Morgan Stanley

We’re seeking someone to join our team as a Technical Lead/Delivery Lead with strong development background in Java to join our established team in London. This role will sit within the Global Asset Servicing technology team, part of the Operations Technology division. The Asset Servicing team supports the firm’s global corporate actions processing systems across both the Institutional Equities and Wealth Management divisions – A critical system supporting key departments such as Operations, Wealth Management, Prime Brokerage and Traders, as well as external clients.

You should be energetic, highly motivated and dynamic with experience working in an agile environment coupled with excellent, development, communication, and organizational skills. The role will require working with stakeholders globally and across divisions and knowledge of broad spectrum of assets classes. The candidate will work in a global team spread across other locations in Mumbai, London and New York.

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 engineering position at VP level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, continuously 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:

• Provide technical leadership and vision for software development projects.
• Define technical architecture and roadmap for large-scale, mission-critical systems.
• Establish and communicate departmental goals and objectives aligned with business priorities.
• Lead a team of software engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and performance evaluations.
• Manage resource allocation, project timelines, and budget for software development initiatives.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to ensure project success.
• Oversee the execution of software development projects, ensuring quality and on-time delivery.
• Drive the recruitment and retention of top technical talent for the team.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to shape technology strategy and roadmap.
• Represent the software engineering team in cross-functional discussions and planning sessions.
• You will work as senior application developer on an in-house developed system that manages the life-cycle processing of Asset Servicing events (also known as Corporate Actions).
• You will be responsible for the hands-on management of all the phases of the Software Development Lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, coding, testing and deployment.
• You will collaborate with partner teams including Asset Servicing ISG and WM Operations, Client Service Representatives and Application Support Groups.
• The projects worked on will form part of a multi-year program to renovate the Firm’s Global Asset Servicing technology platform.
• The role will provide exposure to a wide variety of different business units and asset classes within the Institutional Securities Group and Wealth Management divisions.We’re looking for a self-starter who is comfortable managing their own and other team member’s workload within a collaborative, team driven environment. Hands-on coding experience is essential.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record of leading high-performance engineering teams.
• Strategic planning and execution of engineering projects.
• Ability to align technology initiatives with business objectives.
• Strong people management skills and fostering a collaborative team culture.
• Experience in budgeting, resource allocation, and project governance.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlet, JavaScript, AJAX, Unix/Linux Shell Scripting, SQL, DB2, XML, JSON, DHTML, CSS
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field required
• At least 10+ years of hands-on application development and delivery utilizing distributed technologies such as Unix, Java, J2EE Java framework etc.
• Experience in the development of service-oriented architecture application, good understanding of Object-Oriented Design, Design Patterns and data structure algorithms.
• Strong knowledge of Java Server Pages (JSP), DHTML and JavaScript
• Proven technology architecture skills delivery high performance and high transaction volume distributed application
• Experience with MVC patterned applications using Struts or Spring
• Experience with writing SQL including stored procedures
• Experience with Unix Shell and Python Scripting
• Strong analytical and design skills, including the ability to understand business requirements and translate them into efficient and effective technical designs that work well within large-scale, well-structured enterprise environments
• Excellent trouble-shooting skills, with the ability to quickly identify and document the root cause of issues, and effectively communicate possible resolutions
• Agile development practice
• Provide overall project management, local leadership and be a mentor to the staff
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Excellent collaboration and team skills.

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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 89 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.

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