Senior Messaging Engineer MQ

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Required Skills:

• 9+ years experience architecting, designing and administration of IBM MQ including Pub/Sub. Experience with IBM MQ Advanced RDQM required.
• Should have very strong troubleshooting unexpected IBM MQ and Solace problems
• Experience of architecting, designing and administration of Solace
• Experience of scripting for deployment and configuration
• Experience with DevOps and automation required
• Must have Ansible automation skills required
• Prior Java programming skill is a plus
• Knowledge ofKafka messaging systemis a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Northern Trust Enterprise Middleware Service team is looking for a lead messaging system engineer to help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot the bank’s rapidly expanding IBM MQ and Solace messaging infrastructure.
• Manage all environments (Development, Testing and Production) of IBM MQ/solace
• 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
• 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

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.