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Morgan Stanley

JAVA Technical Lead/ - Vice President - IST (Institutional Securities Technology)

Profile Description

We’re seeking someone to join our team as (Vice President) JAVA/J2EE Application Development Lead for our market leading institutional equity derivatives business. It is powered by a world class technology that manages the processing of Structured Products and OTC's for the exotic derivatives business from front to Back

IST (Institutional Securities Technology)

Institutional Securities Technology (IST) develops and oversees the overall technology strategy and bespoke technology solutions to drive and enable the institutional businesses and enterprise-wide functions. IST’s ‘clients’ include Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, Prime Brokerage and Global Capital Markets.

ESTAR

Develops trading & Analytics platform for IST, structured OTC Trading, Market Making & risk platform
for IED

Technical Specialist

This is a Vice President position within our Technical Specialist function, which is responsible for providing extensive subject matter expertise and reinforcing the ability of business and technology audit teams to appropriately assess risk and determine and execute coverage.

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.

At Morgan Stanley India, we support the Firm’s global businesses, with critical presence across Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment management, as well as in the Firm’s infrastructure functions of Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Legal and Corporate & Enterprise Services. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in India since 1993, with campuses in both Mumbai and Bengaluru. We empower our multi-faceted and talented teams to advance their careers and make a global impact on the business. For those who show passion and grit in their work, there’s ample opportunity to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on…

What you’ll do in the role:

As the business continues to grow, we are undertaking a program of change to increase our external connectivity via REST and FIX; as well as a strong focus on improving our pricing tools. We are looking to build out a cloud ready, horizontally scalable pricing system with zero downtime and single click deployment capability. This is an opportunity to get involved in shaping the pricing strategy and tooling.
Reflecting the global nature of our business and systems, the team is distributed between London, New York, Montreal, Hong Kong and Mumbai. We are active in many out of work activities both socially and volunteering our time through various firm sponsored initiatives.
Existing Tech Stack:
• Java (8+)
• Python
• HTML 5, CSS3, Angular
• Git, Teamcity, Jenkins, Stash
Globally distributed n-tier platform deployed across Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and New York
Utilization of the latest Firm technologies including Treadmill PaaS, Splunk-based LaaS and Service Discovery

Roles & Responsibilities:
• You will be a proficient Java developer, who will be hands on, in a delivery focused role.
• You will be mentoring the developer.
• You will be involved in the design and architecture of the system
• You will have strong product knowledge of equity derivatives and ideally structured products and OTC's.
• You will have strong communications skills to build a strong relationship with business stakeholders including sales, trading and quants.
• You will be a proactive member of an agile development team, focusing on efficient application delivery to meet business KPI's.
• You will encourage innovation and set technical guardrails for the development team.
• You will help develop and lead the technology strategy within the department, as well as ensuring it aligns with the global technology strategy.
• Opportunity to work with front end application development in HTML 5, Angular and scripting in python.
• You will help implement and ensure the team follows SDLC best practices.

What you’ll bring to the role:

 

• At least 4 years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role

• Experience designing and architecting high throughput large scale distributed system.

• Hands on experience working on the Java, spring boot language.

• Experience with application integration, software design patterns, frameworks, unit testing, automated testing, performance / memory analysis, and n-tier service-oriented architecture.

• Experience of Agile development techniques and a deep understanding of systems engineering, build and release management principles including continuous integration and continuous delivery.

• Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience.

• Experience in sales and trading platforms in Equities / FX / Fixed Income / Derivatives domain would be a plus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What you can expect from Morgan Stanley

 

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 85 years. At our foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide our more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find trusted colleagues, committed mentors and a culture that values diverse perspectives, individual intellect and cross-collaboration. Our Firm is differentiated by the caliber of our diverse team, while our company culture and commitment to inclusion define our legacy and shape our future, helping to strengthen our business and bring value to clients around the world. Learn more about how we put this commitment to action: morganstanley.com/diversity. 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 Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.