Sr. Director Platform Engineering - Middleware

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you're passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

As the Director of Middleware, you will serve as both a seasoned technical leader and a people manager, spearheading strategy, architecture, rationalization, and operational excellence across a diverse middleware stack (e.g., IBM MQ, SonicMQ, Confluent Kafka, etc.), along with reporting platforms such as Cognos, Informatica, and Tableau. In this dual capacity, you'll drive strategic middleware rationalization, observability, BAU automation, and champion a culture of innovation and collaboration across teams located in the U.S., U.K., and India.

Key Responsibilities:
Strategic & Technical Leadership

• Co-own and evolve the global middleware strategy to align with enterprise priorities, modernization, and cost optimization.
• Lead technology rationalization and standardization, reducing complexity and improving efficiency across platforms.
• Define and continuously evolve middleware architecture standards, governance frameworks, and lifecycle management best practices.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and business teams to deliver business value and client-first outcomes through middleware capabilities.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure high availability, scalability, and resiliency of middleware platforms supporting mission-critical applications.
• Champion comprehensive observability-standardizing monitoring, logging, alerting, and reporting for entire platform.
• Drive automation of BAU tasks (e.g., deployments, patching, scaling, health checks) to reduce manual effort and risk.
• Oversee incident management and root cause analysis, building a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance, security, and audit alignment across all middleware platforms.

People & Culture Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse global middleware team-balancing technical depth with strong leadership presence.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and service excellence, encouraging experimentation and continuous learning.
• Develop career paths, workforce planning, and succession strategies to build a sustainable and future-ready team.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, translating middleware strategy into business value and measurable outcomes.
• Manage key vendor partnerships (e.g., IBM, Confluent) and evaluate emerging technologies for enterprise readiness.

Qualifications:
Required:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 12+ years of middleware engineering/architecture experience with hands-on technical expertise (IBM MQ, Kafka, etc.).
• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience managing global, cross-functional technology teams of 30+ associates.
• Proven track record of enterprise-level technology rationalization, automation, and modernization programs.
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders while maintaining credibility with engineers.

Preferred:

• Experience with managing Web servers and/or reporting/analytics platforms (Cognos, Informatica, Tableau).
• Deep understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).

Soft Skills:

• Strategic mindset with a hands-on approach.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company-and ultimately a community-that recognizes and celebrates everyone's unique perspective.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: broadridge-JR1076461

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-26T19:13:24