Sr. Python Engineer VP

About Us

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking securities investment management and wealth management services. The Firms employees serve clients worldwide including corporations governments and individuals from more than 1200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together we share a common set of values rooted in integrity excellence and strong team ethic. We provide you a superior foundation for building a professional career where you can learn achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

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Department Profile

Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced and ambitious candidate to join their Record Archive Service (RAS) group. The group is responsible for managing and supporting multiple Archives platform (Archive 360 CMOD and ERA) to meet Firms Regulatory obligations.

Role Summary

This role is a VP Software Architect responsible for building modernizing and operating enterprisescale data records archiving solutions that support Morgan Stanleys regulatory legal and data lifecycle obligations.

The VP will actively engineer and modernize platforms spanning Archive360 (A360) IBM CMOD and other internal tools (ERA etc.) evolving legacy Perl/Java/Shellbased ingestion monitoring entitlement and disposition tooling into Pythonfirst cloudready AIenabled solutions.

A core expectation of this role is to continuously improve efficiencyreducing cost latency manual effort and operational friction while increasing throughput reliability and auditability.

Key Responsibilities

1) HandsOn Engineering & Delivery

• Build and modernize Pythonbased services tools and automation for data records archiving platforms.
• Reengineer legacy Perl/Shell/Java tooling used for:
  • Archive ingestion and reconciliation
  • Dropzone hygiene and monitoring
  • Entitlements and access controls
  • Disposition retention validation and reporting
• Personally lead complex refactors performance tuning and production issue resolution.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines test automation and secure SDLC practices for archiverelated systems.
• Participate in incident response RCA and remediation for archive ingestion retrieval or compliance issues.

2) Electronic Records Archiving Modernization & Migration

• Modernize archival workflows across Archive360 ERA and IBM CMOD platforms.
• Drive migrations such as:
  • ERA Archive360 ingestion and metadata remediation
  • Legacy batch/script pipelines Pythonbased orchestration
  • Filebased/manual processes resilient observable services
• Ensure compliance with WORM SEC 17a4 retention schedules legal/tax holds and disposition controls.
• Own migration execution artifacts: cutover plans rollback strategies reconciliation evidence and audit support.

3) Architecture & Design

• Define Pythonfirst performanceaware architectures for archiving platforms.
• Make design decisions that balance:
  • Cost efficiency
  • Processing speed and scalability
  • Regulatory risk and auditability
• Produce concise architecture artifacts (C4 ADRs ingestion/disposition flows) that directly support efficient delivery.
• Review designs and implementations to ensure efficiency considerations are embedded earlynot added later.

4) Cloud & Platform Enablement

• Design and implement cloudready archive tooling (public/private/hybrid) including:
  • Secure ingestion pipelines
  • Metadata processing and enrichment
  • Monitoring alerting and reporting
• Implement infrastructureascode and environment parity for archive platforms.
• Embed security controls: IAM encryption key management entitlement enforcement and audit logging.

5) AIAssisted Engineering & Innovation

• Apply AI tools to accelerate:
  • Code refactoring and modernization of legacy archive tooling
  • Automated test generation for ingestion and disposition workflows
  • Documentation and runbook creation
• Explore AIassisted automation for archive operations (triage anomaly detection reconciliation support).
• Ensure responsible AI usage with human oversight and compliance alignment.

6) Collaboration Governance & Influence

• Partner closely with Records Management Legal Compliance Data Governance and Platform teams.
• Mentor engineers on Python best practices archive domain patterns and regulatoryaware design.
• Influence technical direction through execution quality and subjectmatter expertise.
• Communicate risks tradeoffs and progress clearly to senior technology leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 12 years of enterprise software engineering experience with strong modernization ownership.
• Advanced handson expertise in Python for building production services and automation.
• Proven experience modernizing records archiving or data lifecycle platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of Perl Shell and Java for legacy assessment and migration.
• Deep understanding of Unix/Linux batch processing and highvolume file ingestion systems.
• Experience operating in regulated auditheavy environments.

Technical Skills

Core (PythonFirst)

• Python (advanced): services tooling concurrency packaging dependency management
• Testing: unit/integration/contract testing for ingestion and disposition flows
• APIs messaging batch orchestration idempotency and error handling

Archiving Domain

• Archive ingestion reconciliation and retrieval patterns
• Retention schedules legal/tax holds WORM compliance
• Disposition workflows and evidence generation
• Platforms: Archive360 ERA IBM CMOD (or equivalent)

Cloud & Operations

• Containers orchestration platforms
• Infrastructure as Code
• Observability performance tuning RCA participation

AI & Automation

• AI coding assistants and refactoring tools
• Workflow automation and agentbased tooling (nice to have)

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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