The Wilmington Trust Institutional Services (IS) division is experiencing rapid business growth and has initiated a strategic digital transformation program. In alignment with the business strategy, the engineering team is tasked with modernizing the “Mergers & Acquisitions” platform. Full stack engineering team lead will coach and guide the team to create technical designs and develop new or existing applications to solve basic to complex problems and enhancements. This role serves as a principal systems designer for major application modifications using technical skills and available technologies in the evaluation of client requirements.  

Engineering team leads are accountable for the entire lifecycle of both custom and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) business applications, including design, build, and operations. This is a hands-on execution role accountable for application build and maintenance, while ensuring compliance with corporate and regulatory policies, and engineering well-designed, secure, scalable, reliable, and resilient technology solutions.  

Development Execution: Lead a team of 5-8 engineers and contribute to technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Implement new technologies and follow development standards by properly using the existing bank dev platforms (i.e. Gitlab) and/or extending for IS development. Review key technical development execution stats and implement continuous improvements. Complete and oversee basic to complex systems analysis, design and development. Play a key role as an engineering lead on complex projects. Maintain an excellent functional understanding of the supported applications. 

System Reliability: Ensure reliable technology solutions through effective systems design, development, release management, change control, and incident problem-solving. Maintain efficient operation and effectiveness of supported applications. 

Technical Architecture and Design: Author systems architecture documentation, technical specifications, and technical tasks aligned to user stories, with traceability to concrete technical components. Create developer-friendly documentation that is founded in architecture components, well defined, and easily traced from high to low level detail. Maintain accurate systems data as part of enterprise-wide technology tracking tools. Evaluate and understand complex interrelationships and effects among programs, interfacing applications and platforms. Provide highly analytical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies to assist business units in meeting strategic objectives. Create custom code and maintain knowledge of DevOps utilities and test harnesses, perform code reviews, and oversee code merge and elevation. 

Team Management: As a people manager, define objectives for team members, provide coaching and performance feedback. Develop a culture of execution excellence by proactively managing talent and performance.  

Team Collaboration: Effective formal and informal communication with stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and technology teams. Direct and monitor team members and coordinate development tasks on small to large scope projects.  This role requires a significant collaboration with multiple team members and stakeholders. 

Compliance: Adhere to internal control standards and address audit points and regulatory issues. Understand M&T Tech’s standards for technology risk management, cybersecurity, IT Asset management, Resiliency & Recovery and ensure compliance. Escalate risk-related concerns to management as needed. 

Innovation: Recommend new technologies, policies, or processes. Evaluate vendor software. 

Degree: 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 

Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience with full stack software engineering, object-oriented languages (C#, .NET), front-end JavaScript/HTML frameworks (preferably Angular), data access technologies (preferably Entity Framework and SQL), software packaging tools (preferably NuGet and NPM), source code management tools (preferably Gitlab). Some experience with SIEM tools (preferably Splunk) and log management platforms (preferably ELK).  Advanced knowledge and focus of the entire system to work on projects outside of normal business-as-usual (BAU). Has operated in an Agile environment (preferably SAFe), collaborates effectively within iterative development cycles and scaled agile practices. 

DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, DevOps toolsets (Git, GitLab, Artifactory, NuGet, NPM, NodeJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, MS Build, or SonarQube), some scripting experience (YAML, PowerShell, Linux/Bash, or Perl). 

Financial Technology Systems: Experience working in Banks in a technology role supporting investment banking, client management, core banking, payments, financial reporting, loan or debt management functions. 

Vendor Management:  Some experience with COTS business application vendors and IT vendors 

Soft Skills: Technical leadership, problem-solving, communication, time-management, cross-functional team coordination, and technical mentorship.  

CIAM Experience: Experience implementing Customer Identity and Access Management systems, including identity management and identity verification, account verification using third party services in US and Europe. 

Financial Industry Experience: Institutional Financial Products (Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Trust Accounts, Investment Funds, Bonds, Structured Finance, etc.)