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Team Tech Lead – KYC / BSA/AML Technology

M&T Bank

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Base salary $116,400  to $194,000

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Buffalo, NY

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  • LocationBuffalo, NY
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (58 min ago) · observed since

About this job

This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week


Position Summary

The Team Tech Lead is the senior technical leader and engineering quality steward for an Agile delivery team supporting KYC and BSA/AML technology solutions.

The Lead provides technical direction across application development, data engineering, system integration, and platform modernization. The role guides architecture and design decisions, establishes engineering standards, mentor engineers, helps resolve complex technical challenges, and ensures solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with M&T technology standards.


Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Design

  • Provide technical leadership for KYC and BSA/AML applications, data platforms, integrations, and services.
  • Apply technical expertise within Know Your Customer (KYC) and Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) technology environments.
  • Provide technical leadership for.NET application development, services, APIs, and microservices.
  • Lead the design, development, and optimization of SSIS-based data integration solutions, SQL Server Databases and enterprise data pipelines.
  • Translate business, regulatory, and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Guide solution design and implementation, evaluate technical approaches and clearly communicate trade-offs involving performance, scalability, maintainability, security, resiliency, and complexity.
  • Partner with enterprise Architecture, infrastructure/platform teams, Product Owners, and other Leads on solutions and dependencies that span multiple teams.
  • Conduct and guide architecture, design, and code reviews for complex changes.
  • Mentor developers in modern development practices and service-oriented architecture.
  • Establish and enforce appropriate code-review, branching, testing, and deployment practices.
  • Drive improvements in automated testing, code quality, technical documentation, and engineering controls.
  • Proactively identify and manage technical debt.
  • Demonstrate proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and promote their responsible use across the software-development lifecycle.
  • Identify opportunities and apply AI tools where appropriate to accelerate software development, unit-test development, troubleshooting, code analysis, and technical documentation.
  • Lead investigation and resolution of complex issues across application components in production and other environments including root-cause analysis and performance optimization.
  • Identify opportunities and provide technical leadership to simplify legacy implementations, reduce operational risk, and improve maintainability.
  • Work with engineering and support teams to strengthen application resiliency, monitoring, recoverability, and operational readiness.

Education and Experience Required:

  • A combined minimum of 9 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ engineering and/or architecture experience and 3 years leadership experience
  • .NET / C# development
  • SSIS development and support
  • SQL Server
  • REST APIs and microservices
  • Advanced SQL development and SQL performance tuning
  • Application and system integration
  • GitLab
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • SAST/DAST vulnerability remediation
  • Automated testing and engineering-quality practices
  • AI-assisted software development, testing, troubleshooting, and technical documentation
  • Production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
  • Application and database performance optimization
  • Experience implementing & supporting KYC and/or BSA/AML technology

Education and Experience Preferred:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Financial-services technology experience, with KYC/BSA/AML experience.
  • Strong software engineering and solution-design experience.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership of engineering teams or complex technical initiatives.
  • Strong experience in mentoring and developing engineers/teams.
  • Experience designing and integrating applications using established architecture principles and patterns.
  • Strong experience across application, database, API, and data-integration technologies.
  • Ability to research complex technical issues, evaluate multiple approaches, and clearly articulate recommendations and trade-offs.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, product, business, risk, and management stakeholders.
  • Experience working in an Agile engineering environment.
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.

Location

Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Source: M&T Bank on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($116,400) is above 5% of the 960 Software Engineering roles in New York listed on this site; 17 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $175,000; the middle half runs from $145,000 to $200,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live M&T Bank roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live M&T Bank roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Team Tech Lead – KYC / BSA/AML Technology (this listing)$116,400 - $194,000
Lead Network Security Engineer$116,400 - $194,000
Lead Data Engineer$116,400 - $194,000
Lead Software Engineer - ServiceNow$116,400 - $194,000
Lead Calypso Solutions Developer$116,400 - $194,000
Senior Mainframe Storage and Backup Administrator$116,400 - $194,000
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – NICE Actimize Fraud Platforms$116,400 - $194,000

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All M&T Bank roles · How to read the bar

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2026-10-27
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: Buffalo, NY

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 combina

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