About Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services.

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 can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Team Profile:

Morgan Stanley's market leading institutional equity derivatives business is powered by a world class technology platform from front to back. Our platform manages the processing of Structured Products and OTCs for the exotic derivatives business. This is a complex business area requiring smart, innovative, and self-sufficient developers to work closely with sales, trading, and quants.

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. Our strongest location in terms of numbers is London, the ideal time zone for running a global team and where many of our business sponsors are also located. We are active in many out of work activities both socially and volunteering our time through various firm sponsored initiatives.

What we’re looking for:

•       You will be a proficient Java developer, who will be hands on, in a delivery focused role.
•       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.

Primary skills:

•       Experience in sales and trading platforms in Equities / FX / Fixed Income / Derivatives domain.
•       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.
•       Practical Experience building Java Applications. Specifically, Spring Boot Applications.
•       Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience.

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
•       Utilisation of the latest Firm technologies including Treadmill PaaS, Splunk-based LaaS and Service Discovery

Flexible work statement:  

Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more. 

Internal Applicants:

Internal mobility can be a way to grow your career and realize your professional potential. Typically, you must be in your position for at least 18 months and performing satisfactorily before applying for another job at the Firm. Internal applicants can find out more regarding career navigation, mobility guidelines and policy on our employee portal by clicking here. 

Equal opportunities statement:

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize 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.