SOA Systems Engineer (MQ/DP/IIB)

The SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Infrastructure team provides support for our IBM products/appliances (i.e. DataPower, MQ, IIB) that are widely used in the banking and financial services industry to provide services such as authentication, authorization, API management, message translation, and message queueing. These services together represent the platform upon which web services can quickly and easily be developed and accessed/consumed both by internal applications or external clients. The team ensures this platform is performing at peak capacity to avoid any business disruption.

As a SOA Systems Engineer, you will be part of a team involved in making sure these services are functioning properly through successful performance and coordination of activities involving triage / troubleshooting, patching, and software implementations / upgrades just to name a few. This is a subset of the overall responsibilities which will include multiple initiatives assigned by IT leadership.

This role is hybrid (Mon through Thu on-site / Fri remote) for candidates in the Kansas City metropolitan area and open to qualified remote candidates outside of the Kansas City area. However, the remote location must be within the US.

How you will spend your time:

• Work closely with all levels of IT to coordinate the service support and delivery of middleware technologies with multiple teams from application development to infrastructure.
• Coordinate, escalate, resolve, and close issues from service requests to change management assigned to the SOA Infrastructure team.
• Assist and champion triage and troubleshooting of production and non-production middleware/SOA technologies.
• Perform patching, software implementation, and upgrades.

We are excited to talk if you have:

• At least 3 years of experience in a SOA infrastructure environment working with IBM technologies (i.e. IIB, MQ, DataPower).
• Experience in production support maintaining middleware systems from software implementation / upgrades to troubleshooting.
• Exposure to architectural design specifically layout / configuration of different components to provide a robust, reliable and efficient platform to support a required volume of banking transactions.

Bonus Points if you have:

• Banking or financial services industry experience.

Applicants must have legal authority to work in the United States. Work Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Deadline to Apply: June 30, 2026

Compensation Range:
$83,200.00 - $178,800.00

The posted compensation range on this listing represents UMB's standard for this role, but the actual compensation may vary by geographic location, experience level, and other job-related factors. In addition, this range does not encompass the full earning potential for this role. Please see the description of benefits included with this job posting for additional information.

UMB offers competitive and varied benefits to eligible associates, such as Paid Time Off; a 401(k) matching program; annual incentive pay; paid holidays; a comprehensive company sponsored benefit plan including medical, dental, vision, and other insurance coverage; health savings, flexible spending, and dependent care accounts; adoption assistance; an employee assistance program; fitness reimbursement; tuition reimbursement; an associate wellbeing program; an associate emergency fund; and various associate banking benefits. Benefit offerings and eligibility requirements vary.

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