This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week.
The Senior Principal Cloud & Platform Engineer is a senior‑level individual contributor responsible for defining, standardizing, and evolving core cloud and platform engineering capabilities used across the enterprise. This role provides deep technical leadership for cloud platforms, engineering standards, and reference implementations that enable application teams to build and operate solutions in a consistent, secure, and scalable manner.
The position operates primarily upstream of delivery execution, focusing on platform design, cloud standards, and technical enablement that reduce complexity and rework across application and migration initiatives. The role partners closely with architecture, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align to enterprise technology standards and delivery needs.
This role does not carry people‑management accountability and is grounded in hands‑on technical leadership and applied engineering expertise.
Cloud & Platform Engineering Leadership
Platform Standards & Reference Architectures
Engineering Enablement
Upstream Modernization & Migration Support
Hands‑On Technical Contribution
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
Combined minimum of 10 years’ higher education and/or experience in systems design, management, and/or architecture
Thorough understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design
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M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $139,700.00 - $232,900.00 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.
