About this role
Job Description In this role, the candidate will provide end?to?end middleware expertise, including planning, consulting, technical analysis, solution design, deployment, development support, testing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades, and daily operational support for HIAL middleware components. The candidate will work closely with cross?functional teams?including support, security, privacy, change management, release management, quality assurance, and various program and business stakeholders?to ensure upgrades are executed successfully with minimal service disruption.
Responsibilities:
The Senior Middleware Specialist is accountable for the end?to?end implementation of the HIAL technology upgrade and migration to AWS project. This includes hands?on technical execution, development of CI/CD pipelines for the deployment of IBM DataPower and other components to OpenShift Container Platform, coordination across multiple support teams, guiding QA and validation activities, and ensuring all components are delivered successfully with minimal impact to mission?critical health services.
• Perform all technical activities required for the HIAL technology upgrade and migration to AWS, including system preparation, deployment, configuration, optimization, and validation across all the Agency environments.
• Provide expert?level troubleshooting to resolve complex middleware, integration, and infrastructure challenges that arise during the upgrade lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain detailed implementation plans, technical procedures, runbooks, and operational guides for execution by cross?functional support teams.
• Identify risks and issues early, propose mitigation strategies, and communicate impacts to project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Security, Privacy, and Infrastructure teams to ensure all upgrade activities meet enterprise standards and compliance requirements.
• Coordinate with Infrastructure, UNIX, Network, Middleware Support, Backup & Storage, and QA teams to ensure all upgrade activities are executed efficiently and consistently.
• Support QA testing by preparing environments, resolving defects, and validating readiness for deployment.
• Ensure full adherence to the Agency change and release management processes throughout all upgrade stages.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation, status reports, and readiness checklists to support go?live and operational transition.
Required Skills:
• 7?10+ years of progressive, hands?on experience in middleware engineering, integration services, or related technical domains, with a demonstrated ability to lead complex platform upgrades and modernization initiatives.
• Proven experience supporting and sustaining large?scale, mission?critical application environments across diverse technology stacks, preferably within highly regulated sectors such as healthcare or public service.
• Hands?on expertise in the following technology stack: IBM DataPower (migrating from physical appliance to OpenShift Container Platform), and IBM App Connect Enterprise, Java Spring Boot microservices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and CI/CD pipeline development for deploying, automating, and managing c