Vice President

Morgan Stanley's market leading institutional equity derivatives business is powered by a world class technology platform from front to back. Our platform manages the processing of Structured Products and OTC's for the exotic derivatives business. This is a complex business area requiring smart, innovative, and self-sufficient developers to work closely with sales, trading and quants.

As the business continues to grow, we are undertaking a program of change to increase our external connectivity via REST and FIX; as well as a strong focus on improving our pricing tools. We are looking to build out a cloud ready, horizontally scalable pricing system with zero downtime and single click deployment capability. This is an opportunity to get involved in shaping the pricing strategy and tooling.

Reflecting the global nature of our business and systems, the team is distributed between London, New York, Montreal, Hong Kong and Mumbai. We are active in many out of work activities both socially and volunteering our time through various firm sponsored initiatives.

Existing Tech Stack:
> Java (8+)
> Python
> HTML 5, CSS3, Angular
> Git, Teamcity, Jenkins, Stash
> Globally distributed n-tier platform deployed across Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and New York
> Utilization of the latest Firm technologies including Treadmill PaaS, Splunk-based LaaS and Service Discovery
Role Profile:
> You will be a proficient Java developer, who will be hands on, in a delivery focused role.
> You will be mentoring the developer.
> You will be involved in the design and architecture of the system
> You will have strong product knowledge of equity derivatives and ideally structured products and OTC's.
> You will have strong communications skills to build a strong relationship with business stakeholders including sales, trading and quants.
> You will be a proactive member of an agile development team, focusing on efficient application delivery to meet business KPI's.
> You will encourage innovation and set technical guardrails for the development team.
> You will help develop and lead the technology strategy within the department, as well as ensuring it aligns with the global technology strategy.
> Opportunity to work with front end application development in HTML 5, Angular and scripting in python.
> You will help implement and ensure the team follows SDLC best practices.




> Experience designing and architecting high throughput large scale distributed system.
> Hands on experience working on the Java, spring boot language.
> Experience with application integration, software design patterns, frameworks, unit testing, automated testing, performance / memory analysis, and n-tier service-oriented architecture.
> Experience of Agile development techniques and a deep understanding of systems engineering, build and release management principles including continuous integration and continuous delivery.
> Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience.
> Experience in sales and trading platforms in Equities / FX / Fixed Income / Derivatives domain would be a plus.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 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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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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