Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Middleware Solutioning

About the role

This role serves as a strategic liaison between Line of Business (LOB) application teams and the enterprise platform organization. This role is accountable for driving end-to-end infrastructure solution design, with a strong emphasis on middleware platforms to ensure application integration, scalability, and reliability across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional solutioning efforts while bringing practical experience from hands-on delivery to ensure designs are actionable, efficient, and aligned to real-world execution processes.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and influence, partnering across CTO architecture, platform engineering, security, and application development teams to improve decision velocity, reduce friction, and enable scalable outcomes.
• Lead solution design engagements across LOB application teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise infrastructure standards and approved products.
• Drive end-to-end solution ownership, from initial design through onboarding, implementation alignment, and operational readiness.
• Facilitate and lead cross-functional solutioning sessions with stakeholders including Application Development, CTO Architecture, WIMT Architecture, Security, Network, Middleware, and Database teams.
• Apply practical execution experience to ensure solutions are realistic, implementable, and aligned to existing delivery processes.
• Identify and resolve design gaps, conflicting requirements, and cross-team dependencies.
• Exercise judgment in when to drive intervention vs. when to leverage established processes, ensuring efficient and scalable delivery.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure solution designs transition cleanly into execution.
• Identify opportunities to improve execution processes, reduce friction, and streamline delivery based on hands-on experience.
• Reinforce adoption of enterprise design patterns and infrastructure standards.
• Audit operational readiness including monitoring, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and incident response integration.
• Support lifecycle management strategy by aligning solutions to enterprise currency, compliance, and modernization objectives.
• Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications.
• Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure.
• Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals.
• Review and analyze high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid problems in the future.
• Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaborative efforts with the team and third party vendors.
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices.
• Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans and identify project risks and resource requirements.
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success.
• Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Interact with customer and vendor

Requirements

• 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure domains including compute, storage, networking, cloud, security, and middleware platforms (e.g., application servers, messaging systems, API gateways).
• 5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
• 5+ years of experience in both solution design and hands-on execution/delivery of infrastructure solutions.
• Strong expertise in middleware technologies such as application servers, messaging platforms (Kafka, MQ), API gateways, and integration frameworks.
• Deep understanding of middleware design patterns including asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience designing and supporting middleware solutions in large-scale, regulated environments.
• Familiarity with middleware performance tuning, scalability strategies, and fault tolerance mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of enterprise delivery processes and operating models.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including leading design discussions and resolving ambiguity.
• Ability to influence decisions across engineering, architecture, and application teams.
• Ability to balance strategic solutioning with practical execution realities.
• Proven track record of identifying and implementing improvements in delivery or engineering processes.
• Prior hands-on experience delivering infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments.
• Deep familiarity with infrastructure delivery lifecycle (design, build, deploy, operate).
• Experience translating architectural intent into executable, supportable solutions.
• Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience exploring or applying AI, automation, or intelligent tooling in engineering workflows.
• Ability to identify opportunities where AI can improve solution design, analysis, documentation, or operational efficiency.
• Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate problem-solving, decision-making, and delivery outcomes.
• Mindset oriented toward continuous learning, experimentation, and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Willingness to challenge traditional approaches and incorporate AI-driven capabilities into day-to-day work.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Required Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure domains including compute, storage, networking, cloud, security, and middleware platforms (e.g., application servers, messaging systems, API gateways).
• Required Qualifications: 5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
• Required Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in both solution design and hands-on execution/delivery of infrastructure solutions.
• Desired Qualifications: Strong expertise in middleware technologies such as application servers, messaging platforms (Kafka, MQ), API gateways, and integration frameworks.
• Desired Qualifications: Deep understanding of middleware design patterns including asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, and service-to-service communication.
• Desired Qualifications: Experience designing and supporting middleware solutions in large-scale, regulated environments.
• Desired Qualifications: Familiarity with middleware performance tuning, scalability strategies, and fault tolerance mechanisms.
• Desired Qualifications: Strong understanding of enterprise delivery processes and operating models.
• Desired Qualifications: Strong communication and facilitation skills, including leading design discussions and resolving ambiguity.
• Desired Qualifications: Ability to influence decisions across engineering, architecture, and application teams.
• Desired Qualifications: Ability to balance strategic solutioning with practical execution realities.
• Desired Qualifications: Proven track record of identifying and implementing improvements in delivery or engineering processes.
• Desired Qualifications: Prior hands-on experience delivering infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments.
• Desired Qualifications: Deep familiarity with infrastructure delivery lifecycle (design, build, deploy, operate).
• Desired Qualifications: Experience translating architectural intent into executable, supportable solutions.
• Desired Qualifications: Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience exploring or applying AI, automation, or intelligent tooling in engineering workflows.
• Desired Qualifications: Ability to identify opportunities where AI can improve solution design, analysis, documentation, or operational efficiency.
• Desired Qualifications: Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate problem-solving, decision-making, and delivery outcomes.
• Desired Qualifications: Mindset oriented toward continuous learning, experimentation, and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Desired Qualifications: Willingness to challenge traditional approaches and incorporate AI-driven capabilities into day-to-day work.