Senior Technical Analyst

SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides a communications platform products and services connecting more than 10000 banking organizations securities institutions and corporate customers across 211 countries. As part of its Instant Frictionless payments strategy SWIFT is rapidly expanding its Data & Analytics capabilities to enhance customer understanding of payments processes.

Role Overview

The Data and Common Application Platform tribe is seeking a Senior Technical Analyst who possesses strong technical abilities leadership qualities and a sense of responsibility. Working collaboratively with the team the successful candidate will help establish the foundations of the new Data Management Platform (DMP) and take part in designing developing testing and deploying features and components to create new Data Products.

The squad is based in both Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and Belgium (La Hulpe).

Role Responsibilities

This position requires a Senior Technical Analyst who will contribute to the technical design and implementation of the Bronze and Silver layers of Swifts Data Platform using the Medallion Architecture. The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of data engineering principles ETL and data modelling concepts and an interest or background in the payments domain. The role involves collaborating closely with business teams and technical engineers to deliver a reliable enriched and integrated common set of tables to enable the creation of business-ready datasets in the Gold layer.

• Translate requirements into actionable data-layer specifications: Convert business functional and nonfunctional requirements into clear analysis outputs and detailed specifications for implementing Bronze (ingestion/raw) and Silver (cleansed/conformed) datasets in a medallion architecture.

• Define data structures and transformation logic: Document source-to-target mappings transformation rules business logic metadata and acceptance criteria for Bronze/Silver pipelines (including schema evolution incremental loads and historical handling).

• Bridge squads and align stakeholders: Act as the glue between the Gold squad (business analysts and consumers) and the Bronze/Silver squad (data engineers) ensuring shared understanding of definitions constraints dependencies and delivery priorities.

• Validate feasibility with hands-on technical awareness: Bring sufficient implementation knowledge to challenge assumptions identify technical constraints (performance latency storage security orchestration) and propose pragmatic solutions aligned with platform standards.

• Investigate data quality and confirm assumptions: Access the data platform directly and write queries to profile data detect anomalies validate data patterns and support root-cause analysis of data quality issues (e.g. completeness uniqueness timeliness).

• Perform technical impact analysis and dependency management: Analyse upstream/downstream impacts of changes (schemas logic sources SLAs) map dependencies across layers and communicate risks and mitigation plans to keep delivery predictable and controlled.

Education

• Minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant software development experience in an international setting.

• Proven expertise in analysis design specifications data engineering and software development practices.

Technical Skills Requirements

Must Have:

• Hands-on experience with Data Engineering data hub data lake and data warehousing concepts.

• Hands-on experience with Agile tools like JIRA Confluence and Bitbucket.

• Hands-on experience with querying language such as SQL or using other engines (Trino Spark )

• Understanding of in programming languages particularly Java and their design patterns.

• Understanding of one or more data management tools such as: Spark Kafka Nifi Airflow.

• Experience with large-scale object storage services (Amazon S3 or equivalent is a plus).

Good to Have:

• Understanding of containerization technologies such as OpenShift and Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of Red Hat Linux.

• Experience with Elasticsearch/Kibana.

Competency Profile

• Adaptability and responsiveness to change.

• Accountability for delivering results.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Time management planning and organizing abilities.

• Ability to thrive in both multi-cultural team and individual environments.

• Quality-oriented approach.

• Engaged and team-oriented attitude.

• Open communication style.

• Ready to perform on-call support.

• Fluent in English.

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 everyones voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

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Dont 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.