Infrastructure Architect-MQ
Infrastructure Architect-MQ
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At Broadridge weve built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If youre passionate about developing your career while helping others along the way come join the Broadridge team.
We are seeking an experienced MQ Architect to lead the strategy design and evolution of our enterprise messaging and middleware ecosystem. This individual will play a pivotal role in rationalizing the existing MQ estate enabling secure and scalable patterns for application onboarding and delivering resilient messaging solutions that support our global infrastructure and business operations.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Platform Rationalization
Lead the discovery analysis and reduction of legacy fragmented MQ instances and topologies.
Define the blueprint for a Messaging-as-a-Platform model with reusable templates DR patterns and operational controls.
Establish platform SLAs and lifecycle management strategy (patching versioning deprecation).
Define and drive the MQ architecture roadmap across IBM MQ and future platforms.
Modernization & Cloud Enablement
Architect scalable secure MQ deployments across hybrid cloud (on-prem & AWS).
Define and implement HA/DR strategies (RDQM multi-instance clustering) aligned with application RTO/RPO needs.
Serve as middleware integration lead for cloud-native platforms and event-driven designs.
Partner with infrastructure and app teams to migrate legacy messaging workloads to scalable and observable platforms.
Automation and Self-Service
Develop onboarding frameworks to reduce friction for app teams: reusable IaC (Terraform/Ansible) pipeline integration self-service config portals.
Eliminate manual MQ by building orchestration across scripts triggers queue creation monitoring and alerting.
Work closely with our Intelligent Automation team to embed MQ into our runbook automation vision and other similar initiatives.
Governance & Security
Develop MQ governance modelsnaming conventions access controls TLS/mutual auth and compliance enforcement.
Define audit logging configuration baselines and change control workflows for middleware components.
Governance & Observability
Enforce governance: queue naming conventions channel management auth policies security standards.
Drive observability: define MQ metrics that matter (depth latency idle retry) integrate with Datadog or internal tools.
Partner with Broadridge Security team to ensure compliance with encryption access control and audit policies.
Leadership & Enablement
Mentor junior MQ engineers and serve as the go-to technical expert across middleware.
Be the middleware evangelist with app dev infra cloud and operations teamstranslate architecture into adoption.
Represent middleware in transformation initiatives incident reviews and technology strategy planning.
Qualifications:
Required:
8 years of experience in enterprise middleware with deep expertise in IBM MQ architecture and administration.
Strong knowledge of MQ HA/DR topologies (e.g. RDQM Multi-instance QM shared cluster patterns).
Experience with cloud deployments of messaging platforms (IBM MQ on AWS hybrid connectivity).
Familiarity with MQ integration into DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Understanding of NFRs like performance right sizing and security and encryption protocols in MQ (TLS channel exits auth records).
Preferred:
Working knowledge of RabbitMQ SonicMQ or Confluent Kafka is a plus.
Hands-on experience with observability tooling (Datadog similar others).
Exposure to regulatory environments (FINRA SEC etc.) and audit-readiness practices.
Soft Skills:
Strategic mindset with a hands-on approach.
Strong verbal and written communication skillsable to translate technical concepts into business terms.
Leadership qualities to guide and influence without direct authority.
Compensation Range: The salary range for this position is between $140000 - $150000. Broadridge considers various factors when evaluating a candidates final salary including but not limited to relevant experience skills and education.
Bonus Eligibility: Bonus Eligible
Benefits Information: Please visit for more information on our comprehensive benefit offerings.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
