Senior Data Engineer

About the RoleSWIFT 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 Senior 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 build the foundations of the new Data Management Platform (DMP).
The foundation squad, based in Kuala Lumpur (KL) and in HQ (BE), contributes to the DMP platform evolution. You will design, develop, test and deploy new features and components requested by the delivery teams. The foundation squad also has the responsibility to share best practices and expertise with the business squads.

You will be responsible for the staffing of your chapter, act as a coach, building and developing your chapter members, understanding and identifying their development needs as well as organizing the resource allocation of chapter members to squads and orchestrate the performance of the chapter.

As part of the engineering leadership, you will own and drive transversal initiatives to evolve and standardise engineering best practices across the tribe.

In the agile context, you will also participate as ‘hands-on’ squad member to contribute to the success of a squad as well as to retain and grow your people manager as well as technical expertise.

• 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?

Qualifications:

• At least 5 to 10 + years of relevant experience in software development in an international setting. 

• Proven experience in Data engineering and Software development practices.   

Technical Skills Requirements:

• Must have:

  • Education and experience in programming languages and their design patterns (mainly Java, Python, Unix Shell scripting)

  • Understanding of containerization technologies like Openshift and Kubernetes

  • Experience with massive object storage services (Amazon S3 storage or equivalent) is a plus

  • Solid understanding of Data Engineering, data hub, data lake and data warehousing concepts

  • 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.

  • Helm Charts / Infrastructure-as-code / Terraform

  • Experience in handling PKI / TLS

Professional Skills Requirements:

• Creativity and innovation

• Adaptability and responsiveness to change

• Take accountability for delivering results

• Strong communication skills, both written and oral

• Time management, planning and organizing

• Ability to work well in both a team and individual environment

• Quality oriented

• Engaged and team oriented

• Open communication

• 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. An environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion, or veteran/military status.