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Manages the activities and strategic direction of multiple departments including indirectly managing several unique types of Engineering and/or Architecture teams. Responsible for the budget of multiple cost centers spanning concurrent development streams. Provides long and short-term strategic direction for the Division with collaboration from Engineering and/or Architecture and Technology senior management team. Serves as primary contact to Divisional peers, Management Group, Bank-wide senior management and business partners. Serves as technology leader and industry expert in assigned domains.
Reporting to the Divisional CIO for Wealth, Institutional Services, Core Banking, Operations Technology, and Payments, the Head of Payments Technology & Transformation will lead the strategy, architecture, engineering, and modernization efforts supporting M&T Bank's payments ecosystem. This executive will be responsible for enabling how money moves across the bank, driving transformation across payment rails, platforms, and engineering capabilities while ensuring resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance.
This role provides end-to-end technology leadership across Wire, ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022, RTP, FedNow, Digital Assets, Treasury Services, and emerging payment technologies. The leader will oversee critical modernization initiatives including wire transformation, payments hub implementation, cloud adoption, and AI-enabled engineering practices that accelerate delivery while maintaining operational excellence.
Primary Responsibilities
Build Technology divisional strategy across departments with peers and Technology senior management leaders. Work with senior management outside Technology to build positive client relationships to support delivery of complex Technology projects and activities.
Define and execute the end-to-end payments technology strategy, investment roadmap, target architecture, and build-buy-partner decisions aligned to enterprise goals and client outcomes.
Lead the modernization of platforms supporting Wire, ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022, RTP, FedNow, Digital Assets, and emerging payment capabilities.
Partner with Payments, Treasury Management, Operations, Product, and Business leaders to translate strategic priorities into an integrated technology and delivery roadmap.
Manage multiple Technology departments and responsible for all financial, compliance, human resources, and risk operations within the organization. Monitor industry trends, payment ecosystem developments, and emerging technologies to ensure the Bank remains competitive and future-ready.
Simplify the application portfolio, retire legacy platforms, and advance cloud-enabled, API-driven, platform engineering, and event-driven architectures.
Strengthen engineering excellence through adoption of AI-driven engineering practices, DevSecOps, automation, observability, modern testing frameworks, and continuous delivery capabilities.
Apply AI, data, and intelligent automation solutions to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, risk management, and client experiences.
Manage strategic relationships with technology vendors, payment network providers, and professional organizations to remain current on industry trends and best practices.
Oversee systems development activities of assigned teams, including assignment of staff to various projects and ensuring timely completion within budget.
Ensure payment platforms meet demanding expectations for availability, resiliency, scalability, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, controls, operational risk management, and regulatory compliance.
Oversee the implementation of technology consistent with Division standards and long-range plans, seeking opportunities to leverage capabilities across the enterprise.
Exercise usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management, succession planning, leadership development, and terminations.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders regarding payments strategy, transformation priorities, technology investments, risks, and trade-off decisions.
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.
Promote an environment that supports belonging, innovation, collaboration, accountability, and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by regulators, payment networks, and examiners.
Complete other related duties as assigned.
Scope of Responsibilities
Oversees a large technology organization consisting primarily of engineers, architects, engineering managers, senior managers, and delivery leaders responsible for mission-critical payment platforms and transformation initiatives.
Provides strategic oversight of technology investments, architecture decisions, modernization programs, vendor relationships, and engineering execution supporting enterprise payment capabilities.
Responsible for balancing innovation and transformation with operational resiliency, regulatory compliance, and risk management expectations.
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities
50 to 100+
Education and Experience Required
- A combined minimum of 15 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ engineering and/or architecture experience and 11 years' large technology management / program leadership experience including people management
- Proficiency with pertinent project management, word processing and spreadsheet applications
- Capable of working on multiple projects of a complex nature
- Experience on large system enhancements, conversions, and production problem resolution
- Complete understanding of the system development life cycle
- Excellent problem-solving skills to assist in issue resolution
- Familiar with application development software and hardware platforms
- Understands business(es) supported and its’ terminology
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent decision-making skills
- Prior experience encouraging teamwork and serving as a role model when leading and directing others
- Understands technical, business and operational impacts of a project or problem
- Confidence leading large organizations consisting of 100+ employees across multiple teams, locations, and time zones
- Expertise presenting to executive leadership, management committees, and business stakeholders
- Significant experience leading enterprise technology strategy, engineering organizations, architecture functions, or major transformation programs
- Deep understanding of payments ecosystems including Wire, ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022, RTP, FedNow, settlement processing, transaction banking, and treasury services
- Proven success modernizing mission-critical platforms in highly regulated environments
- Demonstrated expertise with cloud transformation, APIs, distributed systems, platform engineering, and event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity, operational resilience, recovery planning, technology risk, and regulatory requirements
- Ability to connect technology investments to client outcomes, business growth, operational efficiency, and risk reduction
Education and Experience Preferred
- Master's degree
- Minimum of 14 years' technology management or large program leadership experience
- Extensive product, platform, and technology leadership experience within payments, treasury management, transaction banking, or financial services
- Subject matter expertise in modern payment architecture, processing platforms, and integrated enterprise ecosystems
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and agile delivery models
- Hands-on software engineering and/or architecture experience
- Experience leading large platform modernization initiatives, core system transformations, and complex production environments
- Understanding of multiple business functions including Payments, Treasury Management, Operations, Risk, and Compliance
- Proven mentoring and leadership capabilities with a strong track record of developing future technology leaders
- Strong vendor management and technology partnership experience
- Excellent understanding of M&T's technology landscape and application framework
What Success Looks Like
- A clear, funded, and executable strategy for modernizing M&T's payments ecosystem
- Reliable, secure, and resilient payment services supported by strong risk and control management
- Measurable simplification of the payments technology portfolio and advancement of cloud-enabled and event-driven architectures
- Accelerated delivery of capabilities that improve client, operational, and business outcomes
- Strong engineering culture focused on accountability, innovation, quality, and continuous improvement
- Enhanced leadership depth and organizational readiness to support future growth and transformation
Why Join M& T
This is a rare opportunity to lead one of the Bank's most strategically important technology portfolios. The Head of Payments Technology & Transformation will influence enterprise strategy, drive modernization across critical payment systems, and shape the future of how M&T delivers secure, resilient, and innovative payment capabilities to clients, businesses, and communities. The role offers broad exposure across product, operations, risk, architecture, engineering, and executive leadership while creating a lasting impact on the Bank's digital transformation journey.
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $201,200.00 - $335,300.00 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
Overview
Manages the activities and strategic direction of multiple departments including indirectly managing several unique types of Engineering and/or Architecture teams. Responsible for the budget of multiple cost centers spanning concurrent development streams. Provides long and short-term strategic direction for the Division with collaboration from Engineering and/or Architecture and Technology senior management team. Serves as primary contact to Divisional peers, Management Group, Bank-wide senior management and business partners. Serves as technology leader and industry expert in assigned domains.
Reporting to the Divisional CIO for Wealth, Institutional Services, Core Banking, Operations Technology, and Payments, the Head of Payments Technology & Transformation will lead the strategy, architecture, engineering, and modernization efforts supporting M&T Bank's payments ecosystem. This executive will be responsible for enabling how money moves across the bank, driving transformation across payment rails, platforms, and engineering capabilities while ensuring resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance.
This role provides end-to-end technology leadership across Wire, ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022, RTP, FedNow, Digital Assets, Treasury Services, and emerging payment technologies. The leader will oversee critical modernization initiatives including wire transformation, payments hub implementation, cloud adoption, and AI-enabled engineering practices that accelerate delivery while maintaining operational excellence.
Primary Responsibilities
Build Technology divisional strategy across departments with peers and Technology senior management leaders. Work with senior management outside Technology to build positive client relationships to support delivery of complex Technology projects and activities.
Define and execute the end-to-end payments technology strategy, investment roadmap, target architecture, and build-buy-partner decisions aligned to enterprise goals and client outcomes.
Lead the modernization of platforms supporting Wire, ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022, RTP, FedNow, Digital Assets, and emerging payment capabilities.
Partner with Payments, Treasury Management, Operations, Product, and Business leaders to translate strategic priorities into an integrated technology and delivery roadmap.
Manage multiple Technology departments and responsible for all financial, compliance, human resources, and risk operations within the organization. Monitor industry trends, payment ecosystem developments, and emerging technologies to ensure the Bank remains competitive and future-ready.
Simplify the application portfolio, retire legacy platforms, and advance cloud-enabled, API-driven, platform engineering, and event-driven architectures.
Strengthen engineering excellence through adoption of AI-driven engineering practices, DevSecOps, automation, observability, modern testing frameworks, and continuous delivery capabilities.
Apply AI, data, and intelligent automation solutions to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, risk management, and client experiences.
Manage strategic relationships with technology vendors, payment network providers, and professional organizations to remain current on industry trends and best practices.
Oversee systems development activities of assigned teams, including assignment of staff to various projects and ensuring timely completion within budget.
Ensure payment platforms meet demanding expectations for availability, resiliency, scalability, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, controls, operational risk management, and regulatory compliance.
Oversee the implementation of technology consistent with Division standards and long-range plans, seeking opportunities to leverage capabilities across the enterprise.
Exercise usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management, succession planning, leadership development, and terminations.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders regarding payments strategy, transformation priorities, technology investments, risks, and trade-off decisions.
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.
Promote an environment that supports belonging, innovation, collaboration, accountability, and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by regulators, payment networks, and examiners.
Complete other related duties as assigned.
Scope of Responsibilities
Oversees a large technology organization consisting primarily of engineers, architects, engineering managers, senior managers, and delivery leaders responsible for mission-critical payment platforms and transformation initiatives.
Provides strategic oversight of technology investments, architecture decisions, modernization programs, vendor relationships, and engineering execution supporting enterprise payment capabilities.
Responsible for balancing innovation and transformation with operational resiliency, regulatory compliance, and risk management expectations.
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities
50 to 100+
Education and Experience Required
- A combined minimum of 15 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ engineering and/or architecture experience and 11 years' large technology management / program leadership experience including people management
- Proficiency with pertinent project management, word processing and spreadsheet applications
- Capable of working on multiple projects of a complex nature
- Experience on large system enhancements, conversions, and production problem resolution
- Complete understanding of the system development life cycle
- Excellent problem-solving skills to assist in issue resolution
- Familiar with application development software and hardware platforms
- Understands business(es) supported and its’ terminology
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent decision-making skills
- Prior experience encouraging teamwork and serving as a role model when leading and directing others
- Understands technical, business and operational impacts of a project or problem
- Confidence leading large organizations consisting of 100+ employees across multiple teams, locations, and time zones
- Expertise presenting to executive leadership, management committees, and business stakeholders
- Significant experience leading enterprise technology strategy, engineering organizations, architecture functions, or major transformation programs
- Deep understanding of payments ecosystems including Wire, ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022, RTP, FedNow, settlement processing, transaction banking, and treasury services
- Proven success modernizing mission-critical platforms in highly regulated environments
- Demonstrated expertise with cloud transformation, APIs, distributed systems, platform engineering, and event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity, operational resilience, recovery planning, technology risk, and regulatory requirements
- Ability to connect technology investments to client outcomes, business growth, operational efficiency, and risk reduction
Education and Experience Preferred
- Master's degree
- Minimum of 14 years' technology management or large program leadership experience
- Extensive product, platform, and technology leadership experience within payments, treasury management, transaction banking, or financial services
- Subject matter expertise in modern payment architecture, processing platforms, and integrated enterprise ecosystems
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and agile delivery models
- Hands-on software engineering and/or architecture experience
- Experience leading large platform modernization initiatives, core system transformations, and complex production environments
- Understanding of multiple business functions including Payments, Treasury Management, Operations, Risk, and Compliance
- Proven mentoring and leadership capabilities with a strong track record of developing future technology leaders
- Strong vendor management and technology partnership experience
- Excellent understanding of M&T's technology landscape and application framework
What Success Looks Like
- A clear, funded, and executable strategy for modernizing M&T's payments ecosystem
- Reliable, secure, and resilient payment services supported by strong risk and control management
- Measurable simplification of the payments technology portfolio and advancement of cloud-enabled and event-driven architectures
- Accelerated delivery of capabilities that improve client, operational, and business outcomes
- Strong engineering culture focused on accountability, innovation, quality, and continuous improvement
- Enhanced leadership depth and organizational readiness to support future growth and transformation
Why Join M& T
This is a rare opportunity to lead one of the Bank's most strategically important technology portfolios. The Head of Payments Technology & Transformation will influence enterprise strategy, drive modernization across critical payment systems, and shape the future of how M&T delivers secure, resilient, and innovative payment capabilities to clients, businesses, and communities. The role offers broad exposure across product, operations, risk, architecture, engineering, and executive leadership while creating a lasting impact on the Bank's digital transformation journey.
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $201,200.00 - $335,300.00 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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Document your technology leadership credentials early
Gather performance reviews, org charts showing direct reports, and written evidence of budget authority before applications. PERM audits frequently target senior roles, and documentation gaps can stall your case by months.
Target employers with established PERM filing history
Mid-to-large technology companies and enterprises with dedicated HR legal teams process PERM cases far more predictably than early-stage startups, which often lack the infrastructure to sustain a multi-year sponsorship process through I-140 and adjustment of status.
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Use Migrate Mate to filter Head of Technology openings by employers with active EB-2 and EB-3 filing history. This lets you skip the manual research phase and focus outreach on companies already running PERM processes for comparable roles.
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Before accepting an offer, look up the OFLC Wage Search to confirm the offered compensation meets the DOL prevailing wage for your job zone and location. A wage shortfall discovered after PERM filing creates costly amendments or restarts.
Clarify the EB classification with your prospective employer
Head of Technology roles can qualify under EB-2 if the employer requires an advanced degree, or EB-3 if a bachelor's degree suffices. Confirm with the sponsoring employer which category they intend to file under before signing an offer, since this affects your priority date and wait time.
Request concurrent I-140 and I-485 filing where eligible
If your priority date is current when the PERM certifies, ask your employer's immigration counsel to file the I-140 and I-485 simultaneously. Concurrent filing lets you change roles more freely under AC21 portability while your green card application is pending.
Green Card Head Of Technology: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Head of Technology role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Head of Technology positions qualify for EB-2 when the employer's minimum requirements include a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus substantial progressive experience in a technical field. If the role requires only a bachelor's degree, EB-3 is the more common filing category. The distinction matters because EB-2 and EB-3 priority date backlogs differ significantly by country of birth, affecting how long you wait before you can file for adjustment of status.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this type of role?
H-1B visa sponsorship is temporary, capped at 65,000 slots annually, and subject to lottery selection. PERM-based green card sponsorship has no annual cap at the petition level and results in permanent residency rather than a renewable work visa. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes several months, followed by I-140 adjudication and potentially years on a priority date waitlist depending on your country of birth, particularly for applicants born in India or China.
What does the PERM labor certification process require from a sponsoring employer?
The employer must conduct a good-faith recruitment campaign demonstrating no qualified U.S. workers are available for the role at the offered wage. For a Head of Technology position, PERM requires a detailed job description tied to specific minimum requirements, prevailing wage compliance verified through DOL, and documented recruitment steps including job postings. USCIS then adjudicates the I-140 immigrant petition once DOL certifies the PERM application.
How can I find Head of Technology jobs where employers are already open to green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter roles by visa and green card sponsorship willingness, focusing your applications on employers with a documented history of EB-2 and EB-3 filings. This is more reliable than asking during a screening call, since many recruiters don't know their company's PERM history until you reach the offer stage.
Can I switch employers after my green card process starts?
Yes, under AC21 portability rules you can change to a same or similar occupation after your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more, without restarting the green card process. Head of Technology roles generally fall within a broad enough SOC code that a lateral move to a comparable senior technology leadership position at a new employer preserves your priority date and pending adjustment of status application.