Infrastructure Capacity Planner - MTBNY

Infrastructure Capacity Planner  

The Infrastructure Capacity Planner will ensure that enterprise technology platforms can scale predictably, securely, and cost-effectively to meet the demands of modern banking. This includes supporting real-time payment processing, end-of-day settlement, liquidity management, risk systems, and rapidly growing digital channels.

The role requires strong analytical capabilities, a deep understanding of banking infrastructure, and the ability to balance operational performance with compliance and resiliency requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain capacity models across compute, storage, and network layers, incorporating growth forecasts, seasonal load spikes (e.g., quarter-end reporting, ACH deadlines), and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Monitor utilization and performance trends across mainframe, distributed, and cloud platforms, identifying bottlenecks before they impact mission-critical financial services.
• Collaborate with platform owners and infrastructure engineering teams to define scaling strategies that align with modernization roadmaps (e.g., mainframe offload to Azure or hybrid compute models).
• Integrate capacity planning with business continuity and resiliency strategies, ensuring that planned growth supports RTO/RPO targets and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct “what-if” scenario modeling to account for changes in transaction volume, new service launches (e.g., instant payments), or compliance mandates.
• Partner with finance and procurement to align infrastructure costs with budget forecasts and capital expenditure strategies.
• Ensure capacity plans and scaling strategies are documented and auditable for regulatory review and internal controls.
• Work closely with security and compliance teams to ensure planned infrastructure growth adheres to FFIEC and NYDFS operational resilience guidelines.

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in capacity planning or infrastructure engineering in large financial institutions.
• Proficiency with capacity planning and monitoring tools (e.g., BMC TrueSight, VMware vRealize, Dynatrace, Splunk, Azure Monitor).
• Strong knowledge of banking infrastructure environments — including mainframe, on-prem, and cloud-hybrid topologies.
• Experience forecasting workloads for high-volume transaction systems, including ACH, Fedwire, Zelle, and card payment networks.
• Familiarity with regulatory and resiliency requirements (FFIEC, OCC, NYDFS).
• Excellent quantitative analysis and financial modeling skills.
• Strong communication and documentation capabilities for executive and audit reporting.