Senior MQseries Platform Specialist, Dublin

Location/Office Policy: Central Park, Dublin 18 - 3 days in Office per week

• Are you looking for an opportunity to work with a  dynamic technology team in a fast‑paced environment, delivering outstanding results?
• Do you want to work on a key technology (MQsereis) that connects multiple internal and external application across AIB 
• Do you value a hybrid working model and a collaborative office culture, with three days per week based in Central Park, Dublin?

What is the Role:

• The MQ Level 4 role is a senior technical leadership position within Enterprise Delivery, responsible for the stability, performance, security and strategic direction of the IBM MQ estate across mainframe and distributed platforms.
• The role holder will act as a technical authority for MQ, providing deep subject matter expertise, leading complex problem resolution, supporting major change initiatives, and ensuring MQ services are resilient, scalable and aligned to enterprise integration strategy.
• This role works closely with application teams, infrastructure, security, vendors and service partners to ensure MQ continues to operate as a mission critical messaging platform for the organisation.

Key accountabilities;

• Provide L4 technical ownership for the IBM MQ platform across z/OS and distributed environments.
• Act as final escalation point for complex MQ incidents, including performance degradation, availability issues and data integrity concerns.
• Lead root cause analysis for major incidents and ensure robust, sustainable remediation.
• Own and maintain MQ technical standards, configuration patterns and operational best practice.
• Drive capacity planning, performance tuning and resilience improvements across the MQ estate.
• Assess, design and govern MQ-related change, ensuring changes are safe, well designed and aligned to enterprise architecture.
• Provide technical leadership for MQ upgrades, migrations, security enhancements and automation initiatives.
• Partner with Cyber Security to ensure MQ configurations meet security, audit and compliance requirements.
• Work with vendors (e.g. IBM) to manage support engagements, defects and product roadmaps.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, raising overall MQ capability and reducing operational risk.
• Contribute to technology strategy, roadmaps and investment planning for integration platforms.

 What you Will Bring;

• Deep, hands on experience administering IBM MQ in largescale enterprise environments.
• Strong experience of MQ on z/OS and distributed platforms (Linux / Windows).
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex MQ performance and stability issues.
• Experience with MQ security concepts including TLS, certificates, channel security and authentication.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery and resilience patterns for MQ.
• Experience working in highly regulated, 24x7 production environments.
• Ability to lead technical decisions and communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Why Work for AIB: 

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include; 

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

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Key Capabilities 

• Technical Leadership
• Promotes Innovation
• Breadth of technical knowledge
• Systems and Technology Integration
• Collaborates
• Ensures Accountability

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role, Sarah Lyons at careers@aib.ie  for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie

 Disclaimer: 

Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.  

Application deadline : 7th April, 2026