RTGS Senior SWIFT AMH Engineer (Specialist)

Location: Leeds or London

Are you passionate about secure, resilient technology that underpins the UK economy? As a SWIFT Engineer, you'll play a key role in supporting and evolving the Bank's Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system - a critical part of the UK's financial infrastructure! You'll work within a collaborative, agile team to deliver and support SWIFT messaging services.

Flexible Working Options:

This role is open to flexible working patterns, these may include:

• Flexible start and end time to each day
• Ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments
• A 50% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks
• Compressed hours (subject to approval and policy within the team)
• Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and policy within the team)

A Day in the Role:

Reporting to a Technology Team Lead and working closely with colleagues, you will be responsible for delivery, support, maintenance and operation of the SWIFT AMH/Messaging Gateway components for the RTGS solution. You'll be involved in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, contributing to the delivery of new features and ensuring the tools and methodologies used by the team remain current.

Throughout the day, you'll monitor the Bank's live and UAT financial messaging systems, proactively resolving issues and ensuring performance is maintained. You'll provide technical troubleshooting during incidents, support out-of-hours operations (including Bank Holidays), and help maintain compliance with the Bank's security standards. You'll also coach and mentor junior engineers, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and support.

Role Requirements

The successful candidate should have extensive demonstrable experience with SWIFT applications. If you're passionate about secure, resilient technology and want to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Minimum Criteria

We're looking for someone who has the following key skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience configuring and supporting one or more of the following SWIFT products:
  • Alliance Connect
  • Alliance Gateway
  • Alliance Web Platform
  • Alliance Messaging Hub
  • Transaction Delivery Agent
  • HSM
• Experience providing technical support and troubleshooting in a live operational environment
• Have a strong understanding of ISO 20022 industry messaging and end to end business flows
• Demonstrable experience working as part of a team to deliver features across technical solutions, focused on SWIFT applications

Essential Criteria

We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:

• Experience working in agile teams and participating in sprint ceremonies
• Ability to deliver high-quality software components and documentation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to translate requirements into a low-level technical design
• Experience supporting live and UAT environments
• Commitment to adhering to security and operational standards

Desirable Criteria

The SWIFT Engineer role offers fantastic opportunities to work on innovative and tailored technologies within an interesting and highly rewarding environment.

Additional consideration will be given to candidates that can demonstrate:

• Experience with both Windows and Linux platforms
• Experience with automation deployment using Ansible
• Experience with Automated testing

Given the number and wide scope of these technologies we are not expecting you to know every possible technology in use. This is a great opportunity to get involved and learn new tools and technologies.

How this role fits into the wider Bank:

The RTGS system is at the heart of the UK's financial infrastructure, settling around £775bn in payments every day. As part of the RTGS Engineering team, you'll help ensure this vital system remains secure, resilient, and fit for the future. Your work will directly support the Bank's mission to maintain monetary and financial stability in the UK.

Our Approach to Inclusion

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.

At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We believe that it's by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we'll continue to make the best decisions for the public.

We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns. We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.

For most roles where work can be carried out at home, we aim for colleagues to spend half of their time in the office, with a minimum of 40% per month. Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them, their team and stakeholders.

Finally, we're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme . If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the 'Candidate Personal Information' under the 'Disability Confident Scheme' section of the application.

Salary and Benefits Information

We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.

In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process (and typically can take between 6 to 12 weeks post offer) and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with the Bank policy. Further information regarding the vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant, and information about how the Bank processes personal data for these purposes, is set out in the Bank's Privacy Notice .

The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited. The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful. Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.

The Application Process

Important: Please ensure that you complete the 'work history' section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It's therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.

This role closes on 5 February 2026.

The assessment process will comprise of two interview stages.

Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed.