Application Developer/Programmer

Messaging Services are the core business at Swift that carry the world's financial messages securely and reliably. They provide messaging platforms with message exchange, validation, tracking of transactions, translation and network connectivity supporting the global financial industry.

The team is responsible to deliver messaging projects and services, design, develop and integrate solutions on FIN, SwiftNet (InterAct, FileAct, Instant), and MI solutions such as MI-Channel, T2S, TIPS, and ESMIG.

Operational excellence is the key to help achieve highly secure, reliable and high-quality core messaging services to our community of customers for their business.

As a AI Software Engineer you will be working closely with a small development group to internal customers, technical analysts and other engineers to develop your product/service. You will ensure the gathering of technical market insights and customer needs, combine that with your expertise and you will stay focus on continuous improvement to deliver key product improvements to achieve customer satisfaction having the end-to-end ownership of your daily activities. You will be involved in all stages of software development, being front-end development, back-end development, database integrations, network and hosting management, user interface, user experience, and back-end server management.

As a Software Engineer you will:

• Design, develop, test, install and support programs/systems,
• Support projects proposals based on 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,
• Analyse 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.
• Also handle the end-2-end system integration to improve the product overall quality
  
  

Additional responsibilities can leads to:

• Provide technical guidance to customers and act as mentor to less senior team members,
• Give presentations to management and customers,
• Prepare and complete systems documentation and operating procedures,
• Lead design review meetings for small to medium size/complexity/risk projects,
• Evaluate and recommend technical feasibility and estimates of the proposed systems solutions.
  
  

Experience & Education

• University degree in Computer Science or related disciplines/equivalent work experience
• At least 5 years of professional software development and maintenance experience
  
  

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in C programming language and object-oriented design skills
• Open to work on other programing language like Java, Python, C etc
• Storning knowledge with Oracle or other RDBMS with exposer to PL/SQL.
• Ready to work on a Test Driven development environment
• Knowledge of LINUX operating system, GIT source code management, storage environments, file systems and network protocols
• Knowledge of CI/CD
• Knowledge of Elastic Search
• Knowledge of Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence
• Understanding of Agile & DevOps
  
  

Soft Skills

• Adaptability and responsiveness to change
• Strong communication skills (both written and oral)
• Team player, willing to work in multicultural environment
• Ability to influence, work effectively across all levels and transversally; challenger, curious and a positive mindset
• Capacity to innovate, think out of the box and connect the dots: challenge the status quo, and think out of the box for alternative/most efficient solutions
• Customer oriented: making customers and their needs a primary focus
• Agile experience is an asset
  
  

Additional skills/experience linked to the role:

• Ability to multitask, prioritize and deal with uncertainty - Planning and organizing are key
• Get an end-to-end view of the product and process
• Ability to manage large and complex projects
• Take accountability for delivering results
• Open to work in various stage of the Software Development Cycle (i.e., Development/Testing/Qualification/Release and Deployment)
  
  

Swift is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communication platform, products and services to connect more than 10,000 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 200 countries.

Driven by unprecedented regulatory pressure, increased customer expectations and fierce competition, the financial services landscape is transforming rapidly and Swift just renewed its ambition to deliver instant and frictionless transactions. Delivering on the strategy implies an increased focus on data and data capabilities as it requires an easier access to more and better data in a secure way. It also requires more advanced analytics to improve the customer experience, remove obstacles on the customer journey, and evolve from retrospective reporting to real-time, behaviour-driven engagement.

Skills:

Bitbucket Yes

C 5 Years Professional (4-5)

CICD Yes

Communication Yes

Design 3 Years Minimum 2 Years

Documentation Yes

Finance 3 Years Junior (1-3)

Functional Test 4 Years Junior (1-3)

gRPC 5 Years Professional (4-5)

Oracle 3 Years Junior (1-3)