Database Engineering Manager

This role offers a hybrid work schedule; offering the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while providing the opportunity for in-person collaboration

At M&T Tech, we’re a team of makers, doers, and builders, working to create the most advanced technology solutions in banking.  We’re not your stereotypical suit and tie bankers: we’re an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries, and taking risks.  We’re building an agile team of the most skilled and creative workers to solve complex problems, architect solutions, write high-performance software, and chart our new path, all to make the lives of our customers, and the communities that we serve, better.  Join us and be part of something new as we build tomorrow’s bank, today.

We are seeking an experienced Technology Manager to lead our Database Platform Engineering team and drive the development, optimization, and management of cutting-edge database platforms. In this role, you will oversee the day-to-day design, implementation, and delivery of scalable and secure database solutions that meet M&T's strategic objectives. In this role you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including infrastructure, software engineers and IT professionals, to ensure data integrity, accessibility, and performance across platforms.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the database engineering team, providing technical guidance and mentorship.

• Design, implement, and maintain robust database engineering platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.

• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, implementing best practices.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and ensure the DB platforms are in alignment.

• Lead technical product management activities for strategic products related to the Database Engineering program.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess needs, enhancement opportunities, and issues leading to a healthy Product backlog.

• Understand the group's technical product offerings, value, intended usages.  Develop product roadmap(s) for consumption by the team, partners, and stakeholders.

• Ensure delivery of messaging, communication, reporting, and customer outreach, as necessary.

• Partner with stakeholders to resolve production issues and drive escalations where required to ensure timely resolution.

• Lead the planning, development, and implementation of next gen features. Define and analyze technical markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.

• Employ a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually deliver value and improve the platform experience.

• Participate in and provide recommendations for ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.

• Participate in the team's engineering practices in development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.

• Implement technology consistent with Division standards and long-range plans. Ensure adherence to all Department and Technology standards and procedures, including all documentation requirements.

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the business environment and needs within the area of responsibility.  Understand technical, business, and operational impacts of a project or problem.

• Responsible for the job growth and career development of staff members by providing training plans, guidance and sharing knowledge.

• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

• Oversee multiple application development, support testing efforts, technology infrastructure/project management and/or other technology domains.  Organize and control activities of the teams, assign personnel to various projects and direct their activities. Ensure completion of schedules.  Responsible for short and long-term staffing planning. Coordinate activities with other managers as required.

• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite.  Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.  Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.

• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand.

• Exercise usual authority o