Manager, Software Engineering - Parametric

Morgan Stanley•Minneapolis, MN

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm. Parametric, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, is a leader in custom solutions for over 30 years, helping investors access efficient market exposures and design multi-asset portfolios. This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, requiring 3 days a week in the office. The Accounting Platforms team is accountable for the reliability and strategic evolution of Parametric's accounting systems, including vendor-provided and internally built platforms. They support a wide range of business needs, from equities to derivatives, and are leading a multi-year initiative to align accounting capabilities with Parametric's strategic platform, Radius. This involves working closely with business leaders, solution managers, and accounting data consumers to transform both business workflows and software. The Manager, Software Engineering will lead the engineering team responsible for these platforms, overseeing delivery, operations, and people leadership. The role requires ensuring the accounting platforms can scale to support business growth, higher transaction volumes, and data throughput without sacrificing reliability. This is a hands-on technical delivery leadership position, staying close to technical details, design reviews, and platform behavior. The role also involves leading discovery and organizational change, focusing on making high-value accounting datasets available and developing the Radius Accounting Service with its APIs and Kafka interfaces. Success requires balancing platform stability, operational risk, business priorities, and modernization efforts, in partnership with a Principal Software Engineer for architectural leadership.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing software engineers.
Working knowledge of AI capabilities and practical approaches to applying them in engineering organizations.
Experience leading a technical team through a multi-stakeholder platform build or modernization effort that included business-process change, not only software change.
Ability to effectively operate across business process transformation, operational risk management, software delivery, and technology architecture.
Sufficient hands-on engineering depth to participate in design review and technical trade-off discussions.
Has been accountable for the uptime and operational health of a production system, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Demonstrated ability to learn new domains quickly, establish direction, and make informed decisions when information, requirements or priorities are evolving.
Establishes productive, professional relationships with senior individual contributors while constructively challenging technical assumptions and approaches.
People management experience including performance management, development planning, and hiring.
Experience scaling a platform's capacity and throughput to keep pace with rapid business growth, while maintaining efficiency and reliability.

Nice To Haves

Investment accounting or financial services domain experience; familiarity with portfolio accounting platforms such as Advent APX or comparable systems.
Experience owning a vendor-provided or vendor-hosted platform, including vendor escalation and upgrade management.
Experience delivering data products consumed by business teams under agreed accuracy, timeliness, and performance commitments.
Experience decomposing dependencies on a legacy system into an incremental, business-approved transition program.
Experience leading teams building cloud-native services (AWS preferred), including CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

Own a single visible, prioritized portfolio spanning platform operations, BAU demand, and strategic transition, and hold the trade-offs between them.
Own the intake-to-delivery process - sizing, decision rights, stakeholder commitment, and delivery reporting - and keep it fit for purpose as demand changes.
Own the operational health of the accounting platforms: reliability, monitoring and alerting, runbooks, incident response and review, known-risk tracking, and escalation paths both internally and to vendors.
Serve as Primary IT System Owner for the accounting platforms, including data lifecycle management, access controls, audit support, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
Own the working vendor relationships for the vendor-provided and vendor-hosted accounting platforms: escalation, upgrade planning, and service expectations.
Be accountable for the accounting outcomes Parametric depends on and for escalation when those outcomes are at risk.
Ensure the accounting platforms scale efficiently to meet Parametric's growing transaction volumes and data throughput requirements.
Build and sustain subject-matter depth in how Parametric uses each accounting platform: integration points, data-extraction paths, operational dependencies, and failure modes.
Own the Radius Accounting Service: the APIs and Kafka interfaces that map Parametric’s business domain concepts onto each accounting platform’s integration model, so consumers work in business language rather than accounting-system detail.
Own the design of high-value accounting data products; partner with automation teams to build the extraction pipelines, and monitor them as supported products with agreed quality, timeliness, and performance expectations.
Own integration between the accounting platforms and Radius in both directions: data flowing into the accounting platforms, and accounting capability surfaced through the Radius Accounting Service.
Lead the sustained alignment of accounting workflows with Radius: workflow discovery with the business, agreement on target-state use, readiness criteria, delivery, and adoption.
Partner with business leaders and solution managers to hold a current, viable transition path for accounting workflows, and revise it as the platforms and the business change.
Keep the transition sequenced against operational continuity, so alignment advances without putting business outcomes at risk.
Manage, develop, and grow the team: establishing clear expectations, coaching, career development, hiring, onboarding, and succession planning, including deliberate reduction of single-person knowledge dependencies.

Benefits

Medical
Prescription Drug
Dental
Vision
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 and 20 Vacation Days annually)
10 Paid Holidays
401(k)
Short/Long Term Disability