Job DescriptionWe are seeking a
Senior Financial Messaging & Middleware Engineer responsible for the architecture, engineering, automation, security, modernization, and operational support of enterprise
FIX and SWIFT messaging platforms across Linux, OpenShift/Kubernetes, cloud, and appliance-based environments supporting critical financial market infrastructure.
Position: Senior Financial Messaging & Middleware Engineer
Specialization: FIX / SWIFT
Experience: 6+ Years
Skills Category: IT IS_AMS_MiddleWare_WAS
Location: Dallas, TX / Tampa, FL / Jersey City, NJKey Responsibilities- Design, engineer, deploy, and support FIX and SWIFT messaging platforms.
- Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot SWIFT infrastructure components and financial messaging services.
- Support message routing, connectivity, security controls, encryption, and compliance requirements.
- Manage and support middleware and distributed systems across enterprise environments.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native/containerized solutions.
- Lead platform modernization, automation, resiliency, and disaster recovery initiatives.
- Support highly available and scalable financial messaging architectures.
- Perform root cause analysis, incident management, and problem management.
- Develop engineering standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support documentation.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, cloud, application, and other technology teams.
- Support integrations involving MQ, Kafka, APIs, and other enterprise messaging technologies.
Required Technical Skills- FIX / SWIFT: FIX Protocol, Broadridge Appia, QuickFIX
- SWIFT: SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), FIN, FINPlus, InterAct, FileAct
- Messaging Standards: ISO 15022 (MT), ISO 20022 (MX)
- Containers & Platforms: OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker
- Cloud: AWS
- Infrastructure Automation: Terraform, Ansible
- DevOps: CI/CD pipelines
- Operating Systems: Linux
- Scripting: Strong scripting experience
- Integration: MQ, Kafka, APIs
Preferred / Nice-to-Have- SWIFT certifications
- SWIFT CSP compliance experience
- Experience designing and supporting highly available FIX/SWIFT architectures
- Financial messaging and capital markets experience
- Experience with MQ/Kafka/API integrations
- Cloud transformation and modernization initiatives
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Equivalent professional experience may be considered.
- 6+ years of experience supporting middleware, financial messaging, or distributed systems.
- Strong experience working with enterprise financial messaging platforms and production-critical environments.
