Messaging Architect

Northern Trust Enterprise Middleware Service team is looking for a lead messaging system engineer to help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot the banks rapidly expanding IBM MQ and Solace messaging infrastructure. You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage all environments (Development, Testing and Production) of Middleware Messaging platforms like RDQM, Solace IBM MQ and Kafka
• Install, configure and provide support for functional and performance testing of additional features of modern messaging system.
• Work with application developers in POCs to design solutions with novel and advanced product features
• Lead technical team members with Middleware messaging deployments based on requirements from application development teams.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability by monitoring and testing application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Design and maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Design of expansion of current cluster and integration of existing cluster with cloud
• Architect the roadmap for messaging systems in the bank
• Provide 3rd level support and act as a technical leader of offshore support team
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution