Vice President - Lead Software Engineer
About The Position
Morgan Stanley is seeking a senior, hands-on engineer with a strong backend Java/Python focus for IBD & GCM Technology within the Institutional Securities Technology Division. The team supports Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets. The role combines technical expertise and people leadership: leading a group of engineers, setting technical direction, and serving as a primary technology partner to business stakeholders and product owners. The engineer will design, build, and own core components across the stack, from Java services and APIs to user interfaces. The role includes mentoring engineers, making architectural decisions, and owning delivery from concept through production. The position also involves modernizing components, building scalable and resilient services, supporting production stability, and using AI tooling in the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of relevant experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale applications.
- Strong hands-on Java/Python engineering skills, including Spring Boot, concurrent programming, RESTful API design, and automated testing.
- Full-stack experience building modern web applications with JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React or Angular.
- Strong relational database and SQL skills, and solid Linux fundamentals.
- Strong experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka or MQ.
- Proven experience managing or leading engineers, including setting direction, mentoring, and developing talent.
- A track record of working directly with business stakeholders, gathering requirements, influencing strategy, and translating business needs into solutions.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of Investment Banking and Capital Markets workflows and products.
- Understanding of cloud-based platforms and distributed systems.
- Understanding of authentication and authorization frameworks.
- Experience with modern Java (21+) and GitHub.
- Experience integrating AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude Code or Amp, into a real engineering workflow.
- Willingness to learn additional languages, such as Python, as business needs require.
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and develop a group of engineers by setting priorities, providing technical mentorship, and fostering ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Serve as the primary technology partner to IBD and GCM business stakeholders: gather requirements, shape priorities, and lead initiatives from concept through delivery.
- Lead architectural design and modernization of defined ecosystem components, and drive analysis and design for initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems.
- Remain hands-on, solving challenging problems and building scalable, resilient Java backend services and modern web front ends.
- Communicate with product leads across the technology organization about opportunities to improve existing and future technology solutions.
- Promote engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD, and help evolve them across the team.
- Own production system stability, lead resolution of complex incidents, and communicate clearly with business users during critical events.
- Use AI tooling to accelerate the software development lifecycle while applying engineering judgment and oversight.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks.
- Employee benefits and support for employees and their families throughout their work-life journey.
- Opportunities to move about the business.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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