Architect, design, and maintain enterprise-grade IBM MQ solutions supporting mission-critical distributed systems.
Act as the technical lead for MQ platforms, providing guidance, standards, and best practices to application and platform teams.
Install, configure, upgrade, and patch IBM MQ across multiple environments, including on-premises and cloud deployments.
Design and implement high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning strategies for MQ queue managers.
Collaborate with application teams to design reliable messaging patterns, including request/reply, pub/sub, and event-driven architectures.
Develop and enforce MQ security standards, covering TLS, certificates, authentication, authorization, and queue-level access controls.
Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for MQ infrastructure to enable proactive detection and resolution of issues.
Lead incident response and root cause analysis for MQ-related production issues, driving permanent corrective actions.
Automate MQ operational tasks using scripting and configuration management tools to improve reliability and efficiency.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership through design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
Stay current with the IBM MQ roadmap, messaging industry trends, and emerging technologies, recommending improvements as appropriate.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least seven years of experience working with enterprise messaging platforms, with strong hands-on expertise in IBM MQ.
Proven experience designing and supporting MQ in high-volume, high-availability production environments.
In-depth understanding of messaging concepts such as queuing, pub/sub, transactions, persistence, and message ordering.
Experience collaborating with application development teams to integrate messaging solutions.
Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose complex, cross-system issues.
Prior experience in a technical lead or senior engineering role, influencing architecture and engineering standards.

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
deferred compensation for eligible roles
fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
eligibility for tuition reimbursement

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

IBM MQhigh availabilitydisaster recoveryperformance tuningmessaging patternsTLSscriptingconfiguration managementmonitoringroot cause analysis

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationtroubleshootingguidanceknowledge sharingstandards enforcementincident responsecommunicationproblem-solving