IBM Middleware Integration Engineer

Outstanding contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer –IBM Middleware Integration in Charlotte, NC, Irving, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Des Moines, IA, Minneapolis, MN or Iselin, NJ (hybrid).

Our client is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration to join the Enterprise Middleware Integration team. This team enables the development of critical products that support the Technology organization’s transformation initiatives. The role is responsible for building, engineering, and evangelizing Middleware, Streaming, and Messaging products across the enterprise.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

schedule: EITHER Sunday - Thursday (Fri and Sat off) OR Tuesday - Saturday (Sun and Mon off)

Required Skills & Experience

• 4 years of hands-on, large-scale experience with Integration Middleware, including:
• IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ)
• IBM Message Broker / ACE / IIB
• Kafka
• Solace

What You Will Be Doing

• implement complex infrastructure and middleware upgrades
• Analyze business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements
• Design, code, test, debug, and document solutions using Agile development practices
• Lead and contribute to high-level technical initiatives spanning both technology and business
• Design, develop, test, and document complex infrastructure systems and solutions
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational policies, and procedures
• Utilize monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Splunk) to support application and operations teams
• Contribute to testing across business, application, and infrastructure layers
• Direct daily risk and control processes with a focus on compliance, policies, and procedures
• Develop long-term remediation strategies to resolve recurring issues
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and cross-functional teams to resolve issues and achieve objectives
• Handle outage calls, triage issues efficiently, and drive resolution