Java Lead Software Engineer - Vice President - Software Engineering

Java Lead Software Engineer - Vice President - Software Engineering

Profile Description 

We’re seeking someone to join our FRPPE Tech team as a Java Lead Software Engineer, in Operations Tech to work on Java Application Development and Designing with good exposure on Java, Microservices, System Design, Database Management.

About Super Department: 

Operations Technology develops and maintains systems in support of Morgan Stanley's global Operations, including (but not limited to) Settlements, Confirmations, Regulatory Reporting, Position Keeping, Corporate Actions processing and other post-trade functions. Operations Technology is a global organization that is client-focused and functionally aligned. Our organization is built to support our clients functional, regional and business-facing requirements while delivering innovative technology and ensuring plant and processing stability. The Firm operates at scale with up to 40 million trades processed on peak volume days and hundreds of billions of dollars of daily settlements with activity ongoing in multiple countries and currencies across the globe. There is a great breadth of financial products that our Operations plant handles across equity and fixed income, from cash products to complex derivatives and loans.

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 Engineer position at Vice President Level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintains 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. 

What you’ll 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 you’ll bring to the role: 

• Hands-on, with 8+ years’ experience in building distributed systems applying agile practices.

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

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

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

• 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.

• At least 6 years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role.

Skills desired (recommended):

• 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.

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.

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.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.