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

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and collaborates with the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. As a market leader, we consider the talent and passion of our people being critical to our success. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow.

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 Mumbai. 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.

We are looking for a Senior developer Lead at Executive Director level, preferably with exposure to Cloud Architectures & Public Cloud offerings, to join our team building a resilient, scalable, and secure cloud-based settlement platform. You will be participating in the requirements refinement sessions, working on architecture, design, and implementation - writing code and automated tests, creating CI/CD pipelines following the best software development and DevOps standards. In our 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 building large-scale distributed applications, preferably on Azure/Cloud, we'd like to meet you.

Job Responsibilities:

•            Actively participate in the refinement sessions to ensure the requirements are clearly defined.

•            Write clean, performant, scalable, testable, and reusable code and build automated tests.

•            Guide more junior developers helping them to follow the best software development practices.

•            Follow the best DevOps practices - create CI/CD pipelines, enable capturing telemetry, etc.

•            Contribute to enhancing team standards and improving processes. Skills required (essential):

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

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

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

•            Experience in designing and implementing high volume messaging- and rest- based middleware and defining database models (relational or others).

•            Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.

•            Familiarity with cloud-based development principles.

•            Fast learner and desire to constantly learn and improve.

•            Bachelor’s degree in computer science or in a related field.

•            Strong oral and written communication skills.

Skills desired (recommended):

• Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud.

• Experience with Angular.

• Familiarity and experience integrating custom software with Microsoft Dynamics 360.

• Familiarity with Kafka and Mongo DB.

• Prior experience in FinTech application development.

• Experience with working in a global delivery team.

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 that’s differentiated – and we’ve 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 - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll 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. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $195,000 and $275,000 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's 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).