As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Job Title: Release/Environment Manager
Locations: Hybrid working ideally Lichfield or London based (but can be any UK SS&C location)
Get To Know Us:
SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
- Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
- Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
- Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career
What You Will Get To Do:
- Planning the release of project deliverables, this includes the day-to-day management of tickets and any associated dependencies across the Web (Adviser and Client Portal), API, Middle Office and Back Office
- Oversees release changes through environments (including production through controlled promotion processes or documented support procedures)
- Leading and co-ordinating production checklist and deployment plans
- Working with the release engineers/developers to attain timely builds into test, and ultimately deployment to live, managing any conflicts between branches
- Documenting and manging the risk that may affect the scope of the release (test failures, development blockage etc.)
- Communicating progress of releases and escalating issues to Delivery Director and wider stakeholders
- Tracking readiness for a release, including internal/external communications and associated readiness activities. Preperation and tracking of go/no go calls
- Post deployment support and running/documenting Post Implementation Reviews
What You Will Bring:
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication is crucial for coordinating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership: The ability to guide, motivate, and influence cross-functional teams.
- Collaboration: Skills in coordinating and working effectively with diverse teams, including development, QA, and operations.
- Attention to Detail: The ability to manage multiple tasks and ensure accuracy throughout the release process.
- Risk Management: Experience in identifying and mitigating risks associated with releases.
- Agile Methodologies: Understanding of Agile practices is essential as many teams use them.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
