M&T Bank is hiring a Business Architect - Institutional Services to play a crucial role in aligning strategic objectives with business capabilities that support long-term goals. You will be responsible for developing and enhancing the business architecture framework for the Wilmington Trust corporate trust and agency business using recognized standards.
What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain the business architecture framework and standards for Institutional Services.
- Drive accountability and adherence to business architecture standards, attributes, and nomenclature across supporting departments.
- Serve as liaison between business/functional areas and digital product owners to ensure business capabilities are clearly defined, documented, and communicated.
- Accountable for business capability modeling including process maps, collaboration diagrams, and other documentation for both current state and future state.
- Use modeling tools like ArchiMate and BPMN to document business architecture.
- Maintain repositories of business architecture deliverables with traceability.
- Assess current business capabilities and identify gaps or areas for improvement such as inefficiencies and redundancies.
- Support capability-based planning and investment decisions.
- Work closely with business leaders, product owners, and other key stakeholders to support change management and transformation initiatives.
- Communicate business capabilities to partners, drive alignment with business vision, and tailor messages based on audience.
- Provide guidance and training to less experienced team members.
- Understand and adhere to the company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls.
- Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of audit points.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 9 years’ related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 13 years’ higher education and/or work experience including a minimum of 9 years’ related experience.
- Robust understanding of full-cycle product development within an Agile framework.
- Knowledge of modeling tools (e.g., ArchiMate, BPMN).
- Proven experience in business process modeling and standards.
- Demonstrated experience working with business architecture frameworks.
Nice to Have
- Minimum of 3-5 years’ business architecture experience.
- Experience with business capability modeling, strategic planning and execution, process improvement, and transformation initiatives.
- Experience with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint).
- Knowledge of IT systems and how they support business functions.
- TOGAF Business Architecture certification, Certified Business Architect (CBA) based on BIZBOK, or BACOE Business Architecture Certification.
- Demonstrated experience working with multiple products and/or business lines.
- Experience with corporate trust and agency services.
- Proven track record of considering stakeholder perspectives and developing solutions.
- Demonstrates emotional intelligence and ability to adapt messages.
Technical Stack
- ArchiMate
- BPMN
- Excel
- Power BI
- PowerPoint
Team & Environment
Part of a dynamic, cross-functional Strategy and Execution team focused on digital innovation.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $136,787.30 - $227,978.83 Annual (USD)
Work Mode
This is an onsite position located in Clanton, Alabama, United States of America.
M&T Bank promotes an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.




