The Bank is investing in building an experienced engineering team who will be responsible for developing and operating the renewed RTGS service. Your role will be responsible for influencing the design and implementation of an updated payment gateway solution. You will work closely with other technology teams and domains to lead the work to automate infrastructure provision and embed Agile development methodology.

As the Swift Technical Assurance SME you will ultimately be responsible for ensuring that design of the new SWIFT estate and associated interfaces are fit for purpose. This includes steering and supporting crucial design decisions, with a focus on ensuring that the banks solutions are supportable long term.   Since the Renewal programme is being delivered in partnership with a delivery partner, we will be looking for you to balance the short term programme interests against the banks longer term interests, with the ability to operate at a senior level, combining knowledge and people skills to help lead on key decisions.

You will be accountable for a range of activities, including: 

• Able to pioneer and own technical expertise that spans all areas of the Banks external payment interfaces.
• In the context of our agile methodology, help teams agree and meet delivery commitments.
• Being involved in the supplier processes (deep dives, vendor assessments etc).
• Provision of critical insight on designs and code reviews at a low level of technical detail.
• Delivering and presenting Proofs of Concept variants to users.
• Phasing/Migration planning: Contributing and identifying key constraints around migration from as-is to new.
• Managing multiple tasks and using sound judgment when prioritizing.
• Able to articulate a vision for the evolution of the Banks Payment Gateway interfaces.
• Providing input and technical assurance of messaging and interface designs associated to payment messaging.
• Review and management of road maps and change activity associated to payment messaging systems.
• Provisioning and ongoing maintenance of interface and solution designs.
• Engagement and management of external vendors concerning technical roadmaps and evolving functionality.
• Mentoring and coaching in support of the Banks wider SWIFT and messaging capabilities.

Essential Criteria

• Ability to work in an environment where you are empowered and trusted, and looked to as an expert in your field.
• Ability to think strategically, using judgement and prioritising effectively.
• Collegiate and political awareness, to be able to understand and work through conflicting requirements. 
• Ability to understand highly complex architecture, infrastructure, primary and secondary corporate wide systems and business processes.
• Passionate about technology, encouraging, motivating and positive attitude who does not hesitate taking up any challenge.
• Exceptional analytical skills and ability to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions.
• Ability to leverage technology to deliver business value
• Must be independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environment
• Experience working with large blue chip System Integrators
• Technical Competencies
  • Significant experience with SWIFT products and interfaces (e.g. SWIFT Alliance Messaging Hub, SWIFT Alliance Gateway).
  • Significant experience with ISO 20022 messaging standards and services (e.g. SWIFT Alliance Messaging Hub, SWIFT Alliance Gateway).
  • Understanding of RTGS and CHAPS messaging interfaces and schemas.
  • Experience with large IT projects.
  • Understanding of networking protocols, basic firewall rules.
  • Experience of building and operating highly available, mission critical architecture, distributed systems and micro services architecture, containerisation with underlying Devops strategy and practices.
  • Broad experience with financial, accounting or payments systems, products and services supporting the payment services in the financial industry.
• Leadership Competencies
  • Strong people leadership experience, including the ability to build and implement a shared vision and delivery of outcomes.
  • Ownership
  • Collaboration
  • Decisiveness
  • Influencing

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software or Electronic Engineering or other related discipline.
• Broad experience with financial, accounting or payments systems, products and services supporting the payment services in the financial industry.
• Working understanding of Technology Automation Tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

The Bank values diversity and inclusion – we want to reflect the society we serve better, we want the best people to work for us and we want our workplace to be inclusive.  We value all forms of diversity, including but not limited to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion and sexual orientation.  One way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks, which are summarised here.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive working environment, and are open to considering how the role might be carried out with flexible working.  This role is therefore open to flexible working patterns.

Where a role can be carried out from home, we are working towards colleagues spending at least half of their time in the office, so that we can all benefit from working together in person, while maintaining the flexibility offered by home working. We expect colleagues to spend a minimum of 40% of their working time in the office per month.  Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them and their team.

We are also committed to making adjustments for candidates and employees where possible, and have partnered with external expert organisations to support us in this.  We are a member of the Disability Confident scheme, summarised here, and people who wish to apply under this scheme should check the box in the ‘Candidate Personal Information’ under the ‘Disability Confident Scheme’ section of the application.

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The Bank of England is a distinctive institution and our rewards are one of the things that set us apart. As well as enjoying a competitive salary you will work in a collaborative, inclusive environment, with a subsidised restaurant, flexible working opportunities and plenty of wellbeing initiatives.  

This specific role offers a base salary from £83,780 - £106,200 per annum, along with our comprehensive benefits package as follows:

•    A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
•    A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
•    A 7% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits. (Note that from April 2023 and for the Benefits year 2023/24, this will increase to 8%)
•    26 days annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits. (Note: effective from April 2023)
•    Private medical insurance and income protection.