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Senior Site Reliability Engineer Office location: Basel Department: Banking Unit: Banking IT Service: Employment - Duration: 3 years Contract type: Fixed-term FTE%: 100 Application Deadline: 14/05/2024 Description The Bank for International Settlements is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Banking IT team. This role is based in Basel, however, thanks to our status as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities and located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members. Banking IT sits at the heart of the Banking Department and supports and maintains business critical trading, financial messaging and reporting applications and supports external trading platforms and their interfaces to internal systems. Purpose of the role: To ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems while promoting automation and continuous improvement. Customise and package business applications using scripting languages and develop small/medium size business applications, tools and interfaces. By joining the team: You will collaborate closely with business areas to understand their data needs and support them in a forward-looking manner, e.g. proposing new technologies and techniques. You will work with a truly international team of professionals with a diverse set of personal and professional backgrounds and experiences. Benefit from the flexibility of hybrid working with a balance of home office and onsite work from our central office in Basel. Principal accountabilities: Design and implement reliable, scalable, and efficient systems, tools, and processes to ensure the availability and performance of our software products. Collaborate with development and operations teams to identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other issues affecting system reliability and performance. Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for visibility into system and application health and performance. Automate infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management using tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable software delivery. Conduct performance testing, capacity planning, and other activities to scale systems to meet business demands. Continuously evaluate and improve systems, tools, and processes to meet current and future needs. Support tools and applications in use in the department, whether developed internally or provided by software suppliers. Provide production support for business applications. Readiness to work outside normal working hours during service windows and to provide on-call cover for evenings and weekend. Interact with the other IT and Security groups in the organisation regarding system design, integration, standards and change management. Inform Line Manager of major technology trends relevant to the business area for input into IT strategy. May be required by Line Manager to help set objectives for area of responsibility. Maintain overview of his/her broad technological area of expertise, including market trends, or of changing business needs of a Department or Service. Represents interest of business area in Bank-wide IT projects. Liaise with external suppliers in area of responsibility and is involved in negotiations as well as definition of terms for provision of their services. May be required to lead a product team or a community of practice . Ensures that team objectives are met. May be required to coach and train other business support analyst/developers. Qualifications, skills, and experience: University degree in computer science, information management or related field. Proven work experience in a technical department of a Financial Institution or software provider to Financial Institutions. Proven experience automating application rollout and support ideally with Findur. Excellent programming skills in one or more major globally recognised programming language and/or scripting language. Solid knowledge of tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform, Powershell and Windows batch files. Good knowledge of financial instruments and/or financial messaging technologies. Good writing skills including the ability to write system and user documentation in English. Experienced working in an agile development environment. Solid understanding of source control management, and importance of automated testing and deployment. Good understanding of business processes related to trading, back office, records management, settlements or financial messaging. An excellent team player with good communication and interpersonal skills. Comfortable liaising with and engaging staff across the organisation at all levels. A hands-on, practical approach. Who we are: The Bank for International Settlements is a diverse organization with colleagues from over 60 countries. By joining us in the international city of Basel, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We truly value diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the world we serve. We want the best people to work for us in an inclusive environment so welcome applications from all qualified candidates. At the BIS, we value equality and diversity in all its forms and one way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks. You can discover more about diversity at the BIS here. What the BIS offers: We want your time at BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, thanks to our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world. We strive to ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, and to perform essential job functions. Should you wish to request accommodation, support in completing this application or participating in the application process, then please reach out to the recruitment team at staffing@bis.org. Please create a user account to start the application process by entering your details. By logging in, current applicants can edit their application until the closing date or apply for a new position. Previous Applicants: Email: Password: If you do not remember your password click here. Back to Search Results New Search

Member of Secretariat, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures - FMI portfolio lead Office location: Basel Department: MED Unit: Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) Service: Employment - Duration: 3 years Contract type: Fixed-term FTE%: 100% Application Deadline: 20/05/2024 Description The BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) has an opportunity available for a Member of Secretariat to join the team. The role is based in Basel, Switzerland, however, thanks to our status as an international organisation, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members. Purpose of the role: Our mission is to support central banks' pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international cooperation, and to act as a bank for central banks. As a Member of Secretariat with the CPMI you will support this mission by leading the portfolio on financial market infrastructures (FMIs). By joining the CPMI: · You will join a dynamic, diverse and highly engaged team. The CPMI Secretariat team supports the Committee and its various international working groups as well as those under its joint work with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and other international bodies. · You will manage the CPMI’s policy and standard-setting work in relation to regulatory, supervisory and oversight issues in FMIs and lead the FMI portfolio of the CPMI Secretariat. · You will manage the development and publication of reports setting out international policy and standards in this area. · You will be the key contact on FMIs for coordinating with other international bodies, such as the Financial Stability Board, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and IOSCO. Principal accountabilities: · Provides secretariat support for the CPMI and/or CPMI-IOSCO and their working groups and task forces. Ensures and organises the support activities of a particular subgroup, in coordination with the subgroup chair and line manager. · Prepares background analysis, including meeting documents, for meetings of high-level central bank officials on financial market infrastructure issues. · Organises the preparation, publication and distribution of reports drawn up by the CPMI and/or CPMI-IOSCO or their subgroups. · Monitors and analyses developments in FMIs and their implications for the functioning and stability of the financial system. · Defines and carries out research and policy analysis to be included in BIS and CPMI publications. · Establishes and maintains professional contacts, partnerships and effective communication within the BIS, with the central banking and regulatory communities (in particular with other standard setting-bodies and international organisations), and with market participants and industry groups. · Represents the BIS and the CPMI in meetings hosted by central banks and at other international organisations. Gives presentations on the work of the CPMI and/or CPMI-IOSCO at seminars and conferences. Qualifications, skills, and experience: · Advanced degree in economics, finance, law or related fields. · Solid understanding of financial market structures and developments, in particular risk management issues in FMIs and related regulatory, supervisory and oversight issues. · Knowledge of payment and FMI issues related to digital innovations and financial integrity (eg anti-money laundering) would be an asset. · Proactive and result-oriented, team spirit and good interpersonal skills. · Critical thinking, long-term planning and effective coordinating and negotiating skills. · Strong analytical skills and relevant experience with innovative policy-orientated research. · Excellent drafting and communication skills in English in writing and speaking for both technical and non-technical audiences. · International work experience, in particular in CPMI-IOSCO policy and standard-setting work, as well as practical experience as a supervisor or overseer of FMIs would be beneficial. Who we are: The Bank for International Settlements is a diverse organisation with colleagues from over 60 countries. By joining us in the international city of Basel, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We truly value diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the world we serve. At the BIS, we value equality and diversity in all its forms and one way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks. You can discover more about diversity at the BIS here. What the BIS offers: We want your time at the BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, thanks to our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world. We strive to ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, and to perform essential job functions. Should you wish to request accommodation, support in completing this application or participating in the application process, then please reach out to the recruitment team at staffing@bis.org. Please create a user account to start the application process by entering your details. 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Senior DevOps Engineer Office location: Basel Department: General Secretariat Unit: Information Technology and Services Service: Employment - Duration: 3 years Contract type: Fixed-term FTE%: 100% Application Deadline: 29/04/2024 Description The Bank for International Settlements, BIS is hiring two Senior DevOps Engineers in our Core Infrastructure and Cloud & Collaboration teams within our IT Infrastructure Group. These roles are based in Basel, Switzerland however, thanks to our status as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities and located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members. Purpose of the roles: Our mission is to support central banks’ pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international partnership and to act as a bank for central banks. You will contribute to this mission by supporting our technology modernization and innovation programme involving designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure in our hybrid cloud environment in support of our ongoing innovation strategy. You will apply your knowledge in DevOps platforms and technologies to deliver projects addressing a wide variety of business issues. You will work in a variety of projects, ranging from small and tactical to Bank-wide strategic projects. By joining our ITS team, you will: · Join a collaborative, specialist engineering team that embraces innovation, creativity and encourages knowledge sharing. · Benefit from working in a unique, international environment that offers flexible, hybrid working options with a blend of onsite work from our central office location in Basel and home office. Core Infrastructure Engineering: As a member of our Core Infrastructure team, you will contribute to our Innovation 2025 strategy by driving the deployment and management of a modern OpenShift platform. In this role, you will provide internal management, expert advice and operational experience on automation of IT infrastructure throughout the organization, including cloud and on-premises, this will include: platform orchestration, container design, agile project management, software engineering and application development. Additionally, you will contribute to the Bank’s overall hybrid cloud technology strategy. Cloud & Collaboration: In this role, you will support the team responsible for delivering the Bank’s core cloud platforms and services with a strong strategic focus on the Azure platform. You will collaborate closely with technical experts and business users across the Bank and contribute to the Bank’s overall technology strategy. Your areas of focus will be: delivering and maintaining PaaS and IaaS infrastructure, applying agile and DevOps practices, designing and implementing automation tools, systems and applications. Key skills for this role include developing IaC using Terraform, GitHub/DevOps, Azure Landing Zone Design and Deployment, Azure Monitoring and Security while following Microsoft CAF best practices in a hybrid cloud environment. Qualifications, skills, and experience: We have opportunities for Senior DevOps Engineers with expertise in either RedHat OpenShift or Azure IaaS and PaaS. For both roles, we require the following skills and experience: Knowledge of IT infrastructure technologies to support integration of Container services in a hybrid cloud environment. Demonstrated experience scripting in popular languages including Bash, Python and Perl Experience with DevOps practices, in particular automation and reusability as key enablers of project delivery and operations. Fluency with code management solutions, in particular GIT and CI/CD tools, including integrating their use in common infrastructure management and deployment tasks. Experience building integrations and applications against common REST base API’s, particularly infrastructure and core IT services like storage, cloud computing, virtualization, and networking. Excellent communication (in English), presentation and team-working skills. Able to present points clearly and convincingly. Ability to actively work supporting culture change initiatives. Who we are: The Bank for International Settlements is a diverse organization with colleagues from over 60 countries. By joining us in the international city of Basel, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We truly value diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the world we serve. We want the best people to work for us in an inclusive environment so welcome applications from all qualified candidates. At the BIS, we value equality and diversity in all its forms and one way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks. You can discover more about diversity at the BIS here. What the BIS offers: We want your time at BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, thanks to our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world. We strive to ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, and to perform essential job functions. Should you wish to request accommodation, support in completing this application or participating in the application process, then please reach out to the recruitment team at staffing@bis.org . Please create a user account to start the application process by entering your details. By logging in, current applicants can edit their application until the closing date or apply for a new position. Previous Applicants: Email: Password: If you do not remember your password click here. Back to Search Results New Search

Data and Analytics Engineer - 1LOD Coordination Office location: Basel Department: MED Unit: MED IT Service: Employment - Duration: 3 years Contract type: Fixed-term FTE%: 100% Application Deadline: 29/04/2024 Description The Bank for International Settlements, BIS is looking for a Data and Analytics Engineer with big data, data analytics and software engineering backgrounds to help us build the next generation of our data and analytics systems. The role is based in Basel, Switzerland, however, thanks to our status as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members. Purpose of the role: The mission of the BIS is to support central banks' pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international cooperation, and to act as a bank for central banks. The MED IT team support this mission by gathering and analysing a large array of data and statistics on global financial systems and micro-economic activity. From this, we generate a variety of insights that are used and relied upon by central banks, financial regulatory institutions, and academia around the world. Indeed, some of the source data sets we work with and the ways in which we combine them are unique to our organisation. But we know that our full potential is yet to be achieved. Our aim is to collect a wider variety of data and harness new technology to generate more powerful insights. This is a chance to be involved in a step change in our capability. By joining the MED IT team, you will: directly contribute to our mission as a part of collaborative team who are solving a range of complex software and data challenges, including data management, advanced analytics, and business intelligence. help us explore and exploit cutting-edge technologies, including big data platforms and machine learning. find yourself looking outwards and collaborating; not just among the team but with expert economists, technologists, data scientists and statisticians – and counterparts in other international organisations and central banks. benefit from a working in a unique, international environment that offers flexible, hybrid working options with a blend of onsite work from our central office location in Basel and home office. Principal accountabilities: Supporting the Monetary and Economic Department (MED) in the effective provisioning, development and use of business applications and contributing to defining and implementing the IT strategy and architecture for MED statistical applications. Oversee the duties of MED’s First Line of Defence (1LOD), encompassing the management of associated projects, reporting, controls, and fostering collaboration with Second Line of Defence (2LOD) entities. Creating and maintaining data pipelines and related IT architecture. Implementing analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide business insight. Utilizing advanced AI methodologies to streamline, automate, and enhance business operations and processes. Managing IT products and assume related budget and reporting responsibilities. Providing IT / administrative support to MED IT users, customers, and steering committees. Qualifications, skills, and experience: Graduate degree or equivalent experience in computer science, or another IT-related technical field, with experience in software development or data engineering. Programming skills in languages like Python, C# .NET, Java. Experience of large data modelling (by using the Hadoop family of technologies). Experience in working with economic and financial statistics (using data science tools). Knowledge and experience on working with SQL and will have familiarity with various databases. Experience of building and optimizing ‘big data’ pipelines using Spark or Python. Experience in managing IT products including budgeting and procuring. Strong analytical skills and passion for solving data challenges is required to be successful in this role. Who we are: The Bank for International Settlements is a diverse organization with colleagues from over 60 countries. By joining us in the international city of Basel, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We truly value diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the world we serve. We want the best people to work for us in an inclusive environment so welcome applications from all qualified candidates. At the BIS, we value equality and diversity in all its forms and one way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks. You can discover more about diversity at the BIS here. What the BIS offers: We want your time at BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, thanks to our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world. We strive to ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, and to perform essential job functions. Should you wish to request accommodation, support in completing this application or participating in the application process, then please reach out to the recruitment team at staffing@bis.org. Please create a user account to start the application process by entering your details. By logging in, current applicants can edit their application until the closing date or apply for a new position. Previous Applicants: Email: Password: If you do not remember your password click here. Back to Search Results New Search