Mainframe MQ Systems Engineer

Position Overview

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We drive Responsible Growth by delivering for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day while fostering an inclusive workplace and supporting our teammates’ overall wellness.

This role is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies. You will create infrastructure tools and integrate them as services, develop templates, playbooks, and automation scripts, as well as seek opportunities to improve efficiency and embrace a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Salary: $104,200.00 - $155,300.00 annualized salary based on experience, education and skill set. Schedule: 1st shift; 40 hours per week. Location: Jersey City, NJ and Pennington, NJ.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies and assists Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Assists with translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies.
• Evaluates reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes.
• Conducts on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption.
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps resolve organizational impediments.
• Contributes to the creation or selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong working knowledge of IBM MQ concepts and associated IBM components/facilities, including MQ Objects and MQ subsystems, backup and recovery, logging and archiving, TLS and certificates, RACF, SDSF, MVS JCL, and TSO/ISPF.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ Years relevant experience.
• Significant experience with MQ clusters and MQ shared queues.
• Experience with automation and monitoring concepts and tools.

Benefits & Perks

• This role is currently benefits eligible and provides industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, and resources and support to make a genuine impact.
• Eligible to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan based on individual performance and overall company success.