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ABOUT US
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200 countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
Are you interested in gaining real-world, hands on, project-based experience in Summer 2025? Are you seeking a chance to explore the business world?
Based in Virginia, you will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship. During your internship, you will work alongside a mentor and with a team who can help you develop your business sense.
Swift is redefining cross-border transactions, making them faster and more transparent than ever before. We are the way the world moves value — every instant of every day, in almost every country. Over 11,000 banks in more than 200 countries trust us 24/7 and 365 days a year. We’re trusted every instant.
At this time, Swift is not able to offer relocation or housing to interns.
Program Highlights:
2024-13832 Data Analyst Intern
Location: Manassas
Major: Computer Science, Business Analytics, Data Science, Technical Communication
Are you passionate about data, writing, or even both? Intern on the Knowledge Delivery team to discover how we use data to get the right knowledge to the right people at the right time!
This summer, join our team to get real, hands-on experience as a Data Analyst at Swift. You’ll work on our global team with a mission to deliver quality support documentation to customers while you grow your network around the world.
Swift’s Documentation Delivery team remains at the forefront of the technical communication industry. We’re empowered by continuous improvement and have a hunger for growth and learning.
Excited yet? Here’s some more about our team:
What’re you waiting for? Apply now. We’re looking forward to welcoming you this summer!
Preferred qualifications: experience with SQL and other query languages
2024-13866 Transaction Management Intern
Location: Manassas
Does an internship that focuses less on small coding projects, and more on the big picture of how technology companies create products from concept to delivery sound interesting?
In the Transaction Management tribe, our products are at the forefront of Swift's mission to make transactions fast, streamlined, and clear. We are a global team that combines business sense and skilled engineering to build value for Swift's customers. We want to get even better, and we need your help.
Your project will be to capture and document how we work as a tribe today - the roles and responsibilities, the team structures, and the flow of information and materials that come together to create value.
Along the way, you will:
2024-13841 DevOps Engineering Intern
Location: Manassas
The Path to Production cluster is a cross-functional set of DevOps Engineering teams who work together in order to provide the foundational development and CI/CD tools to Swift. As part of our cluster, you will:
Within the Path to Production cluster, you will take part in automating the delivery of application software from code to the LIVE environment in a secure and controlled but streamlined process. During this time, you will:
Location: Manassas
The GPI team develops and supports the key payment tracking service used by the banks all over the world. This service uses the latest Java technologies to provide cutting edge solutions for tracking payments.
As a Software Development Intern with GPI Group, you will work closely with our development team on various projects, gaining hands-on experience in both Java and Python programming. This internship is an excellent opportunity for a passionate and proactive student or recent graduate to develop technical skills, learn from experienced professionals and contribute to meaningful projects.
Project Description:
Location: Manassas
Project Description:
Service observability, a project in the Monitoring Engineering Team, where interns are tasked with working alongside Senior DevOps Engineers to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to propose, develop, and implement solutions.
We are in the process of evaluating and on-boarding service observability tools especially around infrastructure, Application and Network Performance monitoring. You will be working on proof of concepts, develop APIs to integrate monitoring tools with different platform including AWS, Virtualization, Network, Storage and Container technologies. You will also apply AIOps and Machine Learning capabilities for advanced reporting, alerting and perform automated actions. At the end of the project, interns will present a proposal to the Infrastructure Monitoring Engineering Team.
2024-13862 User Experience Designer Intern
Location: Manassas
Major: Computer Science or Computer Programming, Information Technology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI/HCD), Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Psychology, Cognitive Science
What You’ll Do
Location: Culpeper
About the team and assignment:
Are you a student passionate about learning new things while solving real-world problems?
You will spend 10 weeks in our Critical Mission Control Operations team where we are responsible for monitoring and managing Swift’s customer-facing services and applications. You will leverage real-world technologies and tools as part of your project assignment which involves automating repetitive manual tasks using scripting languages and/or data analytics tools.
Continuous learning and development are key to growth and success of any team member, and we are fully committed to ensuring maximum exposure as part of this intern assignment
2024-13900 Operations Engineer (Networks/System) Intern
Location: Culpeper
About the team and assignment:
Are you a student passionate about learning new things? Do you enjoy looking at a problem and figuring out a solution?
You will spend 10 weeks in our CMC Operations team where we are responsible for managing all production services and applications. You will also be exposed to new technologies, use new tools and instruments as part of your project assignment which involve automating manual/toil tasks using scripting language and data analytics tools. Continuous learning and development are key to growth and success of any team member, and we are fully committed to ensuring maximum exposure as part of this intern assignment.
2024-13944 Data Science Intern
Location: Tysons
About This Job
Are you passionate for new technology, hands-on and motivated to tackle hard problems with the latest technology?
Our team is an innovation team focused on exploring the use of AI capabilities to address challenges in the financial industry, leveraging Swift’s rich datasets and in collaboration with Swift customers. We are looking to create the next generation AI based solutions for cross-border financial transactions.
You will become part of a team of Swift data scientists and get your hands dirty creating and testing AI models for the financial industry. In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow your skills, apply different technical concepts, libraries and algorithms to real world problems working with high-quality real-world data. A passion for problem-solving and critical thinking is required, along with Python programming skills.
The project you will work on involves creating and testing AI models for detecting fraud and other anomalies in payment transactions, exploring the use and evaluating the performance of different algorithms, including both supervised and unsupervised deep learning techniques. You will be responsible for:
Location: Tysons
We are looking for interns who would work with the API Product Owners and Product managers to support and come up with end-end roadmap and also help in API standardization and harmonization initiatives.
If you are interested in learning the API lifecycle management and governance, in addition to learning the business aspects of APIs, come and join us!
During your internship, you will work alongside a mentor and with a team who will help you experience how Swift works with its clients to make cross-border payments instant and frictionless.
Job Description:
Location: Tysons
Based in Tysons, VA, you will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship in the API and Identity team. Our team enables cross border transactions through APIs, we manage Swift's API platforms. The roles and responsibilities include development, testing, and operations. If you are interested in learning the API lifecycle management and governance, in addition to the technical skills needed for development and test automation on API Platforms, come and join us!
During your internship, you will work alongside a mentor and with a team who will help you experience how Swift works with its clients to make cross-border payments instant and frictionless.
Job Description:
Location: Tysons
About This Job
Are you passionate for new technology, hands-on and motivated to tackle hard problems with the latest technology?
Our team is a platform technology team building infrastructure and solution code to support delivery of AI capabilities to Swift and Swift’s customers, in the cloud and on-prem. We are creating the next generation AI platform at Swift, designing and building AI infrastructure that will serve Swift’s world-wide users.
You will become part of the team and get your hands dirty creating and testing AI infrastructure and components to serve enterprise quality AI solutions. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow your skills by working in a team of world class technologists focused on delivering state of the art AI platform technology.
The project you will work on involves creating and testing an MLOps pipeline that can support the variety of Swift AI requirements, use cases and deployment options. You will work with DevOps engineers, architects, software developers and data scientists to design, build this and test this infrastructure with actual Swift AI use cases. You will be responsible for:
Location: Tysons
Are you passionate about testing, test automation and delivery pipelines?
Your responsibilities will be to:
At the end of the project work, the Intern will showcase and demo the functional Automation tests completed and the contribution to the Squad success, aligning to the Tribe Objectives and Key Results and Key Performance Indicators.
What We Offer
We put you in control of career
We give you a competitive package
We help you perform at your best
We help you make a difference
We give you the freedom to be yourself
We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.
If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us to request accommodation.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200 countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
Are you interested in gaining real-world, hands on, project-based experience in Summer 2025? Are you seeking a chance to explore the business world?
Based in Virginia, you will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship. During your internship, you will work alongside a mentor and with a team who can help you develop your business sense.
Swift is redefining cross-border transactions, making them faster and more transparent than ever before. We are the way the world moves value — every instant of every day, in almost every country. Over 11,000 banks in more than 200 countries trust us 24/7 and 365 days a year. We’re trusted every instant.
At this time, Swift is not able to offer relocation or housing to interns.
Program Highlights:
- Robust, real-world projects
- Professional Development and Networking Opportunities
- Ten Week program, June 2nd — August 8th
- Hourly rate: $33/hour
- Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship,
- Be a rising junior or senior
2024-13832 Data Analyst Intern
Location: Manassas
Major: Computer Science, Business Analytics, Data Science, Technical Communication
Are you passionate about data, writing, or even both? Intern on the Knowledge Delivery team to discover how we use data to get the right knowledge to the right people at the right time!
This summer, join our team to get real, hands-on experience as a Data Analyst at Swift. You’ll work on our global team with a mission to deliver quality support documentation to customers while you grow your network around the world.
Swift’s Documentation Delivery team remains at the forefront of the technical communication industry. We’re empowered by continuous improvement and have a hunger for growth and learning.
Excited yet? Here’s some more about our team:
- We’re driven by data and analytics to improve customer experience – data drives our day-to-day operations!
- We make written language accessible and inclusive.
- We use industry-leading software.
- We represent a variety of interests, backgrounds, and traditions.
- Create and review analytics dashboards to gain practical insights.
- Streamline data collection workflows.
- Prepare recommendations to project stakeholders based on data analysis.
- Write and publish in a structured authoring environment (DITA XML).
What’re you waiting for? Apply now. We’re looking forward to welcoming you this summer!
Preferred qualifications: experience with SQL and other query languages
2024-13866 Transaction Management Intern
Location: Manassas
Does an internship that focuses less on small coding projects, and more on the big picture of how technology companies create products from concept to delivery sound interesting?
In the Transaction Management tribe, our products are at the forefront of Swift's mission to make transactions fast, streamlined, and clear. We are a global team that combines business sense and skilled engineering to build value for Swift's customers. We want to get even better, and we need your help.
Your project will be to capture and document how we work as a tribe today - the roles and responsibilities, the team structures, and the flow of information and materials that come together to create value.
Along the way, you will:
- Interview team members around the world to create a ground-up view of our organization, roles, responsibilities, and the flow of work.
- Learn about our business practices, technology stack, tooling, and processes
- Create visuals and text using tools like Confluence and PowerPoint to document your findings.
- Leverage your fresh perspective to surface new insights and recommendations.
- Lead facilitation of group sessions with engineers to support problem solving, ideation, and continuous improvement.
2024-13841 DevOps Engineering Intern
Location: Manassas
The Path to Production cluster is a cross-functional set of DevOps Engineering teams who work together in order to provide the foundational development and CI/CD tools to Swift. As part of our cluster, you will:
- Work closely with us to learn and grow your skills in the areas of: Agile development, problem solving, communication, and teamwork.
- Participate in requirement analysis for development of new features, components, and enhancements to existing components working directly with internal customers.
- Participate in development, code review, testing, and deployment activities.
Within the Path to Production cluster, you will take part in automating the delivery of application software from code to the LIVE environment in a secure and controlled but streamlined process. During this time, you will:
- Gain hands-on experience using DevOps tools like BitBucket, CloudBees CI & CDRO, Ansible, Nexus, and ArgoCD
- Grow your automation skills scripting with Scriptrunner for Jira/Confluence and Groovy
- Network with other teams across the organization to understand requirements and outcomes
- Present your successes with the rest of the organization
Location: Manassas
The GPI team develops and supports the key payment tracking service used by the banks all over the world. This service uses the latest Java technologies to provide cutting edge solutions for tracking payments.
As a Software Development Intern with GPI Group, you will work closely with our development team on various projects, gaining hands-on experience in both Java and Python programming. This internship is an excellent opportunity for a passionate and proactive student or recent graduate to develop technical skills, learn from experienced professionals and contribute to meaningful projects.
Project Description:
- Enhance the testing framework that uses Karate to develop Unit tests for the Rest APIs of the new Case Management solution. This framework should also be used to benchmark the API performance.
- Build dashboards in Oasis (API response time, usage patterns, version usage)
- Assist in designing, developing, testing, and debugging software solutions using Java and Python.
- Contribute to ongoing projects, troubleshooting issues, and providing support as needed.
- Document code, processes, and project details to ensure clarity and maintainability.
- Participate in team meetings and code reviews to gain insights and share ideas.
- Collaborate with team members to understand project requirements and develop efficient code.
- Research new tools, techniques, and best practices in Java and Python development to enhance project outcomes.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a collaborative attitude.
- Proficiency in Java and Python, with a basic understanding of object-oriented programming concepts.
- Familiarity with software development tools like Git, IDEs (e.g., Eclipse, PyCharm), and version control systems.
- Knowledge of database management, SQL, and frameworks (such as Django or Spring) is a plus.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Location: Manassas
Project Description:
Service observability, a project in the Monitoring Engineering Team, where interns are tasked with working alongside Senior DevOps Engineers to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to propose, develop, and implement solutions.
We are in the process of evaluating and on-boarding service observability tools especially around infrastructure, Application and Network Performance monitoring. You will be working on proof of concepts, develop APIs to integrate monitoring tools with different platform including AWS, Virtualization, Network, Storage and Container technologies. You will also apply AIOps and Machine Learning capabilities for advanced reporting, alerting and perform automated actions. At the end of the project, interns will present a proposal to the Infrastructure Monitoring Engineering Team.
2024-13862 User Experience Designer Intern
Location: Manassas
Major: Computer Science or Computer Programming, Information Technology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI/HCD), Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Psychology, Cognitive Science
What You’ll Do
- Lead user research, prototyping, testing, and implementation of a web or mobile experience for internal partners (that you will showcase at the end of the summer).
- Support a user research campaign passionate about improving inefficiencies.
- Practice advocating for Design Thinking within the product development process.
- Help build wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs for various projects, following design guidelines and standard processes.
- Work closely with UX designers, product managers, and developers to contribute to brainstorming sessions and design critiques.
- Design portfolio –
- Showcasing a variety of projects that demonstrate your design process; to include research, wireframes, prototypes, and final designs.
- Case studies highlighting a few projects with detailed explanations of your thought process, challenges faced, and how you arrived at solutions.
- Foundational knowledge in UX concepts and Design Thinking.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Axure, or Sketch.
- Understanding of varying research techniques (surveys, interviews, usability testing) and how to apply them effectively.
- Willingness to work with others, share feedback, and engage in discussions about design.
- Approach problems analytically and creatively; demonstrating how you can identify user needs and come up with innovative solutions.
- Be open to feedback and willing to iterate on your designs based on user testing and team input.
- Show passion for understanding users and advocating for their needs in the design process.
- Exhibit a genuine curiosity about learning about different aspects of UX, including psychology, design and technology.
Location: Culpeper
About the team and assignment:
Are you a student passionate about learning new things while solving real-world problems?
You will spend 10 weeks in our Critical Mission Control Operations team where we are responsible for monitoring and managing Swift’s customer-facing services and applications. You will leverage real-world technologies and tools as part of your project assignment which involves automating repetitive manual tasks using scripting languages and/or data analytics tools.
Continuous learning and development are key to growth and success of any team member, and we are fully committed to ensuring maximum exposure as part of this intern assignment
2024-13900 Operations Engineer (Networks/System) Intern
Location: Culpeper
About the team and assignment:
Are you a student passionate about learning new things? Do you enjoy looking at a problem and figuring out a solution?
You will spend 10 weeks in our CMC Operations team where we are responsible for managing all production services and applications. You will also be exposed to new technologies, use new tools and instruments as part of your project assignment which involve automating manual/toil tasks using scripting language and data analytics tools. Continuous learning and development are key to growth and success of any team member, and we are fully committed to ensuring maximum exposure as part of this intern assignment.
2024-13944 Data Science Intern
Location: Tysons
About This Job
Are you passionate for new technology, hands-on and motivated to tackle hard problems with the latest technology?
Our team is an innovation team focused on exploring the use of AI capabilities to address challenges in the financial industry, leveraging Swift’s rich datasets and in collaboration with Swift customers. We are looking to create the next generation AI based solutions for cross-border financial transactions.
You will become part of a team of Swift data scientists and get your hands dirty creating and testing AI models for the financial industry. In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow your skills, apply different technical concepts, libraries and algorithms to real world problems working with high-quality real-world data. A passion for problem-solving and critical thinking is required, along with Python programming skills.
The project you will work on involves creating and testing AI models for detecting fraud and other anomalies in payment transactions, exploring the use and evaluating the performance of different algorithms, including both supervised and unsupervised deep learning techniques. You will be responsible for:
- Working with data scientists, data engineers and software developers to explore and train novel anomaly detection models.
- Validating and testing those models by working with Swift product teams.
- Working with Swift customers to understand the use of Swift models when combined with other anomaly detection systems used by customers.
Location: Tysons
We are looking for interns who would work with the API Product Owners and Product managers to support and come up with end-end roadmap and also help in API standardization and harmonization initiatives.
If you are interested in learning the API lifecycle management and governance, in addition to learning the business aspects of APIs, come and join us!
During your internship, you will work alongside a mentor and with a team who will help you experience how Swift works with its clients to make cross-border payments instant and frictionless.
Job Description:
- Build API roadmaps.
- Contribute to the API standardization initiative.
- Work on harmonizing the API based solutions.
- Contribute to the API governance initiative.
- Be part of an agile team, following agile methodology best practices.
Location: Tysons
Based in Tysons, VA, you will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship in the API and Identity team. Our team enables cross border transactions through APIs, we manage Swift's API platforms. The roles and responsibilities include development, testing, and operations. If you are interested in learning the API lifecycle management and governance, in addition to the technical skills needed for development and test automation on API Platforms, come and join us!
During your internship, you will work alongside a mentor and with a team who will help you experience how Swift works with its clients to make cross-border payments instant and frictionless.
Job Description:
- APIs and Identity
- Build API solutions to empower the API platform products.
- Development work involves all or some of the following: Java, JavaScript, Python.
- UI design and development using frameworks like JavaServer Faces (JSF) and PrimeFaces.
- Be part of an agile team, following agile methodology best practices.
- Migrating RichFaces to PrimeFaces.
- Front end development using PrimeFaces
- API Operational Excellence.
- Java
- JavaServer Faces (JSF)
- PrimeFaces UI Framework
- JavaScript
- RHEL
- Maven
- Git
- UI development: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
- Open API spec
- IDE
- Postman
- Cloudbees
- Bitbucket
- Jira
- Agile methodologies
Location: Tysons
About This Job
Are you passionate for new technology, hands-on and motivated to tackle hard problems with the latest technology?
Our team is a platform technology team building infrastructure and solution code to support delivery of AI capabilities to Swift and Swift’s customers, in the cloud and on-prem. We are creating the next generation AI platform at Swift, designing and building AI infrastructure that will serve Swift’s world-wide users.
You will become part of the team and get your hands dirty creating and testing AI infrastructure and components to serve enterprise quality AI solutions. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow your skills by working in a team of world class technologists focused on delivering state of the art AI platform technology.
The project you will work on involves creating and testing an MLOps pipeline that can support the variety of Swift AI requirements, use cases and deployment options. You will work with DevOps engineers, architects, software developers and data scientists to design, build this and test this infrastructure with actual Swift AI use cases. You will be responsible for:
- Working with team architects on infrastructure component designs.
- Implementing and integrating these components, including platform vendor capabilities.
- Developing code to implement actual AI use cases.
Location: Tysons
Are you passionate about testing, test automation and delivery pipelines?
Your responsibilities will be to:
- Develop and maintain test specifications/test cases/ sets of regression tests, for new hardware component/software release of applications in an accurate and timely manner.
- Automate new and existing test scripts using Python, and Robot framework.
- Automate the Build pipeline with CDRO.
- Analyze technical and functional requirements and translate them into software solutions.
- Understand dependencies toward other systems.
- Prepare installation and operating procedures.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation.
- Supporting the delivered software and being part of a 'Center of Expertise' problem solving team.
- Selenium
- Robot Framework
- BDD framework
- Python
- Java
- CICD Pipeline
- Cloud Bees
- KPI Technology (Key-Pair Infrastructure)
- Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins
- UNIX operating system and shell scripting language(s)
- Scrum methodology
At the end of the project work, the Intern will showcase and demo the functional Automation tests completed and the contribution to the Squad success, aligning to the Tribe Objectives and Key Results and Key Performance Indicators.
What We Offer
We put you in control of career
We give you a competitive package
We help you perform at your best
We help you make a difference
We give you the freedom to be yourself
We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.
If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us to request accommodation.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.
Salary : $33
