Software Release Engineer (Release Manager)

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

The Software Release Engineer (Release Manager) will be working in our Release Management Hub team in Makati (Metro Manila), taking care of Avaloq software releases for our clients in Region Europe.

We build, configure, and deploy various software artifacts in test, integration, and production environments. You will be responsible for a defined set of customers and support them during various SDLC phases and go live.

Your key tasks

• You will be involved in planning and rollout of various Avaloq products in the controlled environments.
• You will have end-to-end accountability for the successful delivery of releases into the Live environments.
• Accountable for release scope validation with project managers and delivery managers.
• Ensures technical validation of all releases are completed and reported for the Go Live.
• Create and manage implementation plan, release meetings and production cutover.
• Taking responsibility for software packaging, code merge and log analysis of Avaloq core and front platforms
• Collaborating with specialists of different areas for the implementation of cross-domain activities
• Building trustworthy relations with internal and external stakeholders as developers, Project Managers, Test Managers and Client Managers.
• Document and educate the users on release, configuration, DevOps, and deployment management best practices.

Please take good note of the fact that you will work with clients based in Europe; for this reason the chose candidate will follow a mid shift schedule (3:00 PM upto 1:00 AM), as well as on-call availability services and support on weekends during release Go Live

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering Degree.
• Overall 7 years of experience with 3-5 years of experience in Release Management and/or Configuration Management experience, ideally in the banking and financial services industry.
• Experience with Unix, Oracle, SQL, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus, Gerrit, Bitbucket or other source code management tools.
• Know-how in analysing technical problems and automating recurring administrative activities.
• Conflict resolution, stakeholder management, experience in multi-cultural matrix teams.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Open to work in weekend/shifts and to extended support beyond shifts unscheduled hot fix releases.

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Knowledge about Avaloq Front Platform, Mobile Application releases.
• Avaloq ICE Release Stream creation, cutover.
• Shell scripting, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Container Platform.
• Agile / Oracle Cloud / ITIL certified.
• Be used to fast pace and complex environments.
• At ease in writing technical documentations (e.g. on Confluence).

In our experience, Software Release Engineers (Release Managers) who are particularly good at their job share some additional skills that we would also like to find in our future colleagues: being analytical, reliable, service oriented and with a problem-solver attitude.

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.