Principal, Technology Alignment & Resilience - Parametric

Morgan Stanley • Seattle, WA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal, Technology Alignment and Resilience role is responsible for leading large, complex technology programs across Parametric's Technology Alignment and Resilience portfolio. This role supports enterprise-level execution across data center exit, ACDC, cloud modernization, application readiness, technology enablement, business continuity, disaster recovery, incident management, and Shared Services coordination. This role interacts and presents information throughout the organization, working closely with technology leaders, business stakeholders, application developers, Morgan Stanley Shared Services partners, and executive stakeholders. This role requires the ability to create clarity, manage ambiguity, drive accountability, and move complex work forward across multiple teams with competing priorities. A key focus of this role is serving as a primary partnership and coordination lead with MS Shared Services teams. The role will help clarify ownership, intake paths, service expectations, delivery dependencies, escalation channels, and decision points required to support PPA data center exit, modernization, resilience, and technology alignment objectives. This role does not own day-to-day migration execution or overall enterprise strategy. Instead, it is accountable for program execution alignment, governance readiness, dependency management, Shared Services accountability, executive decision support, and disciplined follow-through across a complex, regulated financial services environment. This role helps convert strategic direction into clear execution paths, documented decisions, and measurable progress.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in financial services technology environments.
• 10+ years leading large-scale technology programs, infrastructure programs, application migration efforts, cloud modernization initiatives, or enterprise transformation work.
• Proven experience leading Data Center Exit, enterprise modernization, or comparable large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Deep understanding of enterprise application landscapes, dependency management, and modernization of trade-offs.
• Extensive experience operating within regulated, risk-managed environments.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives and drive outcomes across complex, matrixed organizations.
• Exceptional executive communication, strategic storytelling, and governance leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage large, complex enterprise-level technology programs across data center exit, ACDC, cloud modernization, application readiness, resilience and technology enablement.
• Drive application readiness an disposition governance across a large application portfolio, ensuring applications have clear ownership, documented readiness, resilience, and technology enablement.
• Serve as a primary coordination and relationship lead with MS Shared Services partners across infrastructure, enterprise technology, cloud, security, risk and operational functions.
• Support enterprise strategy and alignment for Data Center Exit, and enterprise modernization
• Define, socialize, and enforce enterprise principles, guardrails, and decision frameworks.
• Partner with Architecture, Infrastructure, Product, and Engineering leaders to align multi-year roadmaps and investment priorities.
• Act as a senior interface between Technology, Business, Risk, Security, Compliance, and governance stakeholders.
• Coordinate application readiness inputs for MS migration sequencing, wave planning, cutover preparation, decommission readiness, exception handling, and post-migration validation.
• Maintain consolidated views of program status, blockers, risks, owner actions, decision paths, aging ex
• Elevate material risks, dependencies, and systemic issues requiring senior leadership intervention.
• Support steering committees and executive forums with concise, outcome-focused decision papers and strategic insight.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, vendor strategy, operating models, and technology enablement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce legacy complexity, execution friction, technical debt, and operating model risk while supporting scalable modernization outcomes.
• Engage with program/process owners, stakeholders and business partners as necessary to communicate project objectives, strategy, tactics, and ongoing progress.
• Drive alignment and build trust with stakeholders.
• Facilitate and enhance the communication and process between IT and the business to establish software engineering priorities, work direction, and best practices; includes working with key stakeholders in the business, business analysts, and developers.
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities while maintaining strong business relationships.
• Effective balance of membership, business, and technical goals with available resources (this is really about resource allocation
• Escalate material risks, ownership gaps, missed decisions, readiness gaps, and execution blockers through appropriate leadership and governance channels.
• Identify opportunities to improve program management practices, reduce execution friction, strengthen operating discipline, and improve delivery consistency.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed