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Director – Middleware & Technology Platforms – Investment Banking

London, England, GBFull-time£160k2026-11-09 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Senior leadership role owning business-critical Middleware and Platforms Support, including messaging, integration, and workload automation services.

Role type

Director, Technology Platforms & Middleware

Builds

Resilient, automated, and modernized middleware and integration platforms for global banking operations.

Domain

Investment Banking / Financial Services Technology

Required skills

Senior leadership in financial services technology, IBM MQ, AutoSys, business-critical platform ownership, people leadership, major incident management, service governance, operational risk management, stakeholder influence.

Preferred skills

None stated.

Technologies

IBM MQ, AutoSys

Responsibilities

Lead and develop specialist middleware and platform support teams, Own the strategy, performance, resilience and lifecycle management of critical middleware services, Drive improvements across IBM MQ, AutoSys and associated messaging and integration platforms, Lead major incident management, root cause analysis and service recovery, Develop platform roadmaps focused on modernisation, automation and operational efficiency, Oversee production readiness for major releases, upgrades, migrations and service transitions.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on operational oversight