Consultant conversion - Lead Software Eng - Director

Morgan Stanley•New York, NY

13d

About The Position

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Lead Software Engineering position at the Director level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs. Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on. Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture. Operations Technology The Technology Division works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. The Operations Technology division is responsible for building and operating the technology platform catering to critical business processes at Morgan Stanley including Settlements, Regulatory Reporting, Client Reference Data, Position Keeping, Corporate Actions processing and other post-trade functions. The Firm operates at scale with up to 40 million trades processed on peak volume days and hundreds of billions of dollars of daily settlements with activity ongoing in multiple countries and currencies across the globe. There is a great breadth of financial products that our Operations plant handles across equity and fixed income, from cash products to complex derivatives and loans. Department Counterparty Data and Regulatory Technology department has commenced on several strategic initiatives to better our technology and onboarding platform. We build a critical horizontal platform that offers critical client onboarding and regulatory compliance functions to the firm. We are beginning multi-year program of platform renovation with an aim of offering next-generational technology platform using latest caching techniques, BPM integrations, cloud-aligned architecture and best-in-class UX on frontend. As a senior developer, Client Onboarding and Regulatory Platform, you'll be involved in detailed technical design, development and implementation of applications using emerging technology choices. What you'll do in the role: This is a senior developer position for Onboarding and Regulatory platform. You are required to be a technologist with solid command on distributed development tools and tech-stack - primarily Java and Java based web-development, angular, databases, frameworks for enterprise system development, enterprise integration patterns, cloud focused architecture and tools. You will be owning the development on new platform as per established best practices, adhering to standards setup by the group and with diligent focus on Usability, Cloud Adoption and User Experience. Role involves broad engagement with our wide user base, distributed across the globe to come up with effective user interface for our onboarding and regulatory platform. You will be involved with every facet of software development, from requirement analysis, design and development to helping the team continuously improve its agile development practices.

Requirements

strong technology background with advanced knowledge of Java and Java based technology stack
At least 5 years of hand-on Java EE and core Java experience with strong leadership qualities
Experience with web service development, REST and Services Oriented Architecture
Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Design patterns, Architecture and Application Integration
Working knowledge of Databases including Design, SQL proficiency
Strong experience with frameworks used for development and automated testing like spring, Junit, BDD etc.
Experience with Unix/Linux
Ability to coordinate with multiple groups, both internal and external to the firm, including offshore development and QA teams, internal infrastructure groups, vendors, and support teams.
Strong development skills with ability to understand technical design and translate the same into workable solution.
Familiarity with working in a large team.
Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and work on the same to meet business requirements.
A background that includes strong problem solving such as system integration, infrastructure debugging, or system administration.

Nice To Haves

Web UI JS Framework - AngularJS, ExtJS
Pega BPM tool or any other Business Process Management tool awareness/experience
Distributed Caching
NoSQL - Marklogic
Big Data technology experience - Hadoop, Apache Spark, Elastic Search
Experience with data management through vendor feeds.

Responsibilities

detailed technical design
development and implementation of applications using emerging technology choices
owning the development on new platform as per established best practices
adhering to standards setup by the group and with diligent focus on Usability, Cloud Adoption and User Experience
broad engagement with our wide user base, distributed across the globe to come up with effective user interface for our onboarding and regulatory platform
involved with every facet of software development, from requirement analysis, design and development to helping the team continuously improve its agile development practices

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