Solutions Architect

At the core of our wealth management solutions, we require a skilled professional to spearhead the planning, installation, configuration, and maintenance of our global messaging infrastructure. This pivotal role demands extensive knowledge of IBM products, particularly IBM App Connect Enterprise on LINUX, to ensure seamless integration and uptime.

• The successful candidate will work closely with business and application development teams to identify and resolve complex issues related to messaging in development, testing, or demonstration environments.
• They will be responsible for error-free deployment on production environments and guarantee the performance, availability, and security of the messaging infrastructure.
• This role involves day-to-day operational tasks, participating in 2nd-level support at the Linux operating system level, and taking part in an on-call duty rotation.

• The Integration Specialist will provide support to various customers with integration solutions based on message flows for service consumers and providers, ensuring that messages are routed, transformed, and enriched during processing.
• Proven expertise in delivering and maintaining integration solutions using IBM ACE is essential, along with comprehensive knowledge of messaging on distributed systems.

• The IBM MQ Administrator will be responsible for installing and administering IBM MQ Server, performing numerous messaging-related tasks across one or more engineering teams.
• This includes designing, installing, and maintaining queue managers and queues, adhering to backup/recovery design and configuration-management practices.
• A proven track record of successfully managing and maintaining queue managers and queues on a hub-and-spoke architecture, securing messaging, maintaining pub/sub messaging, and expert knowledge of asynchronous service-to-service communication are required.

• The successful candidate must demonstrate appropriate ethical behavior within their area of responsibility, adhering to standards on honesty, integrity, due care, and diligence.
• They will ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations while upholding fair dealing, treating customers fairly, and managing conflicts of interest.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in architecting, designing, and implementing integration solutions by building message flows using IBM Middleware products.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in distributed IBM MQ infrastructure administration, defining and modifying MQ configurations, adhering to authentication and authorization design using IBM best practices.
• A thorough understanding of resilient and reliable EAI & SOA solutions on IBM Middleware, as well as strong knowledge of different integration patterns.
• Proficiency in server build installation and deployment, maintenance, migration, and performing upgrades on existing MQ infrastructure, with a strong plus in Ansible.
• Experience with messaging tools such as MQ Edit, RFH2Util, Q/Q-Load, and system monitoring tools.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and programming skills using ESQL, XML, XSLT, JSON, Web Services, Java, PL/SQL in Unix and Windows environments.
• Well-versed in implementing SSL security, certificate management, monitoring of IBM MQ products, backup recovery, high availability, failover methods, disaster recovery, performance monitoring, and security hardening of IBM MQ and best practices.
• Good knowledge of software development methodologies, tools, standards, and procedures for high-quality software development.
• General knowledge of scripting (Perl, Shell, Python, etc).
• Strong analytical and good interpersonal skills.
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication.
• Able to work on-duty support shifts for onsite support.

• Knowledge of Enterprise Integration Architecture standards.
• Familiarity with the complexities of working with hybrid teams.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and with classical/agile methodology.
• Exceptional intrapersonal and verbal/written communication skills.

• Individually capable, able to work successfully as a team player in a team-oriented environment.
• Experienced working in a multi-cultural environment.
• Ability to work under pressure and extended time to achieve common goals.
• Able to work on-duty support shifts for onsite support.