Windows Application Deployment Specialist

Overview of business area or project:

The contractor will work in Client Tax Reporting IT where applications to produce tax reports for the Bank clients are developed. The tax reports requires a lot of data from all over the banks systems and can get quite complex. High quality is very important. There are multiple large projects for different business and regulatory purposes running at the same time. The applications are built on standard IT platforms based on Java/JEE/Linux and Mainframe - plus a third party .net application for a AEI (automatic exchange of information) reporting. Many projects have regulatory deadlines or tight schedules so that flexibility and strong team work is required. One of the current and most important projects is AEI (automatic exchange of information) to fullfil regulatory requirements for Switzerland according to OECD CRS standard.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage installation, modification, troubleshooting, maintenance, and upgrades of 3th party and own windows-applications
- Coordinate promoting changes across the different environment
- Continuously improve the deployment process to allow automated and ensuring successful promotion
- Defect management/coordination
- Document systems infrastructure for users, support and consulting personnel, and developers
- Facilitate vendor relationships
- Actively participate in sprint ceremonies such as daily stand-up and retrospectives
- Happy with smoke-testing, implementing stress-testing and other QA automation to achieve solid solutions
- Log management and analysis (with Splunk)

Your team:

You will work in a team of about 20 people with about 10 business engineers and 10 software engineers. The team structure is quite diverse. There are very experienced senior engineers but also trainees. Most of the people work at the bank for many years and live near Lucerne. The team works with an agile approach and two weeks sprints. Communication language is usually German but many meetings are also held in English. Documents are mainly English. Your main contact persons will be some business engineers, the current application integrator and the solution architect of the team. Team work and team events are very important for the current team.

Essentials Skills and Qualifications:

Soft skills:

- Disciplined and organized
- Self-motivated and require minimal supervision
- Good interpersonal skills to be able to coordinate with other internal and external team members
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Experience working in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.
- Knowledge of software change controls applicable to the banking industry

Tech skills:

- Strong experience managing full 3 tier application stacks from the OS up through IIS hosted and CLI Windows-Applications (Ms.NET Framework)
- Hands-on experience with Server Side deployment (.Net, IIS, Jenkins, Atlassian Toolsuite)
- Strong knowledge of:
- source control software (preferably SVN)
- continuous integration tools (preferably Jenkins)
- Windows batch Scripting and Shell Scripting
- Packaging windows application and configuration

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

- Experience in the banking IT and Tax business (technical environment, standards, processes, procedures)
- Authentication and authorization - PKI's, LDAP, SAML, OAuth
- Experience in C#.Net application development

It is an interesting position to integrate, maintain and support a third party Win/.net software in banking IT environment. It is great opportunity to take part in global projects, work with many different stakeholders including vendor.

If you think this could be the right role for you, please feel free to apply online or please contact Agnieszka Wojcik directly (see below)