Required now Vice President - Java Developer - Investment Management

Job Description

* About Morgan STanley 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 Firms employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com . 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 Parametrics 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 The Team The Equity Investments and Client Activities team at Parametric:
• We are building financial software that solves for some of the world s most complex financial opportunities. This includes building solutions to provide customized direct index exposure while making tax sensitive asset selection to improve overall after-tax portfolio returns.
• We design and build financial software responsible for the account life cycle that starts with the onboarding of accounts, managing all client activities and investment instructions, and finally managing equity investment accounts at scale.
General Description We are looking for individuals that have a strong curiosity and passion for learning new things, while continuously challenging oneself to build things better and more scalable. The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership, project management, process development, training and support. The role will work across and within the Equity Investments and Client Activities team as well as Core Services and externally facing Digital Team. This role will enhance the Direct Indexing business priorities, to design and develop technology solutions, and to improve business processes. This role spans across many services within the team building out underlying components that will provide critical services to the Equity Portfolio Management Platform. These services will help streamline the rule-based portfolio analytics, order generation and straight through processing allow for exception driven portfolio management. This position will report into the Equity and Activity Services team and work closely with team leads across Technology teams, Business Analysis as well as Business Partners. In this role, you will lead developers and projects and provide mentoring opportunities to the development team. A critical objective for this role is to support the architecture and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, leveraging AWS cloud native technologies, designing and implementing micro-services and a relentless focus on performance and resilience. Primary Responsibilities
• Design and develop proprietary solutions for the Equity Direct Indexing portfolio management teams
• Provide technical leadership to other Software Engineers.
• Design, develop, and maintain services and API to support various business needs
• Leverage scalable and distributed computing principles to build the next generation of services
• Ensures that software solutions remain integrated, efficient, and appropriate for a highly regulated industry.
• Create unit/integration/functional/performance tests
• Mentor new or less senior developers
• Conduct code reviews of other developers
• Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
, * Job QUALIFICATIONS SkILL SET Required Experience: 10+ yearsSkill set: Software design / Dev/ Java / J2EE / relational database Primary Skills
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related area of study
• 10+ years of hands-on development experience managing all aspects of technical projects with a proven track record of delivering well architected and well written software solutions.
• Experience supervising and guiding software development teams and fostering an engaging, collaborative environment.
• 5+ Years of hands-on Java/J2EE software design and development experience
• Strong aptitude for highly efficient data structures and algorithms
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL
• Working knowledge of NoSQL database engines such as Redis, Cassandra, or MongoDB
• Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments.
  • Vision and strategy
  • Influencing and consensus building
  • Communication
  • Total quality commitment
  • Ownership and accountability
  • Project management
• A creative, self-confident self-motivator with a can do spirit.
• Passionate, forward thinking and creative individual with high ethical standards and integrity.
• Ability to collaborate and partner across a diverse team tapping the strength and unique skills of every team member.
• Assertiveness balanced with a sensitivity toward and concern for people. The ability to create strong work ethics and committed teams, foster open dialogue, and promote individual and team success.
• Effective communication skills with business users and other developers
Good to Have Skills
• C# and React experience
• Cloud native development experience a plus: AWS is preferred
• Asset management 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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