About this role
Salary: £40,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements
- Critical experience in IBM MQ.
- Strong experience in product or service management for enterprise platforms such as middleware, integration, messaging, monitoring, or observability, ideally in a regulated environment.
- Deep knowledge of IBM MQ and solid working knowledge of ACE, ITX, and observability tools such as Instana or equivalent.
- Proven track record in platform lifecycle management, including upgrade programs, standardization, deprecation, and technical debt.
- Strong operational mindset, including incident and problem management, capacity planning, high availability and disaster recovery, and SLI/SLO-based performance management.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence multiple teams and senior stakeholders.
- Strong technical and communication skills, with the ability to act as a subject matter expert.
- Experience managing large-scale, multi-region messaging, integration, or observability platforms across multiple geographies and time zones.
- Proven IBM MQ delivery experience in a complex enterprise estate, such as one with hundreds or thousands of queue managers or a large application population.
- Hands-on experience or delivery leadership exposure to IBM ACE in distributed estates.
- Experience with IBM ITX in enterprise transformation workloads.
- Strong observability experience using Instana or equivalent enterprise tooling across a broad estate.
- Experience in environments with strict change governance and high audit scrutiny, and the ability to deliver currency and resilience improvements without increasing operational risk.
- Familiarity with hybrid cloud and container or platform patterns relevant to middleware and integration runtimes, including CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code automation.
- Experience leading cross-geography stakeholder groups and driving adoption of standard platforms through influence rather than authority.
- Financial services experience and exposure to vendor licensing and commercial management.
- Prior experience within a large regulated organisation or another company in the industry is a significant advantage.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive product management for messaging, integration, and observability platforms, including IBM MQ, ACE, ITX, and Instana.
- Ensure these services are secure, resilient, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with engineering and business needs.
- Set platform roadmaps and strategy.
- Act as a subject matter expert contact and handle governance.
- Provide cross-functional leadership, make clear decisions, and take end-to-end accountability for platform outcomes.
Technologies
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- IBM
- Instana
- Network
- Product Manager
- Product Owner
- Security
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We are recruiting an MQ Product Manager for a contract role based in Sheffield, with a hybrid arrangement requiring three days onsite each week. TEKsystems is part of the Allegis Group network of companies. If you apply, we will process your personal data as described in the Allegis Group Online Privacy Notice; data may be shared within the group and transferred or processed outside the UK, Switzerland, and the EEA subject to the protections described in that notice.
last updated 46 week of 2026