Jira Configuration Specialist

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues. We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

The Service Request Management (SRM) Team is responsible for delivering and maintaining Avaloq's sophisticated Jira-based customer ticketing solution, which serves as the cornerstone of all development, change, test, and release management processes across the organisation. As the ticketing platform is utilised by every business unit within Avaloq, the team continuously evolves and adapts the system to align with evolving business requirements and to enhance operational efficiencies.

The team operates as a cohesive unit across globally distributed locations including Bioggio, Zurich, London, and Manila. Daily stand-ups facilitate close collaboration, expedite knowledge sharing, and enable rapid resolution of impediments, thereby maintaining consistently high standards of quality and responsiveness.

Your key tasks

• Plan, design, configure, and deploy global Atlassian-based ticketing systems, ensuring alignment with organisational requirements
• Automate, optimise, and continuously enhance existing solutions in partnership with the development team
• Coordinate and consolidate requirements from diverse user groups and external vendors
• Provide comprehensive communication, guidance, and training to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate effectively with product owners, software engineers, and fellow configuration specialists
• Lead and contribute to cross-functional projects within a complex systems environment

• Extensive experience administering and configuring Jira Data Center and Jira Cloud (Software & Service Management)
• Demonstrated hands-on experience integrating third-party systems and plugins with Jira or other Atlassian tools
• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology or equivalent professional experience
• Solid understanding of system design, development, implementation, and operational principles
• Proven ability to contribute to solution design and architecture activities, with particular focus on security, resilience, and automation
• Collaborative approach with a commitment to quality and continuous improvement of Jira-based customer-facing solutions
• Capacity to work independently and manage responsibilities autonomously
• Fluency in English; working proficiency in German or Italian (speaking both is advantageous)

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Atlassian Administrator certification
• Foundational Unix system knowledge and experience, preferably with CentOS and/or RHEL
• Experience with application, performance, and end-user experience monitoring tools (e.g., Check_MK, Fluentd, Grafana)
• Basic database knowledge, including SQL
• Experience with virtual infrastructure setup and configuration (vSphere or cloud-based solutions)

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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