Hybrid Infrastructure Architect – MQ

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About the role

  • MQ Architect at Broadridge leading strategy, design, and evolution of enterprise messaging and middleware ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the discovery, analysis, and reduction of legacy, fragmented MQ instances and topologies.
  • Define the blueprint for a "Messaging-as-a-Platform" model with reusable templates, DR patterns, and operational controls.
  • Establish platform SLAs and lifecycle management strategy (patching, versioning, deprecation).
  • Define and drive the MQ architecture roadmap across IBM MQ, and future platforms.
  • Architect scalable, secure MQ deployments across hybrid cloud (on-prem & AWS).
  • Define and implement HA/DR strategies (RDQM, multi-instance, clustering) aligned with application RTO/RPO needs.
  • Serve as middleware integration lead for cloud-native platforms and event-driven designs.
  • Partner with infrastructure and app teams to migrate legacy messaging workloads to scalable and observable platforms.
  • Develop onboarding frameworks to reduce friction for app teams: reusable IaC (Terraform/Ansible), pipeline integration, self-service config portals.
  • Eliminate "manual MQ" by building orchestration across scripts, triggers, queue creation, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Work closely with our Intelligent Automation team to embed MQ into our runbook automation vision and other similar initiatives.
  • Develop MQ governance models—naming conventions, access controls, TLS/mutual auth, and compliance enforcement.
  • Define audit logging, configuration baselines, and change control workflows for middleware components.
  • Enforce governance: queue naming conventions, channel management, auth policies, security standards.
  • Drive observability: define MQ metrics that matter (depth, latency, idle, retry), integrate with Datadog or internal tools.
  • Mentor junior MQ engineers and serve as the go-to technical expert across middleware.
  • Be the “middleware evangelist” with app dev, infra, cloud, and operations teams—translate architecture into adoption.
  • Represent middleware in transformation initiatives, incident reviews, and technology strategy planning.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in enterprise middleware, with deep expertise in IBM MQ architecture and administration.
  • Strong knowledge of MQ HA/DR topologies (e.g., RDQM, Multi-instance QM, shared cluster patterns).
  • Experience with cloud deployments of messaging platforms (IBM MQ on AWS, hybrid connectivity).
  • Familiarity with MQ integration into DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Understanding of NFRs like performance, right sizing, and security and encryption protocols in MQ (TLS, channel exits, auth records).
  • Working knowledge of RabbitMQ, SonicMQ, or Confluent Kafka is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tooling (Datadog, similar others).
  • Exposure to regulatory environments (FINRA, SEC, etc.) and audit-readiness practices.

Benefits

  • Please visit www.broadridgebenefits.com for more information on our comprehensive benefit offerings for this role.
  • All Colorado employees receive paid sick leave in compliance with the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act and other legally required benefits, as applicable.

Job title

Infrastructure Architect – MQ

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$140,000 - $150,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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