Morgan Stanley

Vice President - Java Lead Developer - Technology

Posted On

Aug. 29, 2024

Location

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Oct. 2, 2024

Job Description

Morgan Stanley

Vice President_Java Lead Developer_Technology

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.

Institutional Securities Technology

Institutional Securities Technology (IST) develops and oversees the overall technology strategy and bespoke technology solutions to drive and enable the institutional businesses and enterprise-wide functions. IST’s ‘clients’ include Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, Prime Brokerage and Global Capital Markets.

Job Profile

IST – Equity Swaps Technology (EST)
The EST department is responsible for the technology solutions required by the hugely successful global Equity Swaps business, supporting OTC Delta One Structured Products including Equity Swap Portfolio, Single Name and Index derivatives businesses.
A wide variety of technologies are in use, including UI, server side, a variety of relational database and document stores and several messaging solutions. High volumes and large datasets are the normal and systems are designed to be able to both process current volumes, but also scale horizontally.
With significantly increasing trading volumes and a healthy backlog of features, EST are looking to expand their global team to support a number of development programmes.

Role
This is a VP (Java / Python) lead position in the EST group. This is an exciting role for a self-starter who has a thirst for new challenges as well as new technologies.
Key responsibilities for this role include –
• Building high-quality technology solutions for the distributed server-side components.
• Designing and implementing testing strategies for large, distributed server-side components focusing on stability, performance, and correctness of the applications.
• Implementing innovative strategies to stabilize and improve release cadence.
• Liaising with the global development team, stakeholders, and senior management to manage software release cycles.

This is a senior role, and the candidate should have previously demonstrated the leadership of a small or sizeable team of developers in addition to proficiency with hands-on development activities. The candidate should demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and responsibility for the delivery of initiatives / projects. The candidate should possess good analytical skills, strong software engineering skills, a logical approach to problem solving, be able to work in a fast-paced environment liaising with demanding stakeholders to understand complex requirements and be able to prioritize work under pressure with minimal supervision. A willingness to be flexible and to get involved with activities outside of the core role, such as an involvement in the global support rota, participation in the architecture documentation and review process etc. is important.
This team and role are ideal for someone looking for a strong career development path with many opportunities to grow, learn and develop.

Primary Skills

Skills Required

• 10 - 15 Years total IT expereince
• 3-5 years of experience in leading development initiatives / projects.
• Hands-on Java server-side development experience.
• Advanced scripting experience with Python on the Linux platform.
• Advanced SQL query language knowledge (Sybase ASE and/or DB2 is preferred)
• Agile development principle, methodologies, and DevOps adoption of CI/CD/CM and SRE principles
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong fundamentals of domain/event/message driven architecture
• Good problem solving and analytical skills with strong knowledge of Data Structures/Algorithms

Good To have Skills

Skills Desired:
• 10 - 15 years of IT expereince, Engineering from a premium institute
• Experience with Web Technologies (Angular / React).
• Experience with database performance tuning.

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.

Jobs at Mumbai

Capgemini

Contract Management Consultant

Experienced

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Vice President - Java Lead Developer - Technology Apply Now

Job Description

Jobs at Mumbai

More Jobs at Morgan Stanley

Actively Recruiting Companies at Mumbai, Maharashtra

Vice President - Java Lead Developer - Technology