Position Title: Senior MQ Architect Location: Remote, NY Clearance Requirements: None Position Status: Contract Pay Rate: $85/hr on W2 Position Description We re seeking a highly skilled Messaging Platform Engineer/MQ Architect to design, deploy, and optimize enterprise-grade messaging solutions in hybrid cloud environments. This role is ideal for professionals with deep expertise in IBM MQ, high availability topologies, and secure message routing, who thrive in regulated environments and understand the nuances of performance, scalability, and audit-readiness. You ll play a critical role in integrating messaging platforms into DevOps pipelines, ensuring observability, and enabling secure, resilient communication across distributed systems. If you re passionate about infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native deployments, and building systems that support real-time business operations, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact. Key Responsibilities Design and implement high-availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) topologies for messaging platforms (e.g., RDQM, multi-instance QM, shared cluster patterns) Deploy and manage IBM MQ in AWS and hybrid cloud environments, ensuring secure and scalable connectivity Integrate messaging platforms into DevOps pipelines using Infrastructure-as-Code tools Configure and maintain TLS encryption, channel exits, and authorization records to meet enterprise security standards Monitor and troubleshoot messaging systems using Datadog or similar observability tools Collaborate with compliance teams to ensure systems meet FINRA, SEC, and other regulatory requirements Evaluate and support alternative messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ, SonicMQ, and Confluent Kafka Optimize performance and right-size infrastructure to meet non-functional requirements (NFRs) Required Skills & Education Proven experience with IBM MQ architecture, deployment, and administration Strong understanding of HA/DR configurations and cluster management Hands-on experience with cloud deployments, especially AWS Familiarity with DevOps integration, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools Working knowledge of RabbitMQ, SonicMQ, or Kafka is a plus Experience with observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana Exposure to regulated environments and audit-readiness practices Understanding of security protocols, encryption standards, and performance tuning Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.