**Introduction** Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business. Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us. **Your role and responsibilities** As a Delivery Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Technology solutions that align with your clients' goals. In this role, you will apply your technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery while leveraging your consultative skills such as problem-solving issue- / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, a team that is client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical, you'll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.  If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to… Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working thru the phases of design, development integration, implementation, migration and product support with a sense of urgency . Agile Planning and Execution: Creating and executing agile plans where you are responsible for installing and provisioning assets, testing, migrating to production, and day-two operations. Technical Solution Workshops: Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops. Building Effective Relationships: Developing successful relationships at all levels —from engineers to CxOs—with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions. Self-Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions. Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team. **Required technical and professional expertise** Key Responsibilities: * Install, configure, and maintain IBM MQ across multiple environments. * Monitor and troubleshoot messaging issues, ensuring high availability and reliability. * Collaborate with developers to optimize message flows and troubleshoot application integration issues. * Implement security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and encryption. * Perform performance tuning, capacity planning, and disaster recovery testing. * Support cloud-based MQ deployments and integrations. * Work with Kubernetes-based environments for containerized MQ deployments. * Create and maintain documentation for configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting. Required Skills: * Strong expertise in IBM MQ administration, installation, and troubleshooting. * Hands-on experience with queue managers, message flows, and clustering. * Ability to work with developers, troubleshoot application-level issues, and suggest optimizations. * Some development knowledge in Java, Python, or other relevant programming languages. * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). * Basic understanding of Kubernetes and containerized deployments. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Experience with IBM MQ on cloud-native platforms. * Familiarity with IBM Integration Bus (IIB) or Apache Kafka. * Knowledge of DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible, or Terraform.