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Engineering Team Lead roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which requires your employer to document that no qualified U.S. workers are available before filing your I-140 petition. Leading engineering teams typically satisfies specialty occupation requirements under both categories, giving you a path to permanent residency.
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Get Access To All JobsThis role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week
Overview:
The Engineering Team Lead for M&T Bank’s Digital Sales & Onboarding (DSO) Platform manages a team of 8–9 software engineers responsible for the digital journeys customers use to open bank accounts, open credit cards, and apply for loans. This role blends people leadership, technical ownership, and platform modernization, ensuring the team delivers scalable, resilient, and high‑quality digital experiences. The Team Lead provides day‑to‑day direction for engineering activities, oversees application development and support, manages client and stakeholder expectations, and ensures alignment with enterprise engineering standards. The role also includes oversight of contractor teams supporting business‑funded initiatives, ensuring consistency in architecture, code quality, and delivery practices. This position is designed to drive strong team health, clear technical direction, and effective execution while minimizing fragmentation across teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers ranging from early‑career to senior levels, fostering a culture of growth, accountability, and engineering excellence.
- Provide coaching, performance management, staffing planning, and career development for direct reports.
- Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Build rapport across teams and maintain strong communication and cooperation within the organization.
Governance, Risk & Controls
- Ensure adherence to all department and technology standards, procedures, and documentation requirements.
- Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls.
- Implement and maintain internal controls to mitigate risk; escalate issues as appropriate.
- Ensure timely implementation of internal/external audit points and regulatory requirements.
Delivery & Execution
- Oversee application development, testing support, infrastructure coordination, and project management activities.
- Manage the project queue for the DSO Platform, ensuring timely completion of schedules and alignment with business priorities.
- Provide technical oversight for contractor teams, ensuring adherence to engineering standards and architectural direction.
- Act as the connective layer between teams—driving consistency, reducing rework, and ensuring smooth transitions of work.
Technical Strategy & Platform Ownership
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for the DSO Platform with a focus on modernization, scalability, and resilience. Drive major engineering initiatives, including: Migrating Angular and .NET applications to Azure, Adopting and operationalizing enterprise engineering standards, Improving vulnerability management and platform stability, and Enabling feature development through platform enhancements (e.g., data model evolution, third‑party integrations)
- Monitor industry technology trends and vendor solutions; recommend innovations that anticipate future business needs.
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
- Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical initiatives.
- Strong understanding of the system development life cycle.
- Proficiency with project management tools and productivity applications.
- Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, communication, and decision‑making skills.
- Familiarity with application development platforms, cloud technologies, and modern engineering practices.
- Ability to encourage teamwork and serve as a role model for others.
- Understanding of technical, business, and operational impacts of projects.
Education and Experience Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 10 years’ technology management or large program leadership experience
- Extensive application and product knowledge experience with skills, application(s) and functions of technology area led
- Subject Matter Expert understanding of applications supported with an advanced knowledge of interfacing/integrated applications
- Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities.
- Understanding of the Bank’s application framework, business plan, and strategic objectives.
- Self‑motivated with the ability to motivate others.
- Familiarity with banking terminology and business processes.
LI-JB3 #Hybrid
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
This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week
Overview:
The Engineering Team Lead for M&T Bank’s Digital Sales & Onboarding (DSO) Platform manages a team of 8–9 software engineers responsible for the digital journeys customers use to open bank accounts, open credit cards, and apply for loans. This role blends people leadership, technical ownership, and platform modernization, ensuring the team delivers scalable, resilient, and high‑quality digital experiences. The Team Lead provides day‑to‑day direction for engineering activities, oversees application development and support, manages client and stakeholder expectations, and ensures alignment with enterprise engineering standards. The role also includes oversight of contractor teams supporting business‑funded initiatives, ensuring consistency in architecture, code quality, and delivery practices. This position is designed to drive strong team health, clear technical direction, and effective execution while minimizing fragmentation across teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers ranging from early‑career to senior levels, fostering a culture of growth, accountability, and engineering excellence.
- Provide coaching, performance management, staffing planning, and career development for direct reports.
- Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Build rapport across teams and maintain strong communication and cooperation within the organization.
Governance, Risk & Controls
- Ensure adherence to all department and technology standards, procedures, and documentation requirements.
- Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls.
- Implement and maintain internal controls to mitigate risk; escalate issues as appropriate.
- Ensure timely implementation of internal/external audit points and regulatory requirements.
Delivery & Execution
- Oversee application development, testing support, infrastructure coordination, and project management activities.
- Manage the project queue for the DSO Platform, ensuring timely completion of schedules and alignment with business priorities.
- Provide technical oversight for contractor teams, ensuring adherence to engineering standards and architectural direction.
- Act as the connective layer between teams—driving consistency, reducing rework, and ensuring smooth transitions of work.
Technical Strategy & Platform Ownership
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for the DSO Platform with a focus on modernization, scalability, and resilience. Drive major engineering initiatives, including: Migrating Angular and .NET applications to Azure, Adopting and operationalizing enterprise engineering standards, Improving vulnerability management and platform stability, and Enabling feature development through platform enhancements (e.g., data model evolution, third‑party integrations)
- Monitor industry technology trends and vendor solutions; recommend innovations that anticipate future business needs.
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
- Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical initiatives.
- Strong understanding of the system development life cycle.
- Proficiency with project management tools and productivity applications.
- Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, communication, and decision‑making skills.
- Familiarity with application development platforms, cloud technologies, and modern engineering practices.
- Ability to encourage teamwork and serve as a role model for others.
- Understanding of technical, business, and operational impacts of projects.
Education and Experience Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 10 years’ technology management or large program leadership experience
- Extensive application and product knowledge experience with skills, application(s) and functions of technology area led
- Subject Matter Expert understanding of applications supported with an advanced knowledge of interfacing/integrated applications
- Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities.
- Understanding of the Bank’s application framework, business plan, and strategic objectives.
- Self‑motivated with the ability to motivate others.
- Familiarity with banking terminology and business processes.
LI-JB3 #Hybrid
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
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Engineering Team Lead
Align your credentials with EB-2 requirements
A bachelor's degree alone may qualify you for EB-3, but a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive engineering leadership experience typically positions you for EB-2, which can mean shorter waits for nationals of most countries.
Target employers with PERM filing history
Search the DOL's OFLC disclosure data for companies that have filed PERM applications for engineering leadership roles. Employers who have completed this process before move faster and are less likely to stall your case over internal HR unfamiliarity.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring employers
Filter for Engineering Team Lead positions at companies with active green card sponsorship history. Migrate Mate surfaces employers who have filed PERM or I-140 petitions for similar roles, so you're targeting real sponsorship intent rather than guessing.
Verify the job description supports PERM approval
PERM requires the job duties and degree requirements to match the role as normally defined by USCIS. If your offer letter describes broad general management with no engineering-specific duties, DOL may determine the position does not require a specialty degree.
Confirm prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Run the offered salary against the OFLC Wage Search for your job title, level, and location. Your employer must pay at least the prevailing wage certified on the LCA, and a wage set too low at hire will need to be corrected before PERM filing.
Clarify your priority date strategy during negotiation
Ask whether your employer will file an I-140 concurrently with PERM or wait for approval first. Filing concurrently after PERM approval locks in your priority date sooner, which matters significantly if you were born in a country with a visa backlog.
Green Card Engineering Team Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Engineering Team Lead role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Engineering Team Lead positions qualify under EB-3 as skilled workers requiring a bachelor's degree, and many qualify under EB-2 if the role requires an advanced degree or the candidate holds a master's degree. The classification depends on how the employer defines minimum requirements in the PERM job description, not just the candidate's actual credentials.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 is a permanent immigrant pathway with no annual lottery and no cap at the EB-3 petition level. The H-1B visa is a temporary status subject to an annual lottery and a six-year limit. PERM takes longer overall, often 18 to 36 months from filing to approval, but the outcome is lawful permanent residency, not a renewable temporary status.
What does the PERM process look like for an Engineering Team Lead position?
Your employer files a PERM application with DOL after completing a supervised recruitment process to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers were available for the role. DOL audits are common for management and leadership titles. Once PERM is certified, your employer files Form I-140 with USCIS to establish your immigrant visa petition and lock in your priority date.
How do I find Engineering Team Lead jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search for Engineering Team Lead roles filtered by employers with verified green card sponsorship history, including companies that have filed PERM applications for similar titles. This removes the guesswork of cold-applying to companies that may not have sponsored before or that lack the infrastructure to run a compliant PERM recruitment process.
Can I change jobs after my employer starts the green card process?
Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is more than 180 days old, portability rules allow you to change employers in the same or similar occupational classification without losing your priority date. Changing jobs before I-140 approval restarts the process, so timing your transition carefully around the 180-day threshold protects the progress already made.