Designer

Join us as a Solution Designer – Sterling File Gateway, to help shape and enhance our secure file transfer and cryptography services that underpin critical business operations. This role sits within a specialist engineering function focused on delivering resilient, high‑performance integration solutions. You’ll work closely with cross‑functional teams to design, evolve, and maintain secure connectivity services, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of key enterprise platforms.

To be successful as a Solution Designer – Sterling File Gateway, you should have experience with:

• Proficient, well‑rounded knowledge of secure file transfer protocols such as SFTP, FTPs, IBM Connect: Direct, along with real‑time messaging technologies like MQ.
• Practical, hands‑on experience integrating Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), including exposure to PKCS#11, Java Cryptography Extension (JCE), and KMIP‑based interactions.
• Established capability applying advanced testing methodologies such as TDD, BDD, and automated testing frameworks.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Awareness of ITIL‑based release and change processes.
• Experience with API lifecycle oversight, developer portals, sandbox environments, and scaling federated API ecosystems.
• Advanced troubleshooting capabilities for diagnosing performance issues related to latency and throughput.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role will be based in Knutsford.