About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Data and Common Application Platform (D&CAP) Tribe supporting and shaping the Product organization.

Based in Belgium you will operate as a technical leader with portfoliolevel impact combining deep handson expertise with strategic ownership of software delivery platform engineering and SDLC evolution. You will play a key role in defining driving and scaling modern engineering practices including automation and AIenabled capabilities across multiple teams and products.

This role goes beyond delivery within a single team. You will act as a technical authority influencing architecture engineering standards and delivery practices across the portfolio and contributing to broader tribelevel initiatives.

You will work in a highly collaborative international environment partnering with engineers architects product managers security and operations across Europe and APAC.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Own and drive technical direction for software delivery and SDLC practices across products and tribes.
• Act as a technical authority for complex system design architectural tradeoffs and longterm sustainability decisions.
• Balance shortterm delivery needs with longterm platform and operational excellence.

Software Delivery & Platform Engineering

• Lead the design development testing deployment and support of critical applications and platform components.
• Define and evolve CI/CD standards and reusable pipelines enabling secure reliable and scalable delivery across teams.
• Drive automationfirst approaches across build test deployment monitoring and operations to reduce manual effort and operational risk.

CrossTeam Impact & Enablement

• Coach and mentor senior engineers raising the overall engineering bar and fostering technical excellence.
• Promote and enable innersourcing and knowledge sharing across teams and locations.
• Drive alignment with security compliance and reliability requirements in partnership with security and operations teams.

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate closely with product architecture testing security and operations stakeholders to ensure solutions meet functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Produce and maintain highquality technical documentation and deliver presentations for internal stakeholders and where relevant customers.
• Operate effectively in a global agile environment spanning multiple time zones.

What Will Make You Successful

Professional Skills

• Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously with broad accountability and to influence without direct authority.
• Strong customer and quality mindset with a focus on delivering measurable business and operational outcomes.
• Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills particularly in complex distributed environments.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal English) with the ability to explain complex technical topics to diverse audiences.
• Proven experience working in largescale agile environments across distributed teams.

Technical Skills

• 8 years of experience as a Software Engineer DevOps Engineer or similar role with significant leadership responsibility.
• Expertise in Java along with scripting and automation using Python Bash and Ansible.
• Deep experience with container platforms and orchestration (Podman Docker OpenShift) and infrastructure automation frameworks.
• Strong mastery of CI/CD practices and tooling including Git GitLab Maven Jenkins Nexus or equivalent.
• Experience with infrastructure and pipeline test automation.
• Solid background in monitoring logging and observability platforms (Prometheus Grafana ELK stack or similar).

What We Offer

• Join a company that underpins the worlds financial system connecting over 11500 institutions across 200 countries.
• Work on missioncritical platforms with global scale security and reliability requirements.
• Strong culture of internal mobility and career development supporting growth at senior and expert levels.
• Access to a rich ecosystem of learning and development programs to deepen both technical and leadership expertise.
• Competitive marketaligned compensation with structured merit and performancebased rewards.
• Be part of an organization shaping the future of secure instant frictionless crossborder transactions through advanced platforms APIs and datadriven services.

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.