{"id":1121961,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hellokindred-enterprise-integration-product-manager-2","title":"Enterprise Integration Product Manager","company":{"id":4311,"name":"HelloKindred","domain":"hellokindred.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hellokindred","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":true,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":null,"employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sheffield, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":null,"max":374,"currency":"GBP","period":"day","gross":null,"usd_annual":125000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"IBM MQ","optional":false},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":false},{"name":"COBOL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T14:12:37Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T08:52:45Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Who is HelloKindred?\nHelloKindred are specialists in staffing marketing, creative and technology roles, offering a range of talent solutions that can be delivered on-site, remotely or hybrid.\nOur vision is to make work accessible and people’s lives better. We do this by disrupting traditional employment barriers - connecting ambitious talent to flexible opportunities with trusted brands.\n Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: May 31, 2027\nWork Setup: Hybrid (60% office / 40% home)\nClearance Required: BPSS - Contractor must be eligible\nOur client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an experienced Enterprise Integration Product Manager to join their team.\nWhat you will do:\nDefine and maintain a multi-quarter product roadmap covering currency, resilience, security improvements, automation, and consumer experience.\nOwn platform lifecycle management across the estate, including standard versions, upgrade plans, deprecation and exit strategies, and technical debt prioritisation.\nShape and prioritise demand using transparent criteria including risk reduction, service stability, regulatory requirements, cost, and customer impact.\nSet and maintain standards and reference patterns for IBM MQ, including configuration baselines, connectivity patterns, TLS/mTLS, authorisation, auditing, and logging.\nSet and maintain standards for ACE integration patterns, deployment and runtime standards, and operational governance.\nSet and maintain standards for ITX map governance, version control, runtime deployment, and controls.\nSet and maintain ITM and Instana standards covering monitoring coverage, alert policies, dashboards, noise reduction, and actionable alerts.\nLead governance forums to manage exceptions, reduce fragmentation, and improve time-to-deliver for consuming teams.\nMaintain product documentation and service catalogue entries, ensuring clarity around supported services and consumption methods.\nOwn service health outcomes covering availability, stability, performance, capacity, and resilience.\nDefine and track SLIs, SLOs, and KPIs, including incident trends, MTTR, change failure rate, and platform performance indicators.\nLead major incident reviews and drive root cause elimination.\nDrive problem management, reliability engineering initiatives, and runbook maturity.\nDefine, test, and evidence disaster recovery and high-availability expectations.\nConvert the roadmap into a prioritised backlog and delivery plan with engineering, SRE/operations, and programme partners.\nLead delivery of platform initiatives, including upgrades, migrations, monitoring rollouts, automation, and hardening.\nEnsure changes meet non-functional requirements and progress through appropriate change and release governance with clear consumer communications.\nMaintain the platform security posture through patching, vulnerability remediation, secure configuration, access controls, and certificate lifecycle management.\nOwn and manage product risk items and remediation plans.\nSupport audits by providing evidence and driving findings through to closure.\nPartner with cybersecurity, architecture, and risk teams to design and implement compliant solutions.\nAct as the primary senior interface for application teams, architecture, operations/SRE, cybersecurity, and service management stakeholders.\nCommunicate roadmap, standards, service health, and key changes clearly while managing expectations and dependencies across teams.\nDrive improvements to consumer onboarding and adoption through templates, reference implementations, and enablement.\nManage IBM and tooling vendor relationships, including support case escalations and roadmap alignment.\nOwn licensing and cost management, including utilisation analysis, renewal planning, optimisation, and waste avoidance.\nSet platform standards and approve or decline non-standard implementations through established governance.\nPrioritise backlog items and sequence delivery against available capacity and risk.\nManage large-scale, multi-region deployments across multiple geographies and time zones, including operating model alignment, follow-the-sun support, regional standardisation, and regulatory or latency constraints.\nTrack product success measures, including high-severity incident reduction, repeat issue reduction, MTTR improvement, supported-version coverage, patch and vulnerability compliance, monitoring and observability coverage, alert-noise reduction, cost optimisation, roadmap delivery, and consumer satisfaction.\n Bring strong experience in product or service management for enterprise platforms, particularly middleware, integration, messaging, monitoring, or observability platforms, ideally within a regulated environment.\nPossess deep knowledge of IBM MQ and solid working knowledge of ACE, ITX, and observability tools such as ITM, Instana, or equivalent technologies.\nOffer a proven track record in platform lifecycle management, including upgrade programmes, standardisation, deprecation, and technical debt management.\nApply a strong operational mindset across incident and problem management, capacity planning, resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, and SLI/SLO-based performance management.\nDemonstrate strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence across multiple teams and senior stakeholders.\nHave experience managing large-scale, multi-region deployments of messaging, integration, and observability platforms across multiple geographies and time zones.\nUnderstand operating model alignment, including follow-the-sun support, regional standardisation, and management of regional regulatory and latency constraints.\nPossess proven delivery experience with IBM MQ within a complex enterprise estate supporting hundreds or thousands of queue managers or a large application population.\nExhibit strong decision-making, prioritisation, governance, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.\nManage platform risk, compliance, security requirements, vendor relationships, licensing, and cost optimisation effectively.\nBe eligible for BPSS clearance.\n All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.\nCandidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based, without requiring employer sponsorship.\nHelloKindred is committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills, experience, and role-related requirements.\nWe appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.\nHelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. 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