FID, Strats, Release Manager - Vice President at Morgan Stanley

New York, New York, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

21 Jan, 26

Salary

250000.0

Posted On

23 Oct, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Release Management, Testing, Application Support, Git, Jenkins, BitBucket, Bug Tracking, Stakeholder Communication, Change Management, Python Scripting, SDLC, Financial Services, Integration, Automation, Collaboration, Risk Modelling

Industry

Financial Services

Description

We are looking for a senior technical, hands-on specialist to handle the coordination of testing and release process for the Fixed Income pricing and risk modelling libraries and reference data. This is a challenging and high-profile role which spans the end-to-end software development cycle (SDLC) - including managing source code branches, preparing and delivering release candidate builds into testing, and working with QA, IT, trading desk strategists, and production support teams through the test cycle to sign-off, integration into consumer applications, and release. Located in New York, this role is a critical point of contact for desk strategists, technology and QA colleagues in that timezone, maintains continuity of SDLC activities in Follow the Sun model in a global release management team with colleagues in India and London. The successful candidate will also help with improving our automated build, release, integration and testing infrastructure covering the entire SDLC across several million lines of C++, Java, and Scala source code. This will include configuration of Jenkins jobs, source code management tooling, and supporting trading desk strategists' use of development environment. Most of the Fixed Income portfolio is valued and risked using these pricing and risk modelling libraries, which are used by many varied applications throughout the firm and have multiple inter-dependencies. This requires that we build the libraries in a consistent manner on multiple different platforms, and integrate them into the varied application landscape, which is itself constantly changing. Our ability to patch, test and release new functionality within hours if not minutes can be critical to our success as a business, and the successful candidate will be critical to helping us achieve this. Essential: extensive experience as hands-on release manager, testing, or application support specialist, preferably in financial services extensive experience with git and its use in support of feature and release branching strategies, patching, release notes management extensive experience of managing testing cycles, bug tracking, stakeholder communication, release prioritisation, change management extensive experience of using Jenkins, BitBucket and effectively using these to build release candidates and optimise build automation flow experience of writing scripts (eg in python) for tasks such as promotion and propagation of artifacts, generation of release notes, custom SDLC actions experience of working in a globally distributed team Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser. Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $160,000 and $250,000 for Vice President at commencement of employment. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Responsibilities

The role involves coordinating the testing and release process for Fixed Income pricing and risk modelling libraries. The successful candidate will manage the end-to-end software development cycle and work closely with various teams to ensure timely releases.