Job Description

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.

What to Expect

Operations responsibility (Core):

• Deploy changes, patches, and releases in test and production environments.
• Prepare, present, test and execute changes in Production - requiring on‑site presence 3 days per week
• Perform occasional Production changes outside business hours (± once per month).
• Log, investigate and resolve/escalate operational issues occurring in test and production systems.
• Ensure high availability, data integrity, and security through appropriate controls and validation.
• Participate in change planning and risk mitigation activities.
• Stay up to date on DevOps tools, SRE practices, modern deployment techniques, and industry trends.
• Suggest improvements to increase efficiency, quality, and operational robustness.

Development responsibility:

• Work on an application distributed across multiple data centers, built on microservices architecture with Apache Kafka for synchronous replication.
• Use proven technologies such as Java, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift to deliver 24/7 availability and resiliency.
• Develop, test (including automated unit and integration tests), and support cloud-native applications following DevOps and DevSecOps best practices.

What Will Make You Successful?

Relevant Experience

• Software Engineer: Minimum 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Senior Software Engineer: Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience.

Professional Skills

• Customer-oriented and quality mindset – delivering true customer value is at the heart of what we do.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills – vocal and proactive in discussions.
• Collaborative mindset – embrace and enhance the squad way of working.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to execute complex workstreams independently with minimal supervision.
• Autonomous and adaptable – comfortable with change and technical challenges.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).

Technical Skills

• Strong hands‑on experience with Linux systems (RedHat preferred).
• Experience with continuous delivery technologies: Jenkins, Git, Maven, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes, Kibana, OpenShift, Ansible, ArgoCD
• Experience with databases ( Oracle, H2) and data modelling.
• Understanding of SSL/TLS, HTTP/S, XML (schema, XSLT)
• Knowledge of distributed frameworks ( Kafka, Zookeeper).
• Comfortable collaborating with Java development teams (reading logs, understanding stack traces, deployment artifacts, etc.).

Nice-to-Have (Bonus Skills)

• SWIFT Alliance products (Alliance Access, Alliance Gateway, Swiftnet Link) knowledge/experience.
• SWIFT messaging formats knowledge/experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and running distributed systems.

What we offer

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.

We are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact accessibility-Sysgroup@swift.com or indicate this in your application.

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All requests are confidential and will not affect your candidacy.

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.