FID, Strats, Release Manager Vice President

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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.

Qualifications

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

Desirable:

• 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

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $160000 and $250000 for Vice President at commencement of employment. However base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package which depending on the position may also include commission earnings incentive compensation discretionary bonuses other short and long-term incentive packages and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

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