Job Description & Details
This is a heavy-duty backend engineering role focused entirely on financial plumbing and message translation using enterprise B2B tools. If you enjoy untangling complex financial data flows and dealing with legacy-meets-modern banking protocols, this position puts you right in the thick of mission-critical payment systems.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
Your day-to-day will revolve around building, maintaining, and debugging massive integration pipelines that process high-stakes financial transactions. You'll be deep in mapping maps, writing translation scripts, and troubleshooting why a specific NACHA file or ISO 20022 message failed to parse correctly at 3 AM. Expect to spend a lot of time collaborating with banking operations and upstream/downstream partners to ensure data integrity across Wire Transfers and Check Processing networks.
The Core Tech Stack
You need absolute fluency in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Transformation Extender (ITX), as these form the non-negotiable backbone of the role. Beyond just knowing the tools, you must deeply understand EDI X12 and EDIFACT standards, alongside modern financial messaging like ISO 20022. The team relies on your expertise to handle strict regulatory requirements and high-volume transaction processing without dropping packets or corrupting payloads.
Interview Expectations
Expect the hiring managers to test your mettle on complex troubleshooting scenarios, such as walking them through how you would isolate and fix a memory leak or a hanging thread in a heavily loaded Sterling business process. They are secretly looking for battle scars here—they want to know you've been paged at midnight for a broken trading partner map and have the methodical debugging discipline to fix it under pressure without panicking.
Application Advice
When updating your resume for this role, drop the generic buzzwords and put your exact years of experience with IBM Sterling Integrator and ITX right at the top. Make sure to explicitly list out the financial formats you've worked with—specifically ISO 20022, NACHA, and X12—so the recruiter's keyword scanner catches them immediately before a human engineer reviews your technical depth.