Early-Career Payment & Compliance Applications Engineer

SMBC Group; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

SMBC Group in Tralee, Ireland, is hiring a Junior Payment & Compliance Application Support Engineer on a full-time basis in a hybrid role. You will work with production support, payments systems, and compliance platforms, developing technical expertise while supporting critical platforms.

You will collaborate with business users and engineers to ensure availability, reliability and performance, participate in incident management, and contribute to automation and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering/Finance or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Up to 3 years' experience in application support or banking technology.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated with a proactive and disciplined approach to work.
• Ability to work effectively within a team and take ownership.
• Interest in financial services, payments technology and production support operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day production support for payment and compliance applications.
• Monitor application performance, transaction processing and system health.
• Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve production incidents in a timely manner.
• Support application deployments, upgrades and maintenance activities.
• Participate in the team's on-call support rota.
• Support payment systems including SWIFT, SEPA, ISO 20022, Fedwire, CHIPS, CHAPS and ACH.
• Support compliance platforms covering KYC, AML and sanctions screening.
• Contribute to automation, monitoring and continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to enhance service stability and operational efficiency.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Fast learner

Teamwork

Accountability

Interest in payments tech

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering/Finance or related

Job description

SMBC Group in Tralee, Ireland, is hiring a Junior Payment & Compliance Application Support Engineer on a full-time basis in a hybrid role. You will work with production support, payments systems, and compliance platforms, developing technical expertise while supporting critical platforms.

You will collaborate with business users and engineers to ensure availability, reliability and performance, participate in incident management, and contribute to automation and process improvements.