Senior Technical Lead (163829)

Key Responsibilities

• Technology Focus — IBM MQ
• Design, configure and support IBM MQ objects, clusters and messaging interfaces across environments.
• Ensure reliable, secure and performant message delivery with appropriate resiliency and recovery design.
• Troubleshoot integration incidents, tune throughput and maintain messaging standards and documentation.
• Required Technical Competencies
• Core Skills
• IBM MQ administration and development, queue managers, channels, clustering, triggering and message flows.
• Design & Architecture
• Messaging architecture, guaranteed delivery, transactionality, error/backout handling and integration patterns.
• Data & Integration
• Message formats, transformation, sequencing, poison-message handling and interface contracts.
• Platform & DevOps
• MQ on distributed and/or z/OS, high availability, security (TLS, channel auth), monitoring and capacity.
• Quality & Operations
• Interface testing, failover and recovery validation, performance tuning, incident diagnosis and RCA.
• Experience & Qualifications
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong IBM MQ expertise.
• Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory.
• Leadership & Behavioural
• Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes.
• Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions.
• Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Coaching mindset and collaborative working style.
• Location-Specific Expectations
• Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones.
• Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads.
• Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness reviews.
• Key Deliverables & Success Measures
• Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads.
• High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines.
• Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover.
• Improved team capability, engineering consistency and reusable assets.
• Timely escalation and resolution of technical risks and blockers.