Middleware Lead

ARLINGTON, VA, US • Posted 18 hours ago • Updated 6 hours ago

Full Time

On-site

SAIC

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Skills

Security Clearance
Insurance
Information Security
ISS
Banking
Cyber Security
IT Operations
Risk Management
Finance
Collaboration
Disaster Recovery
Messaging
Patch Management
Hardening
Auditing
Database
Capacity Management
Enterprise Integration
Optimization
System Integration
Scalability
Communication
High Availability
Apache Tomcat
Apache Kafka
Computer Science
Oracle WebLogic
WildFly
IBM WebSphere
Scripting
SOAP
Web Services
Load Balancing
Performance Tuning
PASS
Microservices
Kubernetes
Docker
AppDynamics
Dynatrace
Splunk
Analytics
Management
Middleware
Cloud Computing
ITIL
IT Service Management
Information Technology
Systems Engineering
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Summary

Job ID: 2601970

Location: ARLINGTON, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-03-02

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: IT Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC is proud to support the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) under the newly awarded Information Security Services (ISS) contract, providing innovative solutions to strengthen and safeguard the nation's banking system. We are seeking passionate and talented professionals to join our team in delivering cutting-edge cybersecurity, IT operations, and risk management services. This exciting opportunity allows you to work alongside industry leaders, leveraging advanced technologies to support the FDIC's mission of maintaining public confidence in the financial system.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Collaborate with software developers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to determine middleware requirements and align on integration solutions.

Evaluate new middleware technologies and provide recommendations to enhance system interoperability and organizational agility.

Maintain middleware environments to meet high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) requirements.

Ensure middleware integration points and messaging systems are redundant and recoverable in disaster scenarios.

Oversee regular vulnerability assessments, patch management, and middleware system hardening.

Conduct regular audits and optimization of middleware platforms to improve response times, user experiences, and overall system performance.

Lead efforts to integrate enterprise applications using middleware technologies

Serve as a key escalation point for complex middleware-related issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve problems efficiently.

Design, build, and maintain robust middleware solutions that facilitate seamless communication between applications, databases, and external systems.

Implement best practices for middleware architecture, configurations, and tuning to ensure high performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.

Oversee middleware deployment and capacity planning to meet current needs and future growth.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience managing middleware technologies and enterprise integration frameworks. In this critical role, you will lead the management, design, implementation, and optimization of middleware platforms that enable application integration, scalability, and reliable communication across the enterprise.

Experience with large-scale middleware environments (100+ integrations) in high-availability enterprise systems.

Strong expertise in middleware platforms such as: WebLogic, JBoss EAP, Tomcat, Apache Kafka, IBM WebSphere

Qualifications and Skills:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Certifications in middleware platforms, such as: Oracle WebLogic, JBoss EAP Administration and WebSphere among others.

Proficiency in middleware scripting and automation

Solid understanding of APIs, REST, and SOAP web services and their middleware integrations.

Extensive knowledge of distributed systems, load balancing, and performance tuning for middleware

Ability to obtain and maintain an FDIC Public Trust

Ability to successfully pass the SAIC Background investigation to establish a start date

Desired:

Familiarity with microservices architecture and middleware's role in supporting containerized environments such as Kubernetes and Docker.

Knowledge of monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Dynatrace, ELK Stack, or Splunk for middleware analytics.

Experience managing middleware in hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.

ITIL certification for IT service management frameworks.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 10111346
Position Id: 2601970
Posted 18 hours ago

Company Info

About SAIC

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500 mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets include secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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