• Architect, design, and maintain enterprise-grade IBM MQ solutions supporting mission-critical distributed systems. • Act as the technical lead for MQ platforms, providing guidance, standards, and best practices to application and platform teams. • Install, configure, upgrade, and patch IBM MQ across multiple environments, including on-premises and cloud deployments. • Design and implement high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning strategies for MQ queue managers. • Collaborate with application teams to design reliable messaging patterns, including request/reply, pub/sub, and event-driven architectures. • Develop and enforce MQ security standards, covering TLS, certificates, authentication, authorization, and queue-level access controls. • Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for MQ infrastructure to enable proactive detection and resolution of issues. • Lead incident response and root cause analysis for MQ-related production issues, driving permanent corrective actions. • Automate MQ operational tasks using scripting and configuration management tools to improve reliability and efficiency. • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership through design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing. • Stay current with the IBM MQ roadmap, messaging industry trends, and emerging technologies, recommending improvements as appropriate.