Data Engineer Lead

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 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.

What to expect

• Design, develop, test, install and support programs/systems in line with agreed requirements.

• Quality is part of everything you do

• Develop and maintain technical documentation.

• Design and implement integration and automated tests

• Assist with the analysis of requirements and the development of recommendations as to the systems approach to follow.

• Prepare specifications, tests, deliverables, acceptance criteria, time frames, etc. for software tasks

• Review designs, code, unit test and technical documentation created by other developers.

• Analyze problems, develop and propose solutions to more senior team members.

• Prepare and study the technical feasibility and estimates of the proposed systems solutions

• Work collaboratively with other team members and provide guidance to more junior team members.

• Develop and maintain technical documentation, prepare and give presentations to other team members, management and customers.

• Provide coaching and training to more junior team members.

• Provide timing/scheduling estimates to team leader and propose corrective actions to timelines when necessary

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with solutions delivery peers and other IT Delivery partners.

• Demonstrate customer centricity by working closely together with the internal customer.

• Organize an efficient handover through high quality documentation and training.

What will make you successful

Qualifications:

• At least 10 + years' of relevant experience and at least last 2 years working as a Technical Lead

• 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:

• Leadership

• 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

For more info on the role, you may reach to the

R ecruiter for this role, Sobasri Sinaiah Apac Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Hiring Manager for this role, Steven Tang Chapter Lead at Swift

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.

Swift doesn’t stand still. We are constantly evolving and tirelessly innovating. Working at the intersection of finance and technology is a very exciting place to be right now. 

Swift is transforming cross-border payments, making them faster and more transparent than ever before. We are the way the world moves value — every instant of every day, in almost every country.

We are proud that what we do has a critical impact on the global financial community and touches almost every aspect of the financial world. So, what you do at Swift has real impact too — an impact that matters every day. Which is why you matter to us.

Joining Swift gives you unparalleled exposure to knowledge, expertise and technologies. If you have what it takes, you’ll be able to take on different career paths and have the opportunity to work in teams, departments and disciplines in countries around the world. 

Swift is unique. There is no other organisation like ours in the world driving the long-term future of the financial ecosystem. You’ll be surrounded by bright, customer-focused and intellectually curious people in a collaborative, friendly, open and inclusive environment. 

At Swift we are trusted every instant. Everything we do has an impact that matters. And as a member of our team, you are trusted to make your impact every day.