Lead Engineer (Blockchain & Tokenization) - Vice President

Morgan StanleyMenlo Park, CA
$140,000 - $250,000Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced product architect to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products and platform capabilities and components that are used by millions of customers daily. You will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive modernization initiatives using the latest cloud and other open-source technologies. You are builder and have deep understanding of tools and technologies to create architecture that delivers business outcomes. You will be responsible for architecting a modern architecture leveraging loosely coupled domain services, modern data integration patterns and secure and scalable architecture.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
  • 10+ years of relevant professional experience preferably with a Master's in Computer Science.
  • Hands-on experience building services using cloud native technologies and enterprise-scale experience with migrating and decomposing monoliths into services.
  • Expert knowledge of cloud native and microservices architecture, design principles and technologies and can mentor teams in implementing it
  • Demonstrable deep experience in rethinking/reimagining existing service/application architecture as it is migrated to cloud. This includes services de-composition, security, leveraging native services, resiliency and observability.
  • Understanding of how-to design and leverage IaaS, PaaS and SaaS delivery models
  • Experience designing products leveraging network, security, compute and storage domain
  • Deep understanding and experience in one of the public clouds (AWS, Azure) native services
  • Strong Skills in relational database (preferably Sybase, Oracle, MSSql)
  • Experience with delivery of cloud infrastructure automation, DevOps and CI/CD
  • Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
  • Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
  • Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
  • Influences through others; builds direct and behind the scenes support for ideas
  • Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
  • Shares knowledge, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
  • Ability to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
  • Have a mindset and inclination to teach and grow the talent. Seed cloud mindset and skills in the organization

Nice To Haves

  • Financial Services or FinTech experience is a plus
  • Contribution in open-source community project is big plus

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with other architects and engineering leadership to understand requirements and ensure enterprise best architecture practices are adopted in product
  • Providing direction to the product development teams with regards to planning, definition, and high-level solution design, establishing critical non-functional requirements and participating in defining other functional requirements.
  • Presenting ideas to all levels of management, technical and non-technical audiences, and guiding engineering teams in their implementation.
  • Perform technical design reviews and peer reviews on source code to ensure reuse, scalability and the use of best practices.
  • Build reference architecture and solutions that are flexible and can evolve with business needs
  • Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
  • Drive innovation by using innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base around cloud, microservices, high transaction databases, and API-enabled platforms and products

Benefits

  • Ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
  • Some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.
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