Cognizant

Lead IBM Sterling Engineer

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2 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead design, development, configuration, integration, migration, enhancement, and support for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling File Gateway, and related components.
  • Onboard and maintain trading partners, communication protocols, file routes, business processes, maps, envelopes, certificates, and mailboxes.
  • Design Sterling maps and complex transformations, validations, and translation logic using Map Editor.
  • Manage high-volume file-transfer and transaction-processing flows across banking applications, partners, payment networks, vendors, and regulatory systems.
  • Configure and support SFTP, FTPS, FTP, AS2, Connect:Direct, HTTPS, MQ, and Web Services integrations.
  • Lead production support, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, monitoring, alerting, and operational improvement.
  • Support upgrades, migrations, patching, environment setup, disaster recovery, platform modernization, release planning, deployments, and post-production validation.
  • Implement secure transfer practices involving encryption, decryption, PGP, certificates, SSL/TLS, key management, and secure authentication.
  • Collaborate with banking, business, operations, infrastructure, network, database, middleware, information security, application, and vendor teams.
  • Provide technical leadership through task allocation, technical reviews, mentoring, issue escalation, and stakeholder discussions.
  • Prepare technical designs, mapping specifications, operational runbooks, deployment plans, and support documentation.
  • Ensure adherence to banking compliance, audit, data-security, and operational-risk requirements.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling File Gateway, Sterling maps, business processes, partner onboarding, mailbox setup, envelope configuration, and protocol configuration.
  • 8+ years of overall IT experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on IBM Sterling B2B Integrator or Sterling File Gateway experience.
  • 2+ years in a technical lead or senior engineer role.
  • Experience handling high-volume file transfers and transaction processing, preferably in banking or financial-services environments.
  • Understanding of banking file exchange, payments, settlement, reconciliation, clearing, regulatory reporting, and downstream integration flows.
  • Experience with EDI, XML, Flat File, CSV, ISO 20022, SWIFT MT/MX, ACH, NACHA, payment files, and other banking-specific formats.
  • Knowledge of SFTP, FTPS, FTP, AS2, HTTPS, Connect:Direct, MQ, Web Services, PGP, SSL certificates, TLS, SSH keys, digital certificates, and key rotation.
  • Knowledge of Linux/Unix commands, shell scripting, SQL queries, and basic database troubleshooting.
  • Ability to troubleshoot Sterling process failures, translation errors, adapter issues, file-routing failures, and partner-connectivity issues.
  • Experience with job scheduling, incident management, problem management, production support, enterprise release management, change management, and ITIL-based support processes.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions, guide junior team members, collaborate with stakeholders, and produce strong technical documentation.
  • Experience in banking, payments, cards, treasury, corporate banking, or capital markets environments is preferred.
  • IBM Sterling B2B Integrator certification or relevant IBM middleware certification is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time role with opportunities to pursue innovative career tracks and professional development.
  • Education and dedicated training opportunities are provided.
  • Compensation, benefits, and wellness packages are offered.
  • Opportunity to collaborate with industry professionals and work with emerging technology trends.

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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value. We build full-stack AI solutions powered by deep industry, process and engineering expertise — embedding an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential and drive tangible outcomes. From strategy to deployment, we help global enterprises move from AI ambition to AI impact and stay ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai | Follow us @cognizant

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