Cloud & Digital Assets Platform Engineering Lead

Morgan Stanley • New York, NY

3d

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is seeking a senior technical leader to define, build, and advance cloud and digital asset platform strategy across its Wealth Management and Investment Management Technology organization. The role is the senior technical authority for architecture, engineering standards, platform modernization, cloud governance, and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud and digital asset solutions as business-critical workloads move to cloud platforms.

The position combines executive technical leadership with hands-on engineering expertise in AWS and GCP infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, DevSecOps, distributed systems, and modern application architecture. The leader will collaborate with product, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure engineering, and platform teams to establish scalable cloud foundations and accelerate cloud and digital asset adoption while maintaining security, compliance, resiliency, and operational standards.

The role also leads blockchain-enabled platforms, tokenization solutions, and digital asset lifecycle services, and champions infrastructure automation and AI-assisted engineering. The expected base pay range is $195,000 to $275,000 per year at the commencement of employment. Actual base pay is determined individually and may be part of a broader compensation package that can include incentives, bonuses, and other company-sponsored benefit programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of software and infrastructure engineering experience, including building and supporting enterprise-scale cloud, blockchain, and digital asset solutions.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on both AWS and GCP, including enterprise-scale platforms and landing zones.
• Strong understanding of tokenization, smart contracts, and distributed ledger technologies.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, identity and access management, and cloud governance.
• Familiarity with financial services, capital markets, digital custody, or regulated environments.
• Hands-on AWS skills including VPC, IAM, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, EC2, S3, EKS, and CloudWatch.
• Hands-on GCP skills including VPC, IAM, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancing, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Monitoring & Logging.
• Knowledge of blockchain, tokenization, and distributed ledger technologies; smart contracts, blockchain security and governance; blockchain integration patterns; Web3 technologies; and digital asset lifecycle services.
• Knowledge of digital custody in regulated environments.
• Python or GoLang, shell scripting, APIs, and automation frameworks.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.
• Exposure to cloud security frameworks, compliance requirements, and risk management practices.
• Experience with platform engineering and self-service cloud enablement models.
• Experience with public, private, and permissioned blockchain networks and Web3 technologies.
• Relevant cloud certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or Google Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent.
• Understanding of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud operating models.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, implementation, and evolution of AWS and GCP platform capabilities, including multi-cloud and hybrid operating models.
• Define and drive architecture, technology roadmaps, and technical strategy for cloud and digital asset platforms.
• Establish cloud architecture standards, guardrails, best practices, and reusable platform patterns across AWS and GCP.
• Partner with engineering teams to establish secure, scalable, and resilient AWS and GCP cloud landing zones.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, infrastructure patterns, and operating models aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Own long-term cloud modernization and transformation roadmaps.
• Design and deliver blockchain-enabled platforms, tokenization solutions, and digital asset lifecycle services.
• Provide hands-on leadership across microservices, distributed systems, blockchain integrations, and Web3 technologies.
• Define integration patterns for public, private, and permissioned blockchain networks.
• Establish best practices for smart contracts, blockchain security, governance, and operational support.
• Provide technical leadership on distributed ledger technologies and digital asset platform architecture.
• Evaluate emerging blockchain, digital asset, and cloud technologies to drive innovation and modernization.
• Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and related frameworks across AWS and GCP.
• Develop reusable cloud infrastructure modules and templates based on standards and reference architectures.
• Promote automated provisioning, policy enforcement, compliance validation, and operational efficiency.
• Explore AI-assisted engineering tools and cloud-native AI offerings, including agent, skill, and other resource development using AI.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence strategic technology decisions through technical expertise and thought leadership.
• Lead architecture reviews and establish standards for scalability, security, resiliency, and performance for cloud and digital asset initiatives.
• Guide teams through rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, and cloud-native modernization initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and architects on cloud technologies, automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Build trusted relationships across application teams, engineering leadership, cybersecurity, risk, and infrastructure organizations.

Benefits

• Morgan Stanley states that it offers comprehensive employee benefits and perks, but does not specify individual benefits in the description.
• Compensation may include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short- and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley-sponsored benefit programs.

What This Job Offers

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