Software Management Technician
Location: London
Apply To: careers@wallstreetsystems.com
Wall Street Systems (Wallstreet) provides functionally rich, integrated and scalable solutions for improved workflow, control and overall productivity for corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading and global back office operations. Wallstreet is the market leader in FX trade processing and through its award-winning products, including Wallstreet Suite, Wallstreet Treasury, Wallstreet FX and Wallstreet BackOffice, the company processes millions of transactions, aggregating to trillions of dollars, every day.
With a 20 year heritage, Wallstreet has an outstanding reputation for quality and responsive service, and prides itself on helping its clients achieve long lasting benefits and results. Its 500 employees service over 300 banking, corporate and central bank clients, operating out of 12 offices worldwide. The company is a privately held corporation, and is majority owned by Warburg Pincus, a global private equity investor.
Job Description
The Software Management Technician will be working within the Wall Street FX/BO team which is part of the London R&D group, reporting to the Manager of Software Management.
The Software Management Technician is responsible for carrying out the software turnover requests to build and deliver software components externally to our customer base and internally to our in-house test systems in an accurate and timely way. Working as part of a team of three managing work via the in-house Source Control Management System (SCMS). Responsibilities also include working to develop & enhance aspects of software management systems, processes and procedures.
The role requires working in a rotating shift pattern from 09:00 to 17:30,and every third week from 13:30 to 22:00.
Successful candidates will be given training to support their development within the team, the position is an excellent gateway to other roles within Software Management, Research & Development or other roles within the company.
Key Responsibilities
- Verification of the completeness of requests
- Liaison with Product Managers and their staff regarding Turnover requests.
- Building, packaging and delivering turnover requests to clients via the FTP server, e-mail or delivery & implementation in internal systems
- Recording and administration of delivery details, capturing metrics relating to deliveries
- Creation of Windows GUI installation kits using Installshield
- Provide technical support for delivery problems
- Reconciliation of software deliveries to clients
- Assist with the collection and packaging of releases and deltas
- Small project work developing aspects of software management systems, processes and procedures, supporting other team members with their projects.
Required Skills and Experience
- Degree qualified desirable but not essential, bright candidates with relevant job experience also considered, candidates should be able to satisfy at least 5 of the following skills / experience requirements:-
- Delivery of software for a software house or equivalent organisation
- Developing software using VB or C++.
- Developing software using Java J2EE or J2SE (Java 1,5 or higher)
- Deployment of J2EE applications using JBoss, Tomcat or Glassfish
- Unix experience on Solaris, HP-UX, Redhat Enterprise 5 or Linux
- Unix shell, Perl and Ant scripting
- Use of Source Control Management System tools such as Perforce or Eclipse
- Database development and structures to support development projects, experience of Oracle an advantage
- Building, managing and deploying Virtual Systems – Ideally VMWare desktop or server solutions
- Systems or operational experience of Windows server environments on Windows 2000 server / W2K3
- Knowledge of Terminal services, Citrix, SharePoint technologies advantageous.
Wall Street is an equal opportunity employer. At Wall Street Systems, we prohibit any type of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, or national origin and value diversity of all types.