Senior Technical Lead

ROLE 

BAND 

TECH STACK 

EXPERIENCE 

TYPE 

IBM Technical Lead 

E2.2 

IBM MQ 

10+ Years 

Full-time 

Technical Design & Delivery 

•  Own detailed design for IBM MQ components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture. 

•  Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria. 

•  Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team. 

•  Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations. 

Team Leadership 

•  Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach. 

•  Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing. 

•  Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the IBM MQ skill set. 

Quality & Operations 

•  Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team. 

•  Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps. 

•  Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds. 

Collaboration & Governance 

•  Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle. 

•  Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management. 

•  Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team. 

•  Design, configure and support IBM MQ objects, clusters and messaging interfaces across environments. 

•  Ensure reliable, secure and performant message delivery with appropriate resiliency and recovery design. 

•  Troubleshoot integration incidents, tune throughput and maintain messaging standards and documentation. 

Core Skills 

IBM MQ administration and development, queue managers, channels, clustering, triggering and message flows. 

Design & Architecture 

Messaging architecture, guaranteed delivery, transactionality, error/backout handling and integration patterns. 

Data & Integration 

Message formats, transformation, sequencing, poison-message handling and interface contracts. 

Platform & DevOps 

MQ on distributed and/or z/OS, high availability, security (TLS, channel auth), monitoring and capacity. 

Quality & Operations 

Interface testing, failover and recovery validation, performance tuning, incident diagnosis and RCA. 

Experience & Qualifications 

•  10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong IBM MQ expertise. 

•  Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles. 

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience. 

•  Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory. 

Leadership & Behavioural 

•  Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes. 

•  Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions. 

•  Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. 

•  Coaching mindset and collaborative working style. 

Location-Specific Expectations 

•  Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones. 

•  Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads. 

•  Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness reviews. 

Key Deliverables & Success Measures 

•  Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads. 

•  High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines. 

•  Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover. 

•  Improved team capability, engineering consistency and reusable assets. 

•  Timely escalation and resolution of technical risks and blockers.