Morgan Stanley

Cyber Security Principal Engineer, Executive Director

Glasgow

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 42 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

Cyber Data Risk & Resilience:

The mission of Cyber Data Risk & Resilience (CDRR) is to deliver first-line defences to manage risks to Firm technology, information and cyber threats through risk identification, control management and assurance. This allows the business to operate and grow in a secure and legally compliant manner. Our vision is to deliver Programs that protect and enable the business, ensure secure delivery of services to our clients, adjust to address the risks presented by an evolving threat landscape, meet regulatory expectations, and offer highly attractive career opportunities.

Profile Description:

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to join our Cyber Security group under CDRR. Cyber Security is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the Cyber Security Product Portfolio. We partner with the Heads of Cloud Product, Enterprise Security, Application Security and Platform Engineering on the execution of the portfolio roadmap, ensuring alignment to a strategic product and service offering that creates customer value while advancing agile culture in the organization. Our primary goal is driving early and continuous delivery of value to our customers.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Collaborate closely with engineering and AI/ML teams to understand their deployment pipelines and security requirements for the specified AI Services.
• Drive engineering best practices within the Cloud, Platform Security & Developer Enablement department.
• Building high quality technology solutions for cybersecurity.
• Re-architect core components with modern architecture focusing on high availability, resiliency, and scalability.
• Liaise with stakeholders, global team members and foster an inclusive and positive working environment in the team.
• The candidate will possess good analytical skills, strong software engineering skills, a logical approach to problem solving, be able to work in a fast-paced environment, at times liaising with demanding stakeholders, to understand complex requirements, and be able to prioritize work under pressure with minimal supervision.
• The candidate will be a problem solver who will bring positivity and enthusiasm when communicating potential solutions for architectural considerations with a can-do attitude.
• This team and role are ideal for someone looking for a strong career development path with many opportunities to grow, learn, and develop.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• At least 10+ years' relevant experience is required for this role.
• Proven technical leadership in driving architecture and engineering best practices across a high performing engineering department.
• Proven ability to influence best practices and architectural decisions beyond your immediate department.
• Excellent Java or Python skills with technologies development experience.
• Strong application design and Object-oriented skills.
• Strong fundamentals of domain/event/message driven architecture and, REST services
• Hands on experience with modern distributed technologies such as messaging brokers (e.g. Apache Kafka).
• 3+ years of hands on experience with at least one major Cloud Service Provider (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills with strong knowledge of Data Structures/Algorithms
• Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries and experience with RDBMS providers like POSTGRES, MSSQL, etc.
• Proficiency in writing complex NOSQL queries and experience with MongoDB providers.
• Agile development principle, methodologies, and DevOps adoption of CI/CD/CM/SDLC.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Skills (Optional):

• Experience with Cloud AI services including Azure AI, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Safety Content, AWS Bedrock, Anthropic on AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.
• Experience with implementing security controls and governance standards in the context of Cloud AI Service usages.
• Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) 3rd Party tools such as Wiz, Prisma, Check Point CloudGuard, etc
• Proficiency with cloud-native security & governance tooling (e.g., Azure Policy, AWS SCP & RCP , GCP Constrains, etc)
• Experience with scripting (Bash/PowerShell) and the Linux/Windows platform.
• Experience with Web technologies (Angular/React) or equivalent.

Certified Persons Regulatory Requirements

If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

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.

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.

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.

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

Certified Persons Regulatory Requirements:

If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

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.

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.