IBM Integration Team Lead .
Job Description
- Lead the
L2 Application Support team
responsible for enterprise IBM Integration platforms and services, ensuring high availability, stability, and reliable day-to-day operations.
- Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for
IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)
IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
IBM DataPower
environments.
- Manage and resolve complex
application support and integration incidents
, service requests, and production issues within defined SLAs and operational standards.
- Lead the
troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution
of critical integration issues across APIs, message flows, interfaces, queues, and connected applications.
- Provide expertise in
IBM Integration technologies
, including ACE, IIB, DataPower, message flows, MQ integration, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Monitor integration platforms and proactively identify
performance, availability, capacity, and connectivity issues
to minimize business impact and service disruption.
- Coordinate with application development, infrastructure, middleware, database, network, security, and vendor teams to resolve
complex production incidents and integration failures
.
- Act as the
technical escalation point
for L2 support issues and provide guidance to support engineers in troubleshooting and resolving complex incidents.
- Lead incident, problem, and change management activities in accordance with
ITIL and enterprise application support processes
.
- Perform detailed
root cause analysis (RCA)
for recurring and critical incidents and drive permanent corrective actions to improve platform stability.
- Ensure effective management of
production deployments, configuration changes, certificates, connectivity, and integration components
while adhering to change and release management procedures.
- Establish and maintain application support processes, operational procedures, monitoring standards, support documentation, and knowledge repositories .
- Work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to understand production issues, communicate service impact, and provide timely status updates and resolutions.
- Identify opportunities for
automation, monitoring improvements, operational efficiency, and reduction of recurring incidents
across the IBM Integration landscape.
- Mentor and develop L2 support engineers, conduct knowledge-sharing sessions, and build a strong
IBM Integration support capability
within the team.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise
security, governance, audit, availability, and operational standards
for IBM integration platforms.
- Support capacity planning, platform upgrades, environment management, and continuous improvement initiatives for the IBM Integration estate.
Required Experience & Skills
12+ years of overall IT experience
IBM Integration and application support
.
- Strong experience leading
L2 Application Support
teams in enterprise production environments.
- Hands-on expertise in
IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)
IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
.
- Strong knowledge and experience with
IBM DataPower
for API management, security, routing, transformation, and integration.
- Strong troubleshooting experience across
integration flows, APIs, message queues, connectivity, and middleware components
.
- Experience with
production support, incident management, problem management, change management, and SLA management
.
- Proven ability to lead technical teams, manage escalations, coordinate across multiple technology teams, and communicate effectively with business stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience in
banking/financial services or other large enterprise environments
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