RTGS Senior SWIFT AMH Engineer; Specialist

Are you passionate about secure, resilient technology that underpins the UK economy? As a SWIFT Engineer, you'll play a key role in supporting and evolving the Bank's Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system - a critical part of the UK's financial infrastructure! You'll work with in a collaborative, agile team to deliver and support SWIFT messaging services.

Flexible Working Options:

This role is open to flexible working patterns, these may include:

• Flexible start and end time to each day
• Ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments
• A 50% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks
• Compressed hours (subject to approval and policy within the team)
• Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and policy within the team)

A Day in the Role:

Reporting to a Technology Team Lead and working closely with colleagues, you will be responsible for delivery, support, maintenance and operation of the SWIFT AMH/Messaging Gateway components for the RTGS solution. You'll be involved in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, contributing to the delivery of new features and ensuring the tools and methodologies used by the team remain current.

Throughout the day, you'll monitor the Bank's live and UAT financial messaging systems, proactively resolving issues and ensuring performance is maintained. You'll provide technical troubleshooting during incidents, support out-of-hours operations (including Bank Holidays), and help maintain compliance with the Bank's security standards. You'll also coach and mentor junior engineers, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and support.

Role Requirements

The successful candidate should have extensive demonstrable experience with SWIFT applications. If you're passionate about secure, resilient technology and want to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

We're looking for someone who has the following key skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience configuring and supporting one or more of the following SWIFT products:
  • Alliance Connect
  • Alliance Gateway
  • Alliance Web Platform
  • Alliance Messaging Hub
  • Transaction Delivery Agent
  • HSM
• Experience providing technical support and troubleshooting in a live operational environment
• Have a strong understanding of ISO 20022 industry messaging and end to end business flows
• Demonstrable experience working as part of a team to deliver features across technical solutions, focused on SWIFT applications

We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:

• Experience working in agile teams and participating in sprint ceremonies
• Ability to deliver high-quality software components and documentation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to translate requirements into a low-level technical design
• Experience supporting live and UAT environments
• Commitment to adhering to security and operational standards

The SWIFT Engineer role offers fantastic opportunities to work on innovative and tailored technologies within an interesting and highly rewarding environment.

Additional consideration will be given to candidates that can demonstrate:

• Experience with both Windows and Linux platforms
• Experience with automation deployment using Ansible
• Experience with Automated testing

Given the number and wide scope of these technologies we are not expecting you to know every possible technology in use. This is a great opportunity to get involved and learn new tools and technologies.

How this role fits into the wider Bank:

The RTGS system is at the heart of the UK's financial infrastructure, settling around £775bn in payments every day. As part of the RTGS Engineering team, you'll help ensure this vital system remains secure, resilient, and fit for the future. Your work will directly support the Bank's mission to maintain monetary and financial stability in the UK.

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