IBM MQ / IBM i (iSeries) Engineer – Banking Domain

IBM MQ / IBM i (iSeries) Engineer – Banking Domain

Industry: Banking / Financial Services
Employment Type: Contract
Location:  Remote

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced IBM MQ / IBM i (iSeries) Engineer with strong experience in the Banking and Financial Services domain. The candidate will be responsible for supporting IBM MQ messaging infrastructure and/or IBM i environments used for critical banking applications and transactions.

The ideal candidate should have experience working with banking applications, payment processing, transaction systems, batch processing, IBM MQ, AS400/iSeries, DB2, RPG, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and support IBM MQ environments supporting banking applications.
• Manage Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Transmission Queues, and Dead Letter Queues.
• Troubleshoot MQ message failures, connectivity issues, delays, and transaction processing issues.
• Support IBM i / AS400 / iSeries production environments.
• Monitor and troubleshoot banking applications and batch jobs.
• Work with RPG/RPGLE, CL/CLLE, and DB2 for i as required.
• Support banking transaction processing and integration between applications.
• Troubleshoot issues related to payment processing, deposits, withdrawals, account transactions, and financial interfaces.
• Support real-time and batch banking transactions.
• Analyze application logs, MQ messages, system jobs, and database issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis and provide permanent resolutions.
• Coordinate with application, database, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Support production incidents, problem management, and change management.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call/production support as required.
• Maintain system documentation and operational procedures.

Required Skills

• Hands on experience with IBM MQ and/or IBM i (AS400/iSeries).
• Strong experience in Banking / Financial Services domain.
• Experience with banking transaction processing systems.
• Hands-on experience with IBM MQ administration/support.
• Experience with IBM i / AS400 / iSeries environments.
• Knowledge of DB2 for i.
• Experience with RPG/RPGLE and CL/CLLE is preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting and production support experience.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP and application-to-application connectivity.
• Experience working with high-volume, business-critical transactions.