Vice President - Java Lead for Investment Banking Advisory Technology
About The Position
Morgan Stanley is seeking a senior, hands-on Full Stack Engineer with a strong backend Java focus to join IBD & GCM Technology within the Institutional Securities Technology Division. The team supports the Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets businesses. The role combines technical expertise and people leadership: leading engineers, setting technical direction, and serving as a primary technology partner to business stakeholders. The successful candidate will work with business stakeholders and product owners to understand workflows, identify pain points, and translate business needs into practical solutions. This is a hands-on role involving design, development, and ownership of components across the stack, from Java services and APIs to user interfaces. The role also includes mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions, and owning delivery from concept through production. Morgan Stanley’s Technology division partners with business units and technology companies to develop systems and infrastructure that support its financial services businesses. The firm describes its values as putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of relevant experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale applications.
- Strong hands-on Java skills, including Spring Boot, concurrent programming, RESTful API design, and automated testing.
- Full-stack experience building modern web applications using JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks such as React or Angular.
- Experience managing or leading engineers, including setting direction, mentoring, and developing talent.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements, influence strategy, and translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Strong system design and architecture skills, knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns, and experience building resilient, fault-tolerant, well-tested applications.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage business users, senior management, and engineering teams.
- Strong relational database and SQL skills, and solid Linux fundamentals.
- Genuine interest in understanding the business domain as well as the technology.
- Willingness to learn additional languages, such as Python, as business needs require.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of Investment Banking and Capital Markets workflows and products.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka or MQ.
- 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 an engineering workflow.
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and develop a group of engineers by setting priorities, providing technical mentorship, and fostering ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with IBD and GCM business stakeholders to 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.
- Personally tackle challenging engineering problems and build scalable, resilient Java backend services and modern web front ends.
- Communicate with product leads across the technology organization about improvements to current and future technology solutions.
- Promote engineering 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 with business users during critical events.
- Use AI tooling to accelerate software development while applying engineering judgment and oversight.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks.
- Potential commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, and other short- and long-term incentive packages, depending on the position.
- Other Morgan Stanley-sponsored benefit programs.
- Opportunities to move about the business.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
