Senior Middleware Manager

McGregor Boyall

UAE

Ref: NP388-94

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

An growing bank based in the Middle East is looking for a Middleware Manager. The role purpose is to ensure that all the incidences of the middleware platform in the organization are performing as expected. As the custodian of middleware, the role is expected to support other teams in IT as they plan the enhancements to the strategy of the organization. The role is accountable for ensuring that the middleware platform is on supported versions, having an development roadmap, and planning the necessary projects to ensure that the middleware platforms remain supported. The role is accountable to ensure the high availability of the middleware, disaster recovery for middleware, and resilience of all the middleware platforms are aligned to the needs of the group and are regularly tested for compliance to these needs. The role is responsible for supporting the non-production instances (such as development, testing, etc) of all middleware platforms.

The Lead Middleware role serves as the principal technical expert within the Application Support team for all the middleware platforms of the Bank.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, age, sexuality, gender identification, or physical ability.

Requirements

* 8+ yrs of experience with at least 5 yrs of experience with middleware
* Strong understanding of J2EE server technologies
* Previous experience as Technical / Support Lead for a medium to large size support team
* Experience working with Developers, Database Administrators and vendors, partners and contractors in the implementation of new applications or message flows
* Experience with performance tuning
* Experience with management of supporting complex and high volume message flows within a banking landscape
* Experience with ESBs like Mule and IBM Websphere
* Experience with Jboss, Apache Tomcat and Oracle Fusion
* Experience with MQ
* Working Knowledge of relational databases like Oracle and SQL Server
* Experience with an offshore model
* Working knowledge of underlying infrastructure supporting the middleware platforms, like Unix, databases, etc
* Experience working on large and medium scale software project

About the Company

Established in 1987, McGregor Boyall is a global recruitment consultancy providing permanent and contract / interim professionals across a wide variety of disciplines including Technology, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Marketing and HR & Talent Management. Since our inception, we have built an unrivalled reputation for helping organisations recruit the very best talent to ensure that they realise their business and operational objectives.

Headquartered in the city of London, and with further offices throughout the UK (Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow) as well as globally in Dubai and Singapore, we are able to offer recruitment solutions throughout the UK & Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.

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