Release Manager Hybrid
Release Manager Hybrid
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The Role
Our next generation of realtime market data platform operates around the globe 24 x 7 connecting to 6 financial exchanges delivering realtime market data benchmark prices news content and research data to our customers around the world. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join our team to help shape and build our financial data platform that will help power the business through the next phase of its digital growth.
The new platform is being engineered for the cloud as a set of scalable faulttolerant microservices with rich web and mobile UIs. Our technology stack is largely Microsoft although we also leverage a number of open source software adopting the right tool for the job approach.
As a Release Manager / QA Engineer reporting into the Digital Platforms Delivery Manager your time will be focused on planning testing tracking release deployment communication and risk management.
Principal Accountabilities
Release Planning
Communication and Reporting
Release Testing
Maintaining Release Processes
KEY INTERFACES
Digital Platforms Delivery Manager
Engineering Managers
Product Owners / Product Management
Software engineering team
SRE
Qualifications :
We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are openminded curious resilient solutionsoriented and committed to promoting equality then read on...
KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated driven and have a passion to be part of a fastpaced successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
A successful candidate will have:
A computer science degree or a similar discipline
26 years of experience in the use of Jira for release management including Jira Releases Jira Roadmaps and Zephyr Test Type Jira Tickets (Zephyr plugin for Jira)
Excellent programming skills and experience (Automation) using programming languages tools and frameworks:
Cypress Selenium Playwright Cucumber (Gherkin Syntax) TestNG or a similar testing framework.
Experience in at least one of the following programming languages: C# Java Python
Experience in using at least one of the following Build & Deployment tools: Jenkins Azure Devops AWS Github Actions etc.
Experience in using other daytoday development tools such as GIT and various CLIs (Bash cmd.exe Powershell) Being able to use Kubernetes and Azure CLIs is a plus.
810 years of experience in working in an IT environment.
General PC knowledge including Microsoft Office expert level knowledge of Excel working Knowledge of Access
Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies.
Working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle
Good understanding of application infrastructure system architecture and operating systems
Ability to handle software infrastructure management & configuration management.
Experience in coordinating crossfunctional teams up to task completion.
A successful candidate might also have:
Project management experience
Knowledge of traditional agile methodologies including Scrum Waterfall or Kanban
Knowledge of market data commodity exchanges and financial instruments
Personal Attributes
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent analytical skills
Structured thinking
Team management skills
Continuously looking for ways to improve (yourself your team the code the processes)
Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and deliver in a fastpaced environment
Highly collaborative and able to work across multiple teams and geographies
Resultsdriven with a focus on longterm value creation
If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information :
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its this mix of brilliant personalities experiences and insights that gives us that warm open and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are there are six things we all have in common and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customercentric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.
Youve read a little about us now its over to you!
If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.
Its vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why youre great.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
