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Enterprise Middleware Platform Lead

Randstad DigitalSheffield, South Yorkshire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 13 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead the strategic direction and operational excellence of critical enterprise middleware platforms, driving significant impact across a global financial infrastructure. You'll thrive here if you have extensive experience in platform management and a passion for technical leadership, with the flexibility to work from home part of the week. Apply today to shape the future of enterprise integration!

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Posted
4 days ago

Job Description

The Opportunity: In this role, you will take full ownership of the end-to-end product strategy, multi-quarter roadmap, and operational excellence for critical enterprise messaging and integration platforms. You will bridge engineering, architecture, and business teams to drive platform standardization, lifecycle management, and high-availability outcomes across a global financial infrastructure.

Your Impact

  • Strategy & Roadmap: Define and maintain multi-quarter product roadmaps covering security, automation, platform currency, and customer onboarding for IBM MQ, ACE, ITX, and Instana platforms.
  • Lifecycle & Governance: Lead platform lifecycle initiatives-including upgrades, deprecation strategies, and technical debt management-while enforcing reference architectures and security controls (mTLS, certificate management).
  • Reliability & Performance: Own service health outcomes by monitoring SLIs, SLOs, and MTTR, leading major incident reviews, and ensuring rigorous Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) testing.
  • Risk & Compliance: Ensure platforms meet strict audit, risk, and regulatory standards through vulnerability remediation, access controls, and active risk finding management.

Your Experience

  • Platform Expertise: Extensive experience in Product or Service Management for enterprise middleware, with deep expertise in IBM MQ and strong working knowledge of IBM ACE, ITX, and Instana/ITM.
  • Lifecycle & Reliability Management: Proven track record in managing platform KPIs/SLOs, capacity planning, enterprise HA/DR, and large-scale upgrade and standardization programs.
  • Stakeholder & Vendor Leadership: Strong ability to collaborate across engineering, cyber security, and business units, alongside experience managing vendor licensing and commercial relationships.
  • Regulated Environments (Desirable): Experience managing multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mainframe) enterprise estates within Financial Services or highly audited industries.

This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it manisha. Devaruppala @ randstaddigital .com

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.


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