Global Middleware Platform Lead: Strategy & Reliability

Randstad Digital; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital seeks a senior Product Manager to own the end-to-end strategy for enterprise messaging platforms, bridging engineering, architecture, and business teams to drive standardization and high-availability outcomes.

You will lead multi-quarter roadmaps, lifecycle governance, and security controls, ensuring regulatory compliance and robust DR/HA testing across global infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end product strategy for enterprise middleware platforms.
• Ability to drive multi-quarter roadmaps and platform standardization.
• Strong governance, security controls, and regulatory awareness.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for critical platforms.
• Lead lifecycle initiatives, upgrades, deprecation, and reference architectures.
• Collaborate across engineering, cybersecurity, and business units to ensure HA/DR readiness.

Skills

Product management

Enterprise middleware

Stakeholder leadership

Vendor management

Tools

IBM MQ

IBM ACE

ITX

Instana/ITM

Job description

Randstad Digital seeks a senior Product Manager to own the end-to-end strategy for enterprise messaging platforms, bridging engineering, architecture, and business teams to drive standardization and high-availability outcomes.

You will lead multi-quarter roadmaps, lifecycle governance, and security controls, ensuring regulatory compliance and robust DR/HA testing across global infrastructure.