Senior Financial Messaging & Middleware Engineer – FIX / SWIFT

Job Description We are seeking a Senior Financial Messaging & Middleware Engineer responsible for the architecture, engineering, automation, security, modernization, and operational support of enterprise FIX and SWIFT messaging platforms across Linux, OpenShift/Kubernetes, cloud, and appliance-based environments supporting critical financial market infrastructure.

Position: Senior Financial Messaging & Middleware Engineer Specialization: FIX / SWIFT Experience: 6+ Years Skills Category: IT IS_AMS_MiddleWare_WAS Location: Dallas, TX / Tampa, FL / Jersey City, NJ

Key Responsibilities Design, engineer, deploy, and support FIX and SWIFT messaging platforms .

Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot SWIFT infrastructure components and financial messaging services.

Support message routing, connectivity, security controls, encryption, and compliance requirements .

Manage and support middleware and distributed systems across enterprise environments.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native/containerized solutions.

Lead platform modernization, automation, resiliency, and disaster recovery initiatives.

Support highly available and scalable financial messaging architectures.

Perform root cause analysis, incident management, and problem management .

Develop engineering standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support documentation.

Collaborate with infrastructure, security, cloud, application, and other technology teams.

Support integrations involving MQ, Kafka, APIs , and other enterprise messaging technologies.

Required Technical Skills FIX / SWIFT: FIX Protocol, Broadridge Appia, QuickFIX

SWIFT: SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), FIN, FINPlus, InterAct, FileAct

Messaging Standards: ISO 15022 (MT), ISO 20022 (MX)

Containers & Platforms: OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker

Cloud: AWS

Infrastructure Automation: Terraform, Ansible

DevOps: CI/CD pipelines

Operating Systems: Linux

Scripting: Strong scripting experience

Integration: MQ, Kafka, APIs

Preferred / Nice-to-Have SWIFT certifications

SWIFT CSP compliance experience

Experience designing and supporting highly available FIX/SWIFT architectures

Financial messaging and capital markets experience

Experience with MQ/Kafka/API integrations

Cloud transformation and modernization initiatives

Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

Equivalent professional experience may be considered.

6+ years of experience supporting middleware, financial messaging, or distributed systems.

Strong experience working with enterprise financial messaging platforms and production-critical environments.