IBM MQ Engineer and Agile Product Owner | SEB, Solna

Drive reliable messaging services while shaping priorities and delivery for a business-critical integration platform.

Since SEB was founded in 1856, our focus on customers and long-term relationships has been at the heart of our success. We aim to drive positive change by providing capital to help everyone reach their goals and accelerate progress towards a sustainable tomorrow. As a leading financial services group in northern Europe, we'll help you grow and empower you to take on more responsibility to create a real difference. Welcome to SEB. 
 
About the role:

As an IBM MQ Engineer and Agile Product Owner at SEB, you will join a team responsible for secure and reliable enterprise messaging services. You will combine hands-on platform engineering with ownership of the team backlog, priorities and roadmap. Working with developers, architects, infrastructure teams and stakeholders, you will improve automation, resilience and lifecycle management while ensuring that delivery decisions balance business value, risk, compliance, operational stability and technical sustainability. 

Your main responsibilities will include: 

• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot and improve IBM MQ environments across the service lifecycle.  

• Plan and coordinate upgrades, patching, migrations, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery and security improvements.  

• Own and prioritize the team backlog and roadmap, define clear outcomes and acceptance criteria, and keep stakeholders aligned.  

• Translate business, architectural, security and operational needs into realistic and executable deliveries.  

• Drive automation, monitoring, documentation, incident follow-up and continuous improvement of the messaging service. 

To thrive in this role, we believe you have:

• Practical experience administering and troubleshooting IBM MQ in enterprise environments.  

• Knowledge of queue managers, channels, clustering or high-availability concepts, security, certificates and network connectivity.  

• Experience with Linux, scripting or automation, monitoring and structured incident and problem management.  

• Experience managing a product backlog and priorities in an agile team; Product Owner experience is strongly preferred.  

• Clear communication in English and the ability to challenge unclear requirements and make transparent trade-offs. 

What we offer:

• Entrepreneurial Scandinavian environment    

• Hybrid work model, meaning remote work is possible up to 2 days/week 

• International opportunities and working environment  

• Attractive compensation and access to SEB staff banking with exclusive benefits  

Do you want to be part of SEB?  

It is our fundamental belief that inclusion and diversity is crucial for our future success. We strive to have an inclusive, value-driven culture where employees feel valued, respected, and involved irrespective of who they are, what they believe or where they come from. 

We encourage you to submit your application no later than 30th of November via the link in this advertisement. Kindly note that we do not accept applications via email.

Please be aware that our final candidates undergo background checks, a process that includes for example identity control, verification of qualifications, credit checks, company engagements and history of crime. In some cases, we also apply random drug checks. During employment, employees within SEB can also expect to undergo recurring background checks. 

Learn more about working at SEB on our Career website or through our Career podcasts. 

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