Lead Systems Engineer (IBM Sterling)

Experience level: Mid-senior

Experience required: 7 Years

Education level: Bachelors degree

Job function: Information

Technology Industry: Financial Services

Total position: 1




JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work as a Member of The File Transfer Engineering team involved with the Configuration, Maintenance, and Support of Sterling File Gateway, Connect Direct (NDM) environment.
• This position will participate in the design & development of technical solutions within company strategic B2B/MFT platform which provide innovative technical improvements, improve quality and operational excellence, lower cost, satisfy regulatory and compliance requirements, mitigate risk, and satisfy business objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in computer engineering/Science Degree or related field
• 4-5 years experience in supporting real time production environments.
• Extensive debugging skills and fixing experience
• General knowledge of industry standards and best practices for supporting middleware technologies
• Knowledge of Ping Access, Ping Federate, LDAP, Active Directory, Connect Direct (NDM) Unix/Windows/Mainframe
• Developing transformation maps and processes for any-to-any data formats and RDBMS queries using IBM Sterling B2B Integrator mapping and business process modeling tools.
• This position requires sophisticated knowledge of B2B/MFT concepts, technologies, best practices, standards, and architectures within the IBM File Gateway suite.
• Minimum five years of technical experience in IBM File Gateway Suite (IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (preferably version 6.x) and IBM Sterling File Gateway, Sterling External Authentication Server, Secure Proxy, IBM Control Center Monitor) including:
• Experience with Installation and configuration of multi-node architecture environments, including upgrades and platform migration.
• Experience in setting up and testing disaster recovery environment to handle failover scenarios.
• Experience with onboarding new partners, transactions and making changes to existing partners to meet internal and external requirements.
• Experience in configuring adapters, service configuration and policies.
• Experience in setting up and configuring industry-standard communication protocols such as SFTP, FTPs, FTP, HTTP, HTTP, Connect: Direct, WebSphere MQ
• Experience with security configurations SSL certificates, SSH keys, PGP/GPG
• Experience with IBM File Gateway Suite maintenance and administration
• Experience with external authentication integration
• Experience with Java extensibility
• Development of custom protocols, custom file layers and custom consumer identification
• Must possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills.
• Hands-on experience in Production Support, resolving critical incidents using the IBM File Gateway Suite
• Knowledge of SQL queries, database schemas and related concepts using Oracle
• Knowledge of IBM Sterling File Gateway APIs.
• Should have Excellent communication and customer service skills.