Job Description Summary

Raymond James is committed to the latest in technology to provide the very best service and solutions for our clients and financial advisors. As a Systems and Data Engineer at Raymond James, we offer you the opportunity to grow technically and professionally.

We are searching for someone who is high-energy, confident, can meet customer needs, and can help us move into the next generation of data message\streaming integration.

If that sounds like you, we would you like to apply your skills and creativity to deliver quality solutions and support for our customers, and engage with a great team of specialists while learning new tools and platforms. Do you have the inventiveness to automate solutions, simplify support, and stabilize critical applications that integrate with data messaging platforms using IBM MQ, ACE, BAW, ODM and Kafka and in turn enhance continuous improvement and quality?

If the answer is yes, our desire is to provide you the freedom to collaborate with architecture, DevOps engineering, development and application support teams to provide messaging solutions and develop strategies to automate delivery through the development pipeline. In addition, you will be introduced to several platforms and tools running on Windows, Linux, and DevOps technologies including containers, micro services, Kubernetes, Chef, and Jenkins.

Job Description

Essential Duties:

This role needs your experience to design, install, upgrade, analyze, remediate, document, and automate messaging solutions for:

• Enterprise applications and services in Java and .NET running on Windows and Linux, and HP Non Stop.

• Messaging technologies: IBM MQ server and client, JMS, AMQ, Kafka.

• DevOps: Chef, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Ansible

• Integration: IBM ACE, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), IBM BAW, ODM

Using tools:

• Monitoring: Splunk, Dynatrace, IR360, IBM MQ Web Administrator, MQ Explorer

• Continuous delivery: Tools: Chef, Jenkins, TFS

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and lead direction in integration platform architecture that provides stability, resilience, efficiency, security, and flexibility employing best practices for enterprise applications.

• Work with development and architecture teams to design, implement, and support scalable, reliable integration solutions.

• Acts as product owner and liaison for IBM integration products and creates standards and guidance in collaboration with IBM architecture and administration teams to ensure developers use of IBM integrations products follows standards and best practices that maximize product performance and stability.

• Support Life Cycle Management by providing timely product roadmaps to keep platforms up date, support the emerging development architecture and retire aging systems.

• Improve business continuity and disaster recovery design, planning, and documentation including fault tolerance.

• Simplify and/or automate processes to allow offshore support teams to successfully handle more support and change requests.

• Ensures adherence to Service Level Agreements regarding platform availability and reliability.

• Effectively manages communication between architecture, development, quality testing, administrators, and IT management roadmaps, current issues, open vendor tickets, upcoming maintenance, and platform changes.

• Creates and oversees documentation of system run books, problem resolution steps, and tenant application information.

• The role will provide support for IBM integration products, including after-hours support and on-call. Well-engineered data integration solutions, simple and well-documented processes, and automation will minimize after-hours and on-call engagement.

Qualifications

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in assigned area or combination or education, experience and training.

• Engineering experience in design, build, configuration, delivery and automation of Data Integration platforms including but not limited to:

  • MQ Integration in one or more: IBM MQ V9.3 and later

  • ACE Integration: IBM ACE 12 or later

  • Implementation of enterprise monitoring to ensure required availability.

  • Automation in one or more: Shell scripting, PowerShell, Python, Ansible Playbooks

  • Experience running messaging platforms on Linux using RDQM.

Preferred:

• Mentoring development teams on adopting IBM and Industry best practices related to MQ

• Integrating MQ with IBM Business Process Manager (BPM/BAW)

• Implementation and maintenance of CCDT file

• Data\Event Streaming: Kafka

• Experience with IBM ACE, WAS, BPW/BAW and ODM

• Web platforms: IIS, Apache, Jboss, Nginx

• Monitoring: Datadog , DynaTrace, Splunk

• Infrastructure As Code: Chef, Puppet, Ansible

• Experience with CI tools: Jenkins, TFS, Git

• Any cloud experience: AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure

• Service Delivery Workflow Automation: ServiceNow

• Network and security concepts and technologies

• Using concepts, principles and practices of systems engineering.

• Understanding of Java and .NET code design related to messaging.

• Network and security concepts and technologies

• Understanding of TCP/IP networking standards, protocols, etc

• Project/Quality Management

• Practices/Change control

Licenses/Certifications:

• MQ Certification (highly preferred)

Education

Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science, Bachelor’s: Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s: Computer Systems Analysis, High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience

General Experience - 6 to 10 years

Certifications

Travel

Workstyle

Hybrid

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.

We expect our associates at all levels to:
• Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
• Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
• Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
• Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.