Lead Java Software Engineer Backend (VP)

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 Lead Software Engineering position at Vice President level which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

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

Global Security Settlements Team Profile
Our platform provides one of the most critical functions enabling the firm to effect security settlements in all the markets the firm conducts the business in. On peak volume days the Firm processes up to forty million trades and effects settlements worth of hundreds of billions of dollars for activity ongoing in multiple countries and currencies across the globe.
Our team has significant presence in Montreal New York and India. We are organized into agile squads closely aligned with product owners users and other stakeholders which allows us to directly observe the business benefit of the solutions we develop deploy and support. We believe in the forward momentum and progress of technology and our goal is to apply the best tools and practices to deliver exceptional capabilities for our business users.

Role

We in Securities Settlements Tech are looking for a VP (Lead Software Engineer) in New York preferably with exposure to Cloud Architectures & Public Cloud offerings to join our team building a large resilient scalable and secure distributed settlement platform. You will be a leader building software and managing huge volume of data to support and improve efficiency of firms settlement related activities. Working in an agile environment you will have to interact directly with the users product owners business analysts and other technologists across the firm. If you have a track record of leading a team and delivering large-scale distributed applications preferably on Azure/Cloud wed like to meet you.

What youll do in the role:

• Collaborate with product owners business analysts and other teams to clarify the requirements define milestones and backlog based on business priorities team capability and velocity.

• Drive the definition of system architecture and design.

• Write clean performant scalable testable and reusable code.

• Review pull requests and guide more junior developers helping them to adopt the best design coding and testing practices.

• Guide the team to follow the best DevOps practices and enhance observability availability and resiliency.

• Act as an end-to-end owner ensuring the system is developed tested deployed as planned and is performing as expected in production environments.

• Contribute to enhancing team standards and improving processes.

What youll bring to the role:

• Hands-on with 10 years experience in building distributed systems applying agile practices.

• Experience in owning a delivery end-to-end and leading a development team comprised of Backend and/or Data Engineers

• Strong working knowledge of core Java and Spring frameworks including spring-boot and testing.

• Strong working knowledge of AI spec driven development and leveraging AI tools to accelerate SDLC and software development

• Proven expertise in designing developing and maintaining robust RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs. Demonstrated understanding of API versioning strategies backward compatibility documentation practices

• Strong understanding of managing and scaling high volume databases. Experience in MS SQL Snowflake Mongo DB preferred.

• Sound understanding of microservice architecture and design patterns system resiliency scalability security and observability.

• Experience in designing and implementing messaging- and rest- based middleware and performing databases modelling.

• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Understanding of Cloud-based application development preferably with Microsoft Azure Cloud.

• Familiarity with Kafka and Mongo DB.

• Experience Angular UI development framework.

• Experience coordinating and mentoring a development team.

• Prior experience in FinTech application development.

• Experience with working in a global delivery team.

We have a track record of innovation and passion for unlocking new opportunities we help our clients raise manage and allocate capital. We do this by offering a wide range of investment banking securities wealth management and asset management services.

All that we do at Morgan Stanley is driven by our five core values: do the right thing put clients first lead with exceptional ideas commit to diversity and inclusion and give back. These arent just beliefs they guide the decisions we make every day ensuring we do whats best for our clients communities and more than 80000 employees around the world. And at the core of our success are the people who drive it - relentless collaborators and creative thinkers who are fueled by diverse thinking and experiences.

Wherever you are in our 1200 global offices youll have the opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are empowered to achieve your full potential. 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.
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).

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 $150000 and $210000 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 Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion where individuals are hired developed and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate bringing a variety of backgrounds talents perspectives and experiences.

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