IBM MQ System Engineer

Raymond James•Saint Petersburg, FL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Raymond James is committed to the latest in technology to provide the very best service and solutions for our clients and financial advisors. As a Systems and Data Engineer at Raymond James, we offer you the opportunity to grow technically and professionally. We are searching for someone who is high-energy, confident, can meet customer needs, and can help us move into the next generation of data message\streaming integration. If that sounds like you, we would you like to apply your skills and creativity to deliver quality solutions and support for our customers, and engage with a great team of specialists while learning new tools and platforms. Do you have the inventiveness to automate solutions, simplify support, and stabilize critical applications that integrate with data messaging platforms using IBM MQ, ACE, BAW, ODM and Kafka and in turn enhance continuous improvement and quality? If the answer is yes, our desire is to provide you the freedom to collaborate with architecture, DevOps engineering, development and application support teams to provide messaging solutions and develop strategies to automate delivery through the development pipeline. In addition, you will be introduced to several platforms and tools running on Windows, Linux, and DevOps technologies including containers, micro services, Kubernetes, Chef, and Jenkins.

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.
High School (HS) (Required)

Nice To Haves

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.
Network and security concepts and technologies
Understanding of TCP/IP networking standards, protocols, etc
Project/Quality Management Practices/Change control
MQ Certification (highly preferred)
Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science
Bachelor’s: Computer Engineering
Bachelor’s: Computer Systems Analysis

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.