Morgan Stanley

Posting Date

Apr 5, 2024

Primary Location

Non-Japan Asia-India-Maharashtra-Mumbai (MSA) Refer to Position Description

Job

Development Full Time Vice President

Description

Vice President - Java Developer - Parametric

Company Profile

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 41 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.

Technology

Technology’s mission is to ensure the Firm manages its global businesses and serves clients on a market-leading technology platform that is resilient, safe, efficient, smart, fast and flexible. We attract and nurture diverse talent to engineer innovative solutions in a complex and rapidly evolving world.

Job Profile

ABOUT PARAMETRIC

Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 2-3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT TEAM

The Core Services team at Parametric:

• Primarily focuses on developing highly resilient and scalable core data services on AWS cloud providing unified API interface across business domains.
• Leverage NoSql database, Spring Boot, Java, Python, React and AWS native applications such as S3, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS/EKS for Docker container orchestration, DynamoDB etc.
• Primary Application currently under development is used to reconcile trade data.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for design, development, and integration of various new and existing technology solutions that support various aspects of our investment management processes. This role will require extensive interaction and communication, requirements gathering across various other teams in the organization and implementation leveraging best in class technologies and will lead development of microservices and API's on AWS cloud. The Lead Software Engineer will also be responsible for providing thought leadership and people leadership to delivery teams while also contributing directly to the design, development, delivery and support of custom developed applications.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide flexible solutions to complex business problems using our technology best practices
• Design and develop cloud native (AWS) micro-services with primary focus on correctness and performance
• General understanding of API gateways, security entitlements and event-based system desired
• Integrate with other services in the ecosystem or public API's and databases
• Apply best in class engineering principles, optimized algorithms, and data structure techniques
• Create unit/integration/functional tests
• Conduct code reviews of other developers and participate in git merge reviews
• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
• Research new cloud apps/open-source technologies and incorporate in existing services/API's
• Mentor other developers
• Conduct code reviews of other developers
• Provide technical leadership to other Software Engineers

Qualifications

Skill Set

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

SKILL SET

Required Experience: 10+ years

Skill set: Java / Cloud Development (AWS preferred) / Microservices Architecture/ REST

PRIMARY SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering required
• 10+ years of hands-on Java development experience with primary focus on backend systems
• 3+ years supervising and guiding software development teams and fostering an engaging, collaborative environment
• 2+ years experience in cloud native services development (AWS preferred)
• Knowledge about orchestration services, Docker and Kubernetes desired
• Experience in event-based architectures and messaging platforms like Kafka is desired
• Experience architecting projects integrating across systems
• Understanding of micro-services architecture/containerization
• Proven experience with test driven development
• Familiarity with GIT version control system
• Working experience with agile development
• Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools like Maven or Gradle
• Hands-on experience with RDBMS and/or NoSql databases like DynamoDB/Redis
• Effective communication skills with business users and other developers
• Financial services, especially asset management industry experience

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with JavaScript/ExtJS/React development
• Multi-threading programming
• Python development
• Knowledge of distributed systems like Apache Cassandra

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

Qualifications/Criterion

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 10+ Years of experience

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

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