FID, Strats, Release Manager - Vice President

Morgan Stanley • New York, NY

75d • $160,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture. The Fixed Income Division is comprised of Interest Rate and Currency Products, Credit Products and Distribution. Professionals in the Division assess and actively manage risk, trade securities, and structure as well as execute innovative transactions in the fast-paced and constantly changing global markets. The Commodities Division is a market leader across a broad range of commodities markets, with expertise in areas including client risk management, financing solutions and investor products Sales & Trading.

Requirements

• 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 (e.g., 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.

Nice To Haves

• Some development experience in Java or C++ to read source code for conducting code mergers and conflicts.
• Some experience with C++ development environment and multi-platform C++ builds in Linux and Windows.
• Familiarity with build tools such as bazel, cmake, premake, make, visual studio devenv/msbuild, and build acceleration tools such as Incredibuild, distcc and ccache.
• Familiarity with standard code quality tools such as sonar, cpplint.
• Familiarity with package/dependency management tools such as conan, maven, artifactory.

Responsibilities

• Handle the coordination of testing and release process for the Fixed Income pricing and risk modelling libraries and reference data.
• Manage source code branches, prepare and deliver release candidate builds into testing.
• Work with QA, IT, trading desk strategists, and production support teams through the test cycle to sign-off, integration into consumer applications, and release.
• Maintain continuity of SDLC activities in Follow the Sun model in a global release management team.
• Help improve automated build, release, integration and testing infrastructure covering the entire SDLC.
• Configure Jenkins jobs and support trading desk strategists’ use of development environment.

Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits and perks.
• Opportunities for career advancement within the firm.
• Support for employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees