Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) Delivery Consultant

IBM

IBM

Accounting & Finance

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Apr 8, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Delivery Consultant specializing in Payment settlement systems for Banking within IBM's Automation Platform, you will provide clients with world-class services to optimize the configuration, deployment, adoption, usage, and analysis of their Payment settlement system based on IBM's Financial Transaction Manager. This role involves delivering expert consulting services to help clients achieve their business objectives through effective use of IBM's Financial Transaction Manager (FTM).

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Deliver Expert Consulting Services: Provide world-class consulting services to clients, helping them optimize their payment settlement product configurations, deployments, adoptions, usage, and analysis to achieve business objectives.

• Optimize Client Solutions: Collaborate with clients to understand their business needs and develop tailored solutions using FTM, including Cloudability, Kubecost, Apptio, and other related technologies.

• Drive Solution Adoption: Drive the adoption and usage of FTM, ensuring clients achieve maximum value from their investments and meet their business objectives.

• Analyze Client Environments: Analyze client environments to identify opportunities for optimization and provide recommendations for improvement, leveraging expertise in Payment Settlement systems leveraging IBM's FTM.

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

This role performs direct customer services in support of SOA-based and cloud-based Payments Integration systems. The duties of this role will include design and implementa-tion of solutions based on customer requirements relating to Payments processing using products in the IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) family.

The candidate should have strong experience in designing, implementing, and integrat-ing, applications for financial messaging ideally based on IBM's FTM product family. Ex-perience with an EAI, Message Hub, SOA and/or Microservices environment is also bene-ficial. The candidate should have 5+ years’ experience in one of these areas.

The candidate should be skilled with IBM App Connect Enterprise Services and Liberty and be fluent in Java development and Financial Messaging.

The candidate should have at least 5+ years of experience in DevOps pipeline develop-ment in legacy WebSphere environments and private or public cloud environments.

The candidate should have multiple years of experience in development and deploying of containerized, cloud-based, applications in private or public cloud environments, experi-ence with OpenShift is desired.

The candidate may also be required to participate in pre-sales activities for current and potential IBM Customers and help cultivate the trusted partnership that IBM seeks with all Customers.

Core Requirements

• Strong programming background with emphasis on systems integration using Java or IBM App Connect

• Experience with model driven development and configuration processes

• Experience with standards based meta-data such as B2B or financial transaction pro-cessing standards (EDI, SWIFT, ISO 20022, X9.100-187)

• Experience with enterprise-critical solution development where performance, scalabil-ity and high availability are core requirements

• Ability to represent the team and be a key player in an integrated team

• Ability to keep key stakeholders appraised of progress and issues

• Mentor and coach customer staff

• Effective written and oral communicator

• Availability to travel as project/customer requirements demand

• Customer facing/consulting experience

• Technical Skills/Certifications

Languages: Java, ESQL, XML, XSD, XSTL

Integrated Development Tools: ATOM, RAD, Eclipse, Visual Studio, XCode & Android Studio

Operating Systems: UNIX, AIX, Linux, RedHat OpenShift

Workflow Orchestration & Transformation platforms: IBM FTM, IBM App Connect, HCL Transfor-mation Extender, etc.

Middleware & Security: IBM WebSphere, IBM Liberty, Weblogic, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, VISIBro-ker, IBM MQ, Active MQ, Open SAML, Microsoft Active Directory, Lotus Domino LDAP, Entrust True-pass

Products: IBM FTM, Sterling MFT, IBM Infosphere CDC, PEG

Cloud Providers: IBM, AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle

Beneficial Requirements

• 5+ years of payment (US Check, Canadian Cheque, US ACH, CPA Standard 05, TCH-IP, Zelle, FedWire, SWIFT, CBPR+, etc) processing development and sup-port experience.

• 5+ years of payment processing operations experience.

• Working knowledge of legacy check processing applications, including IBM Pay-ments Director, IBM Check Processing Control System (CPCS), and SuperMICR or other image-based check processing applications

Preferred technical and professional experience

• IT Service Management Knowledge: Familiarity with IT service management principles and practices, including ITIL, to support the delivery of high-quality services to clients.

• Cloud Computing Expertise: Experience with cloud computing platforms, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, to support the deployment and management of IT Automation & FinOps products.

• Scripting and Automation Skills: Knowledge of scripting languages, such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash, to automate tasks and workflows, and integrate IT Automation & FinOps products with other systems.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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