Enterprise Middleware Platform Lead

Randstad Technologies Recruitment; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Technologies Recruitment is seeking an experienced product leader to own the end-to-end strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for enterprise messaging and integration platforms. You will bridge engineering, architecture, and business teams to drive platform standardization and lifecycle management across a global financial infrastructure.

The role focuses on reliability, security, and governance while coordinating with cyber security and vendor partners to manage licensing and commitments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product/service management for enterprise middleware.
• Deep expertise in IBM MQ and working knowledge of IBM ACE, ITX, Instana/ITM.
• Experience managing platform KPIs/SLOs, capacity planning, and HA/DR programs.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, cyber security, and business units.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain multi-quarter roadmaps for 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, enforcing reference architectures and security controls.
• Own service health outcomes by monitoring SLIs, SLOs, MTTR, and leading incident reviews, with rigorous DR and HA testing.
• Ensure platforms meet audit, risk, and regulatory standards through vulnerability remediation and access controls.

Skills

Product management

Roadmapping

Stakeholder management

Vendor leadership

Tools

IBM MQ

IBM ACE

ITX

Instana/ITM

Job description

The Opportunity: In this role, you will take full ownership of the end-to-end product strategy, multi-quarter roadmap, and operational excellence for critical enterprise messaging and integration platforms. You will bridge engineering, architecture, and business teams to drive platform standardization, lifecycle management, and high-availability outcomes across a global financial infrastructure.

Your Impact

• Strategy & Roadmap: Define and maintain multi-quarter product roadmaps covering security, automation, platform currency, and customer onboarding for IBM MQ, ACE, ITX, and Instana platforms.
• Lifecycle & Governance: Lead platform lifecycle initiatives-including upgrades, deprecation strategies, and technical debt management-while enforcing reference architectures and security controls (mTLS, certificate management).
• Reliability & Performance: Own service health outcomes by monitoring SLIs, SLOs, and MTTR, leading major incident reviews, and ensuring rigorous Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) testing.
• Risk & Compliance: Ensure platforms meet strict audit, risk, and regulatory standards through vulnerability remediation, access controls, and active risk finding management.

Your Experience

• Platform Expertise: Extensive experience in Product or Service Management for enterprise middleware, with deep expertise in IBM MQ and strong working knowledge of IBM ACE, ITX, and Instana/ITM.
• Lifecycle & Reliability Management: Proven track record in managing platform KPIs/SLOs, capacity planning, enterprise HA/DR, and large-scale upgrade and standardization programs.
• Stakeholder & Vendor Leadership: Strong ability to collaborate across engineering, cyber security, and business units, alongside experience managing vendor licensing and commercial relationships.
• Regulated Environments (Desirable): Experience managing multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mainframe) enterprise estates within Financial Services or highly audited industries.

This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately.