ideal for a technology professional who enjoys solving complex challenges, influencing technical direction, and collaborating across a broad range of stakeholders. You'll work closely with application owners, software engineers, platform teams, and fellow architects to design secure, scalable, and resilient solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards and strategic business objectives.
You'll join a highly collaborative architecture organization responsible for guiding technology decisions across infrastructure, cloud, platform, and application domains. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-scale technology initiatives while helping shape the future of M&T's technology landscape.
This role offers the opportunity to help drive M&T's ongoing transformation from legacy data center environments to modern cloud platforms. You will work across a diverse technology landscape and partner with application owners, developers, and engineering teams to architect solutions that support some of the bank's most critical technology initiatives.
Rather than focusing on a single application or platform, you'll have the opportunity to influence architectural decisions across multiple domains while working with both established and emerging technologies. This position provides broad exposure to enterprise-scale cloud, infrastructure, and modernization initiatives and a chance to make a meaningful impact on the future state of the bank's technology ecosystem.
Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 year's higher education and/or relevant work experience
Successful candidates will combine strong technical expertise with exceptional collaboration and communication skills. The ideal candidate has experience designing end-to-end technology solutions, creating architecture documentation and technical diagrams, and partnering with stakeholders throughout the solution lifecycle.
Individuals who thrive in this role are naturally curious, adaptable, and comfortable working across both modern cloud environments and complex legacy ecosystems. They can evaluate multiple solution options, articulate technical tradeoffs, and deliver architecture designs that balance business needs, technical requirements, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
This is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in M&T's technology transformation while helping shape architecture decisions that support the future growth and success of the organization.
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Great companies have an enduring sense of purpose. At M&T, our purpose is a simple one: make a difference in people’s lives and uplift the communities we serve. Founded in 1856 in Buffalo, NY we are now a top 11 full-service US-based commercial bank with a retail footprint across the east coast and wealth services available nationwide and abroad. As a bank, we offer advice, guidance, expertise, and solutions across the entire financial spectrum that combines M&T’s traditional banking services with the wealth management and institutional capabilities offered by Wilmington Trust. We are a community-minded organization with more than 167 years of experience. We serve customers, community, and colleagues whether they be across the street, across the state or across the country.
As an employer of choice, we are proud to offer competitive benefits ranging from medical and retirement to forty hours of paid volunteer time, each year. Our core values drive the work we do – integrity, ownership, collaboration, curiosity, candor and we seek to further build upon our record of success by bringing in top talent and fresh skill sets while continuing to support the growth and development of all our team members.
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.