Engineering Team Lead - SDLC Tooling

Location: Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Salary: $116,400–$194,000 annual USD

Company

M&T Bank is a financial services organization operating enterprise technology platforms and software delivery capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and manage engineers and contract resources responsible for enterprise developer experience and SDLC platform services.
• Provide technical direction for GitLab SCM, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab Duo, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, Mend, IDE integrations, developer portals, and DevSecOps tooling.
• Develop the strategic roadmap for developer experience capabilities, platform modernization, integrations, migrations, and technology investments.
• Drive adoption of standards for source control, code review, CI/CD, testing automation, software quality, supply chain security, and release management.
• Ensure platform resiliency, scalability, observability, operational excellence, governance, compliance, and security remediation.
• Manage incidents, vendors, licensing, budgets, platform metrics, executive updates, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Onsite role based in Buffalo, New York, United States of America.
• At least 9 years of combined higher education and/or work experience, including 4 years of engineering and/or architecture experience and 3 years of leadership experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for enterprise platforms, DevOps, platform engineering, developer experience, or software development tooling.
• Experience managing complex technology initiatives and cross-functional engineering programs.
• Experience providing technical leadership for large-scale developer platforms and software delivery ecosystems.
• Strong organizational, leadership, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.

Nice to have

• Experience leading Enterprise Developer Experience, DevOps, Internal Developer Platform, or SDLC tooling organizations.
• Knowledge of GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab Duo, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, Mend, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and cloud engineering.
• Experience with software supply chain security, AI-assisted software development, DORA metrics, service-level objectives, and developer experience measurements.
• Experience presenting strategies, roadmaps, delivery updates, and investment recommendations to senior technology leadership.

Culture & Benefits

• Promotes engineering excellence, continuous learning, innovation, collaboration, accountability, and belonging.
• Includes responsibility for career development, succession planning, staffing, performance management, and talent coaching.
• Supports risk management, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, internal controls, and remediation activities.
• Provides involvement in vendor relationships, licensing, support agreements, resource planning, and budget forecasting.