Associate, Strats

Morgan Stanley • New York, NY

2d • $200,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is seeking an Associate, Strats in New York, New York to support, architect, and continuously enhance Morgan Stanley’s sales data and client- enablement infrastructure supporting Fixed Income electronic trading platforms. Analyze multi-source sales, client-onboarding, entitlement, and trade-reference data to identify systemic inefficiencies and performance bottlenecks. Apply findings to inform strategic decisions across Sales, Trading, Technology, Risk, and Operations. Design, implement, and optimize scalable, cost-efficient data and workflow solutions to improve client-onboarding throughput, electronic-trading readiness, sales-credit attribution, and platform performance across global Fixed Income businesses. Act as product owner for sales-data and client- enablement initiatives, defining detailed functional and technical requirements, prioritizing enhancements, and coordinating delivery across multiple technology and quantitative development teams. Communicate with senior business and technology stakeholders to translate complex technical concepts into actionable business solutions, ensure alignment with strategic objectives, and drive adoption of new capabilities. Collaborate closely with Strat developers and engineers to deliver robust monitoring, reporting, and automation solutions that support revenue generation, operational-risk reduction, and the continued expansion of electronic trading. Telecommuting permitted up to 1 day per week.

Requirements

• Requires a Master’s degree in Information Systems, Finance, or a related field of study.
• Requires three (3) years of experience in the position offered or three (3) years as an Analyst, Assistant Vice President, or a closely related occupation.
• Requires three (3) years of experience with the following skills: designing and maintaining scalable business intelligence infrastructure; building analytical dashboards and reporting solutions using tools including Power BI, Streamlit, and Python; queries, validates, and integrates data using SQL across relational and distributed databases; analyzing multi-source data to identify operational bottlenecks and systemic inefficiencies; applying principles of information systems design to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and consistency across platforms; translating business, regulatory, and operational requirements into functional and technical specifications; applying analytical and artificial-intelligence–based techniques to enhance data insights, automation, and decision support; collaborating across teams to implement solutions aligned with business objectives; application programming interfaces to enable data exchange and workflow integration across systems; Unix-based environment; financial products, market structure, and sales and trading workflows; cloud-based data architecture using platforms including Snowflake, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Support, architect, and continuously enhance Morgan Stanley’s sales data and client- enablement infrastructure supporting Fixed Income electronic trading platforms.
• Analyze multi-source sales, client-onboarding, entitlement, and trade-reference data to identify systemic inefficiencies and performance bottlenecks.
• Apply findings to inform strategic decisions across Sales, Trading, Technology, Risk, and Operations.
• Design, implement, and optimize scalable, cost-efficient data and workflow solutions to improve client-onboarding throughput, electronic-trading readiness, sales-credit attribution, and platform performance across global Fixed Income businesses.
• Act as product owner for sales-data and client- enablement initiatives, defining detailed functional and technical requirements, prioritizing enhancements, and coordinating delivery across multiple technology and quantitative development teams.
• Communicate with senior business and technology stakeholders to translate complex technical concepts into actionable business solutions, ensure alignment with strategic objectives, and drive adoption of new capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with Strat developers and engineers to deliver robust monitoring, reporting, and automation solutions that support revenue generation, operational-risk reduction, and the continued expansion of electronic trading.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level