Director, Lead Software Engineer
About The Position
Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. is seeking a Director, Lead Software Engineer in Jersey City, New Jersey. The role designs, develops, and deploys technical solutions and new features for the ETrade/Morgan Stanley self-directed trading platform. It also upgrades, maintains, and modernizes existing applications, including technical-stack updates, migration of older libraries, and system enhancements. The position reviews functional requirements and prepares documentation, technical programs, subsystem and system designs and solutions, project task descriptions, and effort estimates. It applies industry standards and the company’s existing software architecture, design techniques, and development standards, and reviews work to ensure compliance. Telecommuting is permitted up to two days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
- Five years of experience in the position offered, or five years as a Software Engineer, Consultant, Programmer Analyst, or in a related occupation.
- Five years of experience with C++; C; multithreading; MSMQ; Oracle; Sybase; SQL Server; UNIX/Linux/Windows; XML; Java/J2EE; VC++ (ATL COM); ASP; JavaScript; XSL; and Visual Basic.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy technical solutions and new features for the ETrade/Morgan Stanley self-directed trading platform.
- Upgrade, maintain, and modernize existing applications, including technical stacks, older libraries, and system enhancements.
- Review functional requirements and prepare documents, technical programs, subsystem and system designs and solutions, task descriptions, and effort estimates.
- Apply industry standards and the company’s software architecture, design techniques, and development standards.
- Review work to ensure compliance with industry and company standards.
- Document technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, project task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Dependent Day Care Savings Account
- Life insurance
- Disability and other insurance plans
- Paid time off, including sick leave consistent with state and local law
- Parental leave
- 20 vacation days annually
- 10 paid holidays
- 401(k)
- Short- and long-term disability
- Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award and business-unit incentive compensation plan, which may include a discretionary bonus component
- Other special employee perks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
