FID, Strats, Release Manager - Vice President

Morgan Stanley•New York, NY

70d

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. Primary Responsibilities: 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.

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 (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

Nice To Haves

some development experience in Java or C++ so as to be able to read source code to conduct code mergers and conflicts, update test baselines
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
managing source code branches
preparing and delivering release candidate builds into testing
working with QA, IT, trading desk strategists, and production support teams through the test cycle to sign-off, integration into consumer applications, and release
maintains continuity of SDLC activities in Follow the Sun model in a global release management team with colleagues in India and London
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
configuration of Jenkins jobs, source code management tooling, and supporting trading desk strategists' use of development environment

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