IBM MQ System Engineer

Raymond James is committed to leveraging technology to provide exceptional service and solutions for clients and financial advisors. They are seeking an IBM MQ System Engineer to design, implement, and support scalable integration solutions while collaborating with various teams to enhance messaging platforms and automate processes.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and lead direction in integration platform architecture that provides stability, resilience, efficiency, security, and flexibility employing best practices for enterprise applications
• Work with development and architecture teams to design, implement, and support scalable, reliable integration solutions
• Acts as product owner and liaison for IBM integration products and creates standards and guidance in collaboration with IBM architecture and administration teams to ensure developers use of IBM integrations products follows standards and best practices that maximize product performance and stability
• Support Life Cycle Management by providing timely product roadmaps to keep platforms up date, support the emerging development architecture and retire aging systems
• Improve business continuity and disaster recovery design, planning, and documentation including fault tolerance
• Simplify and/or automate processes to allow offshore support teams to successfully handle more support and change requests
• Ensures adherence to Service Level Agreements regarding platform availability and reliability
• Effectively manages communication between architecture, development, quality testing, administrators, and IT management roadmaps, current issues, open vendor tickets, upcoming maintenance, and platform changes
• Creates and oversees documentation of system run books, problem resolution steps, and tenant application information
• The role will provide support for IBM integration products, including after-hours support and on-call. Well-engineered data integration solutions, simple and well-documented processes, and automation will minimize after-hours and on-call engagement

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in assigned area or combination or education, experience and training
• Engineering experience in design, build, configuration, delivery and automation of Data Integration platforms including but not limited to:
• MQ Integration in one or more: IBM MQ V9.3 and later
• ACE Integration: IBM ACE 12 or later
• Implementation of enterprise monitoring to ensure required availability
• Automation in one or more: Shell scripting, PowerShell, Python, Ansible Playbooks
• Experience running messaging platforms on Linux using RDQM
• Bachelor's: Computer and Information Science, Bachelor's: Computer Engineering, Bachelor's: Computer Systems Analysis, High School (HS) (Required)
• General Experience - 6 to 10 years
• Mentoring development teams on adopting IBM and Industry best practices related to MQ
• Integrating MQ with IBM Business Process Manager (BPM/BAW)
• Implementation and maintenance of CCDT file
• Data/Event Streaming: Kafka
• Experience with IBM ACE, WAS, BPW/BAW and ODM
• Web platforms: IIS, Apache, Jboss, Nginx
• Monitoring: Datadog, DynaTrace, Splunk
• Infrastructure As Code: Chef, Puppet, Ansible
• Experience with CI tools: Jenkins, TFS, Git
• Any cloud experience: AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure
• Service Delivery Workflow Automation: ServiceNow
• Network and security concepts and technologies
• Using concepts, principles and practices of systems engineering
• Understanding of Java and .NET code design related to messaging
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking standards, protocols, etc
• Project/Quality Management
• Practices/Change control
• MQ Certification (highly preferred)