Senior IBM MDM & Kafka Integration Lead

The Stafford Gray Group; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stafford Gray Group seeks a senior developer to own and support a mission-critical master person index platform for a public-sector health and human services client. You’ll lead the technical direction, maintain an IBM InfoSphere MDM Standard Edition implementation, and coordinate with analysts and teams integrating with the platform.

The role covers deploying and tuning IBM MDM, Kafka-based data flows, WildFly applications, and Linux/OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development supporting enterprise-scale systems.
• Hands-on experience with IBM InfoSphere MDM v14.x Standard Edition (Virtual MDM).
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance an IBM MDM Standard Edition implementation.
• Develop and support Kafka producers, consumers, and topics; troubleshoot flows with Kafka, WildFly, and MDM.
• Deploy, configure, and support WildFly applications in Linux, cloud, and OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
• Write and optimize SQL in Oracle and SQL Server, collaborating with DBAs.
• Build Bash and PowerShell automation; maintain CRON-scheduled batch jobs.
• Create and deploy certificates on Windows and Linux; coordinate with server and network teams.
• Own the full SDLC: requirements, specs, test plans, UAT support, changes, and docs.
• Monitor production/non-production environments; resolve tickets; produce monthly platform reports.

Skills

Java/J2EE

InfoSphere MDM

SQL

Linux/Unix

REST/SOAP

Certificate management

Tools

Kafka

WildFly

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Oracle

SQL Server

PowerShell

Bash

Azure DevOps

ELK

Flowable

Zookeeper

Job description

Stafford Gray Group seeks a senior developer to own and support a mission-critical master person index platform for a public-sector health and human services client. You’ll lead the technical direction, maintain an IBM InfoSphere MDM Standard Edition implementation, and coordinate with analysts and teams integrating with the platform.

The role covers deploying and tuning IBM MDM, Kafka-based data flows, WildFly applications, and Linux/OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.