Principal Integration & Platform Reliability Architect

About the Role

We are recruiting for a senior technical leader specializing in enterprise integration and platform reliability, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role focuses on ensuring high reliability, performance, and comprehensive transaction traceability across complex integration layers and microservices ecosystems involving IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Red Hat OpenShift, and Spring Boot services. The successful candidate will act as the principal technical expert charged with maintaining platform stability, observability, and executing thorough Root Cause Analysis within distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Guarantee consistent and reliable transaction flow across API Connect, ACE, and Spring Boot services with complete visibility into all integration pathways.
• Lead detailed investigations into system issues, driving root cause analysis for failures such as MQ delivery problems, ACE flow interruptions, or JVM-related microservice instabilities.
• Monitor and enhance the performance of OpenShift platforms by analyzing resource consumption, modifying workloads, and ensuring effective pod scaling in line with fluctuating demands.
• Implement and enforce security protocols across integration layers, including managing challenges related to mTLS, OAuth2, token validations, and encrypted data payloads.
• Diagnose and address issues within ACE flows, ESQL coding errors, and adapter connectivity problems linked to SAP, databases, or file-based integrations.
• Manage MQ operations by overseeing queue managers, analyzing retry behaviors in channels, and resolving issues pertaining to dead-letter queues and message persistence.
• Provide support for API Connect by troubleshooting configuration problems, policy enforcement errors, and performance delays associated with the DataPower gateway.
• Conduct JVM performance diagnostics involving thread and heap analysis to troubleshoot memory leaks, CPU overloads, and degradation in microservice behavior.
• Troubleshoot integration concerns in Spring Boot services related to JPA/Hibernate, JMS/Kafka messaging, databases, and external system interconnections.
• Leverage log aggregation tools such as ELK, Splunk, or equivalent to correlate distributed service logs and pinpoint failure sources accurately.
• Maintain and improve observability using tools like Instana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Grafana to track the health of integration and microservice environments.
• Drive continuous enhancements in monitoring, documentation, and engineering methods to bolster the overall reliability of the integration ecosystem.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional experience as a Principal Integration & Platform Reliability Architect or in a comparable senior role.
• Deep proficiency with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration components including ACE, MQ, and API Connect.
• Advanced skills in Java and Spring Boot frameworks, including Spring Integration and Spring Cloud.
• Hands-on experience managing Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes within enterprise-scale settings.
• Strong understanding of integration protocols and data formats such as REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, AMQP, and MQTT.
• Practical usage experience with observability and monitoring platforms like Instana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Established expertise in root cause analysis, debugging of distributed systems, and enhancing platform reliability.
• Experience supporting integration and microservices platforms in large and complex organizational environments.

Additional Information

The position offers a competitive salary package along with benefits and variable compensation. Interested professionals who meet the criteria are encouraged to apply directly via contact details provided by the company. For inquiries, candidates can reach out to the specified email referencing the company’s job posting identifier.