Enterprise Middleware Platform Lead-Strategy & Reliability

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

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.