Consultant conversion Soft Prod Mgmt & RE II Associate 1 (Program)

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 Software Production Management & Reliability Engineering position at the Associate level which is part of the job family responsible for overseeing the production environment ensuring the operational reliability of deployed software and implementing strategies to optimize performance and minimize downtime.

Morgan Stanley
Since 1935 Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services continuously evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

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.

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What youll do in the role:

As a member of the Reliability and Production Engineering team within Sales and Trading Production Management you will be supporting critical trading applications in a fast paced exciting and dynamic Trading Floor environment. You will work within a team of technologists acting as the first point of contact for Compliance Risk High Touch Trading Desks and Development teams.

Our team is responsible for:

• Coordinating the preparation and trading of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) working closely with NYSE NASDAQ BATS and IEX.

• Investigation of user queries. E.g. order rejects trade breaks exchange issues. Liaising with clients exchanges vendors and internal teams where appropriate.

• Notifying the business units of system issues or failures in a timely manner. Communicating with global counterparts when necessary.

• Creation of new tools and automation of processes to better support and proactively monitor our environment (Python Preferred).

• Liaising with users and development teams on potential improvements to our trading applications

• Proactive & reactive monitoring of processes connections & trade flows.

• Incident and problem management adhering to ITIL framework

• Assisting Compliance/ Risk on regulatory inquiries and user permissions.

• Testing failure scenarios to identify problems and improve outage recovery procedures.

What youll bring to the role:

• Must enjoy working within a team and have the ability to communicate well cross functionally

• Ability to translate business needs into technical specifications

• Excellent problem solving skills and passion for developing new and creative solutions to complex problems

• Ability to interact with Traders and the drive to learn about securities and markets

• Good business knowledge of Equities would include the ability to demonstrate an understanding of different instruments and how and where they trade. This would also include the ability to describe an order book and the different order types that can be used

• Understanding of SQL and Sybase databases.

• Understanding of operating systems (UNIX PC)

• Understanding of real time distributed application architectures and experience with message based protocols e.g. FIX.

• Incident management skills - Ability to own issues from start to finish with a commitment to determining root cause and follow ups.

• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python

• Knowledge of Agile methodology and cycle is a plus

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley we raise manage and allocate capital for our clients helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way thats differentiated and weve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first doing the right thing leading with exceptional ideas committing to diversity and inclusion and giving back - arent just beliefs they guide the decisions we make every day to do whats best for our clients communities and more than 80000 employees in 1200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley youll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. Theres also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $90000 and $135000 per year at the commencement of employment. However base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package which depending on the position may also include commission earnings incentive compensation discretionary bonuses other short and long-term incentive packages and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanleys goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race color religion creed age sex sex stereotype gender gender identity or expression transgender sexual orientation national origin citizenship disability marital and civil partnership/union status pregnancy veteran or military service status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).