Job Description

Role: Senior Swift Configuration Analyst

Location: London (3 days/week on site)

IR35: Inside

Rate: £1000/day (Umbrella) MAX

Duration: 6 Months

Security Clearance: SC (Must be eligible for DV)

Demonstrable specialist experience of the following

• SWIFT products
• Alliance Connect
• Alliance Gateway
• Alliance Web Platform
• SWIFT Alliance Messaging Hub
• HSM

We are seeking an experienced senior configuration analyst to join the Financial Messaging Services team (FMS) within the Digital Platforms division of Technology. FMS support and configure third party applications and hardware, primarily products provided by SWIFT. The successful candidate should have extensive previous experience of configuring and supporting SWIFT products.

Detailed Description of the Role:

We are seeking an experienced senior configuration analyst to join the Financial Messaging Services team. From a service perspective, the team are responsible for maintaining and supporting SWIFT product estate which underpin critical financial services within the Banking, Payments and Financial Resilience directorate.

Key areas of responsibility are:

Technical

• Display an ability to provide technical leadership for the development and support of SWIFT services
• Use their technical and business experience to support production and UAT financial messaging systems.
• Provide daily support of the operational Live and UAT financial messaging systems; monitoring performance and ensure full and rapid problem resolution.
• Provide out of hours support, including Bank holidays
• Deliver high quality software components and documentation which conform to FMS guidelines and standards.
• Coordinate operational activity for a set of systems/services. This will include (but is not limited to) failover and backup tests, pen test response/remediation, audit actions, risk and threat registers and security reviews.
• Apply analytical and problem solving skills to incidents, requests and problems (as defined by ITIL)
• Triage calls as they arrive, making initial assessments around impact and urgency to derive priority
• Proactively manage major/significant IT incidents.

Service Improvement

• Proactively seek out system improvements that result in a reduction in support calls
• Implement process changes that improve the service delivered to the business
• Identify improvements that result in increased team performance against Technology’s SLA
• Empower first line colleagues and the business to be able to resolve incidents and requests earlier in the lifecycle

The ideal candidate will have:

• Demonstrable specialist experience of the following SWIFT products
• Alliance Connect
• Alliance Gateway
• Alliance Web Platform
• SWIFT Alliance Messaging Hub
• HSM
• Transaction Delivery Agent

Demonstrable technical experience with the following products

• SWIFT Alliance Access
• SWIFT Security Officer and O2M
• IBM MQ Client
• Both Windows and Linux operating systems

Security Clearance: SC – CANDIDATE MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR SC

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181