If you’re the person who keeps enterprise messaging running when everything else is on fire, this role is your lane. You’ll own IBM MQ administration end-to-end, supporting integrations across mainframe, midrange, and server environments in a mission-critical shop.
About Conduent
Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions for Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments. Their Integration teams support the flow of data across platforms to keep essential systems stable, secure, and performing.
Schedule
- Remote (U.S.-based/onshore required)
- Standard hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00AM–5:00PM (ET)
- On-call rotation required (weekends and off-hours, 24/7 rotation)
- Travel may be required for training and disaster recovery
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the IBM MQ Administrator for enterprise messaging environments
- Monitor, maintain, and customize MQ systems and queue manager environments
- Evaluate, install, upgrade, and migrate MQ software versions
- Analyze and tune MQ performance to ensure reliable throughput
- Troubleshoot MQ issues and provide technical assistance to teams and customers
- Develop processes/procedures for MQ security, administration, recovery, chargeback, and automation
- Partner with application teams to implement messaging solutions aligned to enterprise architecture
- Produce daily status reports for the Systems Integration team
What You Need
- 3+ years of IBM WebSphere MQ administration, maintenance, and integration (v7+) including installation/configuration
- Application coding experience with IBM MQ (e.g., JCL, Cobol, Java, Java/JMS, C/C++) including debugging
- Experience with IBM WebSphere CICS adapter and MQI for connecting to MQ objects
- Knowledge of message security architecture and securing MQ environments
- Ability to administer queue managers and MQ objects (queues, channels, listeners, process definitions)
- Comfort with Windows OS and productivity tools (Word, Excel) plus remote administration
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Willingness to participate in 24/7 on-call rotation and travel overnight as needed
- Ability to multitask, take ownership, and work across mainframe, distributed systems, and network teams
Benefits
- Estimated salary range: $90,000–$103,000
- Health insurance coverage and voluntary dental/vision programs
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays and PTO/vacation/sick time (per policy)
- Potential eligibility for bonus/incentive (based on business need)
If you want a remote role with real responsibility and high-impact systems, this one’s worth a serious look.
Own the queues. Protect the pipeline. Keep the enterprise moving.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…