Company Description
Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 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.
Job Description
The Senior Software Engineer will be working in the Release Management team for our SaaS clients in Region Europe, based in Berlin, Germany.
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.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering Degree
• 3 to 5 years of 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

• Govern the release management processes of specific/assigned Avaloq products
• Responsible for software packaging, code merge and log analysis of Avaloq core and front platforms
• Managing release and building, deploying, versioning code using tools like ICE, GIT, Artifactory and Jira
• Participate to definition of yearly Release Calendar for all SaaS clients
• Coordinate with internal and external technical teams for deploy
• Issues investigation and troubleshooting: provide installation insight, and approach on addressing installation invalids and errors
• Build-up and disseminate release management know-how to peers
• Technical consulting for the setup of the Avaloq Database factory and for Avaloq specific applications (ICE, Smart Client, Integration Robot)
• Identify places for quality improvement and execution speed up
• Contribution to design and technical documentation for software life cycle
• Collaboration with specialists of different areas for the implementation of cross-domain activities
• Build trustworthy relations with internal and external stakeholders as developers, PMs, Test Managers and Client Managers
• Being available for the team on-call service (7x24)