Standards Mapping Developer

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.

Context and Environment

Swift provides a global financial communications platform, standards, products, and services to over 11,000 customers in 215 countries and territories. Our employees are the foundation of this success. Swift has a unique corporate mind-set, where diversity, personal development and networking are actively encouraged. We believe you will appreciate our office culture, which fosters excellence through collaboration and interaction in a community-driven environment.

If you want to be part of our dynamic, multicultural institution with over 2,400 employees of 75 nationalities in 26 offices worldwide, explore the vast opportunities, rewards and internationally competitive packages waiting for you at Swift.

Standards are a cornerstone of the financial industry. They provide a common language for international financial messaging that is unambiguous and machine-readable, enabling efficient automation, reducing costs and mitigating risks. Swift’s Standards and Market Infrastructures group develops financial messaging standards and supporting products and services for the community.

The migration to ISO 20022, supporting richer and more structured data, is central to Swift’s strategy to enable an instant, frictionless, interoperable and inclusive future for payments. The need for reusable software components and applications supporting this standard is now more critical than ever. Today is your opportunity to contribute to this evolution.

The Standards Value-Added Services team develops solutions, reusable components and business-specific libraries for message identification, validation, transformation and visualisation. These components are deployed in critical Swift products and services to enable fast, interoperable financial messaging within Swift and at customer premises.

Responsibilities We are looking for a proactive IT professional with experience in agile software development to implement business-specific message validation and transformation. You will develop, test and support validation and translation artefacts enabling interoperability across the financial ecosystem, mostly using Swift’s message translation and mapping tool, Swift Translator.

You will:* Develop and document custom code, validation rules and business mappings between standard formats, based on specifications co-created with business colleagues.

Review and challenge business requirements from internal and external customers.

Manage specification, development, testing, deployment and support activities with an Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement mindset, ensuring quality and resilience.

Contribute to robust automation testing and operational tools that guarantee Swift-quality deliveries.

Qualifications* Software development and scripting experience (Java, Python, Perl, Ant or similar).

Experience with 4GL/mapping and formal rule definition languages (knowledge of Swift Translator or Trace Transformer is an advantage).

Experience with XSLT and XML-based transformations, as well as tools similar to Oracle Data Integrator or Altova Mapforce

Familiarity with SWIFT standards (MT, ISO 20022), MyStandards, XML, JSON and messaging products.

Precise and structured mindset, even under pressure.

Knowledge of development and agile collaboration tools (Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Cloudbees, etc).

Integration, testing and automation focus.

Agile development and governance experience.

Confident communicator, fluent in English.

Flexibility to adapt quickly to changing requirements.

Education

University degree in scientific or IT domain.

Experience

Young graduates welcome. From 3 to 5 years experience developing, testing and deploying mission-critical software is a plus, ideally in the financial industry using Swift MT or ISO 20022 standards.

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We give you the freedom to be yourselfWe 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.