Release Engineer

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.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our global Release Management team, working regionally as a Software Release Engineer. You will take care of software releases for all Avaloq products in collaboration with a variety of teams from Project Management and Test to Infrastructure and Software Development. You will be responsible for our UK customers and support them during various SDLC phases and go-live.

• Planning and rollout of various Avaloq products in the controlled environments.
• End-to-end accountability for the successful delivery of releases into the Live environments.
• Creating and managing implementation plans, release meetings, and production cutover.
• Leading release scope validation with project managers and delivery managers and ensuring technical validation of all releases are completed and reported for the Go Live.
• Delivering software packaging, deployment, and log analysis of Avaloq products.
• Documenting and educating the users on release, configuration, DevOps, and deployment management best practices.

• Proven track record working in Release Management, Configuration Management in a junior or mid-level position in the Banking / Financial Services Industry
• Hands-on experience working with technologies such as Unix, Oracle, SQL, Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Git/GitHub or other source code management tools
• Excellent communication skills to navigate conflict resolution, stakeholder management and collaborating with multi-cultural matrix teams.
• Well-versed in CI/CD process
• Ability to work ad hoc on weekends or out of hours depending on priorities
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject

It would be a real bonus if you have:

• Experience of technologies such as Shell scripting, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Container Platform
• Agile / ITIL certifications or AWS / OCI or any cloud certifications
• Awareness of Avaloq Banking System concepts
• Knowledge about Avaloq Front Platform, Mobile Application releases
• Avaloq ICE Release Stream creation, cutover

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.