Senior Technical Lead

Job description

Lead the design, development and delivery of IBM MQ solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production. Key Responsibilities Technical Design & Delivery • Own detailed design for IBM MQ components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture. • Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria. • Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team. • Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations. Team Leadership • Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach. • Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing. • Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the IBM MQ skill set. Quality & Operations • Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team. • Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps. • Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds. Collaboration & Governance • Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle. • Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management. • Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team. Key Responsibilities Technology Focus — IBM MQ • Design, configure and support IBM MQ objects, clusters and messaging interfaces across environments. • Ensure reliable, secure and performant message delivery with appropriate resiliency and recovery design. • Troubleshoot integration incidents, tune throughput and maintain messaging standards and documentation. Required Technical Competencies Core Skills IBM MQ administration and development, queue managers, channels, clustering, triggering and message flows. Design & Architecture Messaging architecture, guaranteed delivery, transactionality, error/backout handling and integration patterns. Data & Integration Message formats, transformation, sequencing, poison-message handling and interface contracts. Platform & DevOps MQ on distributed and/or z/OS, high availability, security (TLS, channel auth), monitoring and capacity. Quality & Operations Interface testing, failover and recovery validation, performance tuning, incident diagnosis and RCA. Experience & Qualifications • 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong IBM MQ expertise. • Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience. • Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory. Leadership & Behavioural • Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes. • Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions. • Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. • Coaching mindset and collaborative working style. Location-Specific Expectations • Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones. • Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads. • Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness reviews. Key Deliverables & Success Measures • Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads. • High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines. • Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover. • Improved team capability, engineering consistency and reusable assets. • Timely escalation and resolution of technical risks and blockers. Skill Requirements Other Requirements Apply now Information at a Glance Why HCLTech? At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first. HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. 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