Lead Data Engineer

About the role

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. Company & Department description Swift is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,800 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in over 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to drive innovation and reliability in the financial industry, supporting our members with cutting-edge solutions and collaborative expertise. 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. We are 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 & Common Platform Applications tribe is a place for you. We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Data Engineer to architect, develop and maintain business use-cases. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Airflow, Spark, Starburst, Delta Lake and S2 and a strong background in testing and quality assurance using Jira XRay. This role requires leadership capabilities to guide a team of engineers and collaborate closely with business analysts, platform and business stakeholders. The squad is based in both Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and Belgium (La Hulpe).