Application Integration Engineer (IBM MQ)

Employment type
Contract
Industry
Banking
Sector
IT
Location
Zurich
Remote?
No
Home office?
40%
Tasks and responsibilities:
  • Supporting the DevOps team in the development, implementation, and operation of our client's financial messaging infrastructure as an Application Integration Engineer
  • Your field of activity covers the products IBM MQ / IBM MQ MFT, IBM Message Broker (IIB/ACE) and Nastel Autopilot/Navigator & X-Ray
  • Your main responsibilities and activities would be:
  • Ensuring stable platform operation, conducting Lifecycles, and writing and executing test concepts
  • Collaborate with external/internal clients for the onboarding process
  • Analysis of new customer-specific requirements and implementation of integration solutions
  • Conception and further development of the platforms regarding automation (continuous delivery) and functional extensions
  • Connection and integration of services using various interfaces such as MQ, SOAP, REST, JSON, SQL
  • Configuration and optimization of monitoring and metrics
  • Performing root cause analysis in case of production issues, as well as disaster recovery testing
  • Willingness to participate in the team's rotating 7x24h on-call service
Must-have criteria:
  • Degree in computer science or systems engineering from a university or technical college with correspondingly knowledge
  • More than 5 years' practical experience of financial messaging and deep understanding of the newest IBM MQ products and their functionalities
  • Sound knowledge of the relevant standards in the banking environment such as SWIFT MT/MX, ISO20020 etc.
  • Knowledge of best practice for inter- application communication with IBM MQ, Oracle, SSH, SSL, TLS
  • Knowledge of scripting languages (SQL, Bash/Shell, Perl, Java) and MQ commands
  • Knowledge of Linux and Oracle
Nice-to-have criteria:
  • German (or willingness to learn the language)
  • IBM Certified System Administrator - MQ V9.1 (or to complete upon starting)
  • IBM Certified Solution Developer - App Connect Enterprise V11 (nice to have)
  • ITIL knowledge would be an advantage
Language requirements:
  • English (C1+)