Enterprise Middleware Platform Lead

Salary: £104,000 - 130,000 per year

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in Product or Service Management for enterprise middleware
• Deep expertise in IBM MQ
• Working knowledge of IBM ACE, ITX, and Instana/ITM
• Proven track record in managing platform KPIs/SLOs, capacity planning, enterprise HA/DR, and large-scale upgrade and standardization programs
• Strong ability to collaborate across engineering, cyber security, and business units
• Experience managing vendor licensing and commercial relationships
• Experience managing multi-platform enterprise estates across Linux, Windows, and Mainframe environments is desirable
• Experience in Financial Services or other highly audited industries is desirable

Responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of the end-to-end product strategy, multi-quarter roadmap, and operational excellence for critical enterprise messaging and integration platforms
• Bridge engineering, architecture, and business teams to drive platform standardization, lifecycle management, and high-availability outcomes across a global financial infrastructure
• Define and maintain multi-quarter product roadmaps covering security, automation, platform currency, and customer onboarding for IBM MQ, ACE, ITX, and Instana platforms
• Lead platform lifecycle initiatives, including upgrades, deprecation strategies, and technical debt management
• Enforce reference architectures and security controls, including mTLS and certificate management
• Own service health outcomes by monitoring SLIs, SLOs, and MTTR
• Lead major incident reviews and ensure rigorous Disaster Recovery and High Availability testing
• Ensure platforms meet strict audit, risk, and regulatory standards through vulnerability remediation, access controls, and active risk finding management

Technologies:

• IBM
• Instana
• Linux
• Security
• Windows

More:

The opportunity is focused on critical enterprise messaging and integration platforms within a global financial infrastructure. We are seeking someone to drive platform standardization, lifecycle management, reliability, performance, risk, and compliance across IBM MQ, ACE, ITX, and Instana platforms. This is an urgent vacancy, and the hiring manager is shortlisting immediately.

last updated 37 week of 2026