SWIFT Engineer

Title: SWIFT Engineer

Duration: 6 Months Contract

Location: 570 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07310, United States & Coppell, Texas, with the zip code 75019

Pay Rate: $30/Hr to $65/Hr to 75/Hr

Shift Timing (Day/ Evening/ Night): Day

Job Summary:

• The DS (Distributed Systems) Engineering and Integration team is primarily responsible for engineering and supporting select middleware solutions on distributed Linux and appliances. Products used and supported in this effort include but are not limited to:
• SWIFT Alliance Access, Gateway, SNL, RMA, HSM and TDA
• Support of ISO 15022 & ISO 20022 message transmission through our SWIFT infrastructure
• Client Appia and TradeScope FIX (Financial Information eXchange) software.
• Open-source QuickFIX FIX (Financial Information eXchange) software.
• Responsible for design, installation, configuration and support of a set of software products and working with other infrastructure teams (Linux, Networking, Data Center), Application Development and Client Connectivity to implement, maintain and debug solutions using those products.
• Participate in weekend implementations and on-call rotations and disaster recovery.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced production support and assistance to development staff in troubleshooting application issues with respect to the use of SWIFT, FIX, and Linux. Perform root cause analysis.
• Installation, configuration, maintenance, debugging and resolving SWIFT Alliance product implementations and FIX (Appia, TradeScope, QuickFIX) on Linux. Maintain stability of the production environment.
• Provide immediate support for production SWIFT Alliance implementations and Appia, QuickFIX software instances.
• Participate in weekend on-call support rotations.
• Work with development staff and teammates to architect implementation and support solutions.
• Use of Jira, Bit Bucket, Ansible for project and software management.
• Provide support for weekend implementations and Disaster Recovery tests.
• Manage patching, upgrades and other various infrastructure operations on SWIFT and FIX servers.
• Create and maintain clearly detailed system documentation and diagrams to be used as job aids and knowledge transfer material. Provide cross-training to team members.
• Analyze system performance and capacity statistics. Provide recommendations.
• Maintain, author and debug administrative utilities using shell programs (bash, perl).
• Conformance to client s Incident, Change and Problem management policies and procedures.
• Work both independently and in a Team as an energetic team member.
• Lead, provide and implement automated solutions.
• Recommend process and technological changes.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.
• Effectively complete complex projects and installations within aggressive time frames and budget parameters.
• Identify, define, and implement observability patterns across the SWIFT ecosystem our team maintains.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with SWIFT and FIX platforms.
• Strong knowledge of SWIFT Alliance Access products and Client Appia, Open-source QuickFIX.
• Experience in supporting high volume SWIFT ISO 20022 traffic.
• Working knowledge SWIFT messaging platforms
• Good knowledge of SWIFT Alliance message routing
• Good administrator knowledge of Linux and networking with good command over any scripting language such as Shell, Perl, Python, etc.

Required Experience:

• Experience in handling Critical and Major production incidents.
• Hands-on experience in support of a real-time trading environment
• Good knowledge of solutions that support applications using high-performance messaging/middleware.
• Understanding of SWIFT platform components and connectivity support.
• Experience developing automated solutions in a distributed computing environment.
• Strong ability to diagnose and fix problems with middleware SWIFT and FIX products.
• Experience in cloud environments like AWS, Google Cloud Platform & etc.
• Strong ability to multitask.
• Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills.
• Mainframe knowledge a plus.

About our Company: -

22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.

Recognized among Best Company to Work For by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer" and s & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply."

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.