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.   

Overview:

SWIFT is a global leader in international payments, developing world class solutions that serve the banking community, securities trading and most very large corporations worldwide. Every day, we transfer close to half of the world’s GDP in value through our systems. As the financial services industry demands innovation and acceleration, our strategy over the next two years and beyond is to evolve our capabilities to enable seamless, frictionless and instant transactions from one account to another, anywhere in the world.

To reach this goal, SWIFT is becoming a more agile, data-driven organisation. We want to enable the production, access, mining and delivery of data in a highly secure environment as well as developing a standardized analytical environment to enable analytics at scale.

The data and services tribe is looking for talented individuals to help us build the next generation of our data products and services. If you want to have direct impact on how the world adapts to the changes in technology and have an affinity with financial services, then the SWIFT data and services tribe is a place for you.

We are looking for an ambitious, talented, dynamic and self-driven Data Engineer to join our Data Science (DSC) squad. The DSC squad’s mission is to give customers the ability to quickly integrate high quality data insights into their environments by defining a new data consumption model and advanced analytics services. This includes data quality services leveraging transaction data to reduce friction by using machine learning techniques in a production environment (ML Ops).

The Data Science squad in the data and services tribe is a great learning environment, where you will have a rare chance to be deeply involved in the shaping the future of global financial landscape. This is an opportunity, for an ambitious team player who enjoys a combination of strategic thinking, technical and analytical skills and has a keen interest to engage with ongoing developments in the financial world.

Key activities

• Lead the creation of a productization framework for DnS data models enhancing our analytics solutions
• Interface with business stakeholders and Data Science teams to provide solutions and advice on data infrastructure needs, statistical options, data protection options and ensure optimal product delivery.
• Lead engineering teams to improve the way we productise and operate AI/ML models.
• Collaborate with Innovation team to on-board and test in our data systems the ML platform the Innovation team is currently rolling out

Critical skills required

While working as a Data Scientist/Engineer contributing to solutions development, you will have to demonstrate:

• Skills in translating business needs into well-defined specifications and design.
• Recognition as a technical expert able to select the best technical option in terms of delivery and operations
• Capability to make things happen, from the business opportunities to a working solution
• Outstanding conceptual thinking, project management with leadership, strong autonomy, pro-active mindset and open communication
• Proven experience of using data-centric approaches to complex business situations
• Demonstrate a can-do attitude and the ability to react quickly to identified opportunities
• Outstanding communication skills with proven capability to make innovation happen in highly regulated environment

Professional knowledge and expertise

• A deep understanding of data science and engineering concepts including business intelligence, data ingestion, data privacy protection, stream processing, statistical analysis, visualization
• Hands-on experience with the data science ecosystem including MLOps.

Technologies include but are not limited to Oracle, No-SQL, Elasticsearch, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Python, R, MicroStrategy, TensorFlow, Auto ML, Scikit-learn, MLFlow…)

• Experience with setting up and maintaining data pipelines. Data platforms and cloud experience are a plus.
• Experience in AI/ML models productization and lifecycle is a plus, including continuous training, deployment, monitoring and model feedback loops.
• Experience in NLP techniques is a plus
• An interest in macroeconomics related to the financial industry, insights in the SWIFT portfolio and affinity with the financial services sector is a plus
• Good communication skills along with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams
• Team player with personal drive
• Between 4 and 8 years of experience in a similar role or function

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. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us to request accommodation.

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.