Data Engineer

About the Role 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 Analytics tribe is looking for a Systems Engineer with excellent technical skills combined with a real sense to learn new technologies. Together with the team, you will have the opportunity to build applications on a new Data Management Platform (DMP). The Data Distribution squad, based in Kuala Lumpur (KL), BE and NL contributes to the DMP platform evolution. You will develop, test and deploy new features and components requested by the delivery teams. What to expect?

• Design, develop, test, install and support programs/systems in line with agreed requirements.
• Assist with the analysis of requirements and the development of recommendations as to the systems approach to follow.
• Prepare specifications, codes, tests, deliverables, acceptance criteria, time frames, and prepare and study the technical feasibility and estimates of the proposed systems solutions.
• Analyze the problems, develop, and propose solutions to more senior team members.
• Provide technical assistance to other Swift colleagues and provide guidance to more junior team members in their daily work.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and prepare and give presentations to customers on systems.
• Provide timing/scheduling estimates to project lead and propose corrective actions to timelines.

• 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.

• Must have:
  • Education and experience in programming languages and their design patterns (mainly Java/Python).
  • Experience in continuous integration/delivery build environment: GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Coverage and Static/Dynamic Code Analysis tools.
  • Containers systems (Docker, podman).
  • Experience with Agile Tools (JIRA, ServiceNow, Confluence, BitBucket).
  • Have experience working in an Agile team.
  • Software development tools (Jenkins/Cloudbees, Maven, InteliJ/VisualCode, etc…).
  • Good understanding of the API concept.
  • Basic understanding of Linux OS and scripting language.

• Good to have:
  • Software delivery processes (Agile, Scrum, …).
  • Spring boot.
  • Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, …).
  • Oracle PL/SQL or SQL.
  • Data Governance concept.
  • Financial Message Standards (FIN, ISO20022, …).
  • Exposed to Data Engineering tools (Airflow, NiFi, Trino, Ranger, Collibra, … etc).

• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to work well in both a team and individual environment.
• Quality oriented.
• Open communication.
• Willing to learn new technologies.