Staff Engineer / IBM MQ Consultant

Overview

Connecting clients to markets - and talent to opportunity. With 5,400+ employees and over 80,000 institutional, commercial, and payments clients, we operate from more than 80 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets - focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business Segment Overview

Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose :

We are looking for a Messaging Platform Engineer to support the development, operation, and continuous improvement of our enterprise messaging platform based on IBM MQ.

This role is ideal for an engineer who has hands-on experience with messaging systems and wants to grow their skills in a large-scale, business-critical environment. You will work closely with senior engineers and platform leads to help maintain reliable, secure, and performant messaging services used across the organisation

Key Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day operation of the IBM MQ messaging platform across multiple environments.
• Assist with the installation, configuration, and maintenance of IBM MQ components.
• Monitor platform health, investigate issues, and help resolve incidents and service disruptions.
• Participate in change, release, and patching activities under guidance from senior engineers.
• Help implement and follow operational standards, runbooks, and best practices.
• Work with application teams to support onboarding, connectivity, and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and platform improvements.
• Support security, compliance, and audit requirements related to messaging services.
• Take part in on-call or support rotations where required.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• Hands-on experience working with IBM MQ (or a strong understanding of enterprise messaging concepts).
• Experience supporting production systems in a Linux or Unix-based environment.
• Basic understanding of:
  • Messaging patterns (point-to-point, pub/sub)
  • High availability and resilience concepts
  • Networking fundamentals
• Familiarity with scripting (e.g. Bash, Python, or similar) for operational tasks.
• Experience using monitoring and alerting tools.
• Ability to follow processes, troubleshoot issues, and escalate effectively when needed.
• Good communication skills and willingness to work collaboratively with other teams.
• Exposure to other messaging or streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka, ActiveMQ, AMQ).
• Basic knowledge of containers or Kubernetes.
• Experience working in a regulated or financial services environment.
• Understanding of ITIL or structured incident / change management processes.
• Opportunity to work on mission-critical messaging platforms used across the business.
• Clear learning and progression path towards senior and lead engineering roles.
• Support from experienced messaging and platform engineers.
• A collaborative, professional team environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package