Senior Swift Specialist

**Senior SWIFT Specialist - Vilnius, Lithuania**
Are you an experienced technologist with strong expertise in SWIFT messaging systems? Do you thrive in complex, distributed environments where reliability, security, and precision are critical? Are you ready to take on a key technical role ensuring the integrity and performance of global financial messaging platforms? Join us as a Senior SWIFT Messaging Technology Engineer.

**Western Union powers your pursuit.**

**Role Responsibilities**

- Manage and support SWIFT messaging infrastructure, including system connections, jobs, queries, and requests.
- Oversee platform management and operational changes to ensure secure, efficient, and uninterrupted messaging services.
- Collaborate with engineering teams across global development centers to deliver solutions aligned with business and compliance requirements.
- Conduct thorough code reviews, estimate engineering effort, and plan implementations with cross-functional impacts.
- Share responsibility for engineering support, releases, and incident management.

**Role Requirements**

- **Willingness and ability to relocate to Vilnius, Lithuania if you are currently based abroad.**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years of professional experience, or Master’s with 4+ years of experience.
- Proven expertise in SWIFT systems (must-have).
- Strong proficiency in Linux environments, including commands, infrastructure, and troubleshooting.
- Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, OOP, and design principles.
- Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages (Java, C++, etc.) and design patterns.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to thrive in fast-paced, iterative environments.
- Experience with unit testing and mocking frameworks.

Nice to Have

- Banking or financial services background, with exposure to SWIFT integration in enterprise platforms.
- Experience with web technologies (Java/J2EE, XML, JSON, Web Services, Node.js, JavaScript).
- Knowledge of RDBMS and data ingestion; NoSQL experience a plus.
- Familiarity with Agile, TDD, and CI/CD practices.
- Hands-on experience with high-performance, large-scale systems in financial services.

**We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.**
Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

**Salary**

**Benefits**
You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few

Your Lithuania specific benefits include:

- Private Health Insurance (3 options)
- Life & Accident Insurance
- Additional days off
- Wide variety of discounts and special offers
- ⁠Free Fitness facilities
- Volunteering activities
- Referral program

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate.

Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

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