Senior Middleware Messaging Engineer

CSC • Wilmington, NC

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Middleware Messaging Engineer with deep expertise in event-driven Architecture and middleware messaging technologies. The ideal candidate will lead the Architecture, design, and implementation of complex middleware and streaming-based integration solutions across the enterprise, including multi-datacenter, geo-distributed deployments that handle high-volume traffic with consistently high performance and resiliency.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on expertise in event-driven Architecture (EDA) and middleware messaging integration design patterns
• Proven experience with middleware messaging technologies including Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, and/or similar platforms
• Solid experience with streaming-based integrations (e.g., Kafka Streams, Stream Native, Red Panda or equivalent)
• Experienced in cloud-native messaging services (AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, GCP Pub/Sub) and multi-region cloud deployments
• Experienced in containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker) for messaging platforms across multi-cluster, multi-region setups
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and deploying messaging platforms across multiple data centers and geographic regions
• Expertise in geo-replication, cross-datacenter mirroring, and regional routing strategies for messaging workloads
• Proven ability to Engineer solutions that sustain high message volumes with predictable, low-latency performance
• Demonstrated ability to design and deploy solutions with high availability (HA), fault tolerance, and redundancy
• Experience deploying and managing components in clustered environments
• Proficiency in designing for high-volume, low-latency, and resilient messaging Architectures
• 10-12 years of industry experience, with middleware messaging integration roles

Nice To Haves

• Implements and manage solutions across all environments using automation and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Hands-on experience integrating API Management platforms with middleware messaging systems
• Experience with observability platforms such as Elastic for monitoring and insights

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Architecture and design of middleware messaging and streaming-based integration solutions
• Design and deploy messaging infrastructure across multiple geographic locations and data centers, ensuring low latency, data locality, and regional failover
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement the right messaging/streaming technologies based on business and technical requirements
• Drive EDA (Event-Driven Architecture) best practices across integration initiatives
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable, resilient, geo-distributed integration designs
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and performance of messaging platforms under high-volume traffic conditions
• Design active-active and active-passive multi-datacenter topologies with automated failover and disaster recovery capabilities
• Define and enforce standards for deployment, monitoring, and operations of messaging infrastructure across all regions via automation
• Mentor and guide junior engineers on integration patterns, geo-distribution strategies, and best practices

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed