ABOUT US
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,000 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 211 countries. As part of its Instant, Frictionless payments strategy, SWIFT is rapidly expanding its Data & Analytics capabilities to support our customers in this area of understanding payments.
In this context, the Data and Services tribe is looking for a Data Engineer with excellent technical skills combined with a real sense of leadership and responsibility. Together with the team, you will have the opportunity to join the DMP Sourcing squad, based in Kuala Lumpur (KL) and HQ (BE) and NL, contribute to deliver high quality data analytics, by automagically collecting confidential transaction data and providing well-governed near real-time streams, in a constantly decreasing lead-time for analysis and product teams
What to expect?
- Design, develop, test, install and support programs/systems. Support projects proposals on the basis of cost/benefit justification interfacing with stakeholders across functional and geographical lines.
- Meet with customers to understand needs and requirements and make recommendations on best practice systems solutions for small to medium size/complexity/risk projects.
- Analyze detail systems factors: input/output requirements, information flow, hardware and software requirements, alternative approaches, etc.
- Validate alternative problem management proposals and make decisions on solutions.
- Provide technical assistance to other SWIFT colleagues and assist in resolving problems reported by less senior team members.
- Provide technical guidance to customers and act as mentor to less senior team members. May give presentations to management and customers.
- May prepare and complete systems documentation and operating procedures.
- May lead design review meetings for small to medium size/complexity/risk projects.
- May coordinate and monitor the activities, such as schedules and costs, of a small project team.
- Evaluate and recommend technical feasibility and estimates of the proposed systems solutions.
What will make you successful?
- 3 - 5 years of proven experience in software development in an international setting.
- University degree in computer science or related field. Or equivalent work experience.
Technical Skills Requirements:
- Must have:
- Strong proficiency in Java (preferably Jave 11 or newer)
- Education and experience in programming languages and their design patterns
- Has experience in developing spring-boot applications or back-end systems (. e.g. API)
- Experience with massive object storage services (Amazon S3 storage or equivalent) is a plus
- Experience in continuous integration/delivery build environment: GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Coverage and Static/Dynamic Code Analysis tools.
- Experience with Agile Tools (JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, Github)
- Good to have:
- Apache Data management tools (Spark, Kafka, NiFi, Airflow)
- Red Hat Linux
- Elasticsearch/Kibana and Oracle databases.
- Understanding of containerization technologies like Openshift and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with data modeling, ETL pipelines, and batch/stream data processing.
- Solid understanding of Data Engineering, data hub, data lake and data warehousing concepts
Professional Skills Requirements:
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Ability to work well in both a team and an individual environment
- Quality oriented
- Open communication
- Willing to Learn New Technologies
- Has experience doing on-call support
What we offer
We put you in control of career
We give you a competitive package
We help you perform at your best
We help you make a difference
We give you the freedom to be yourself
We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.
If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us to request accommodation.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.
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What We Do
SWIFT is a global member-owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services.
We provide our community with a platform for messaging and standards for communicating, and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration, identification, analysis and regulatory compliance.
Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories.
SWIFT also brings the financial community together – at global, regional and local levels – to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest or concern.
For more information, visit www.swift.com or follow us on Twitter: @swiftcommunity
