Application Development-Executive Director-Wealth Management Technology

About Us

At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions and individuals, and always do so with a standard of excellence. We are a leading global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments: Institutional Securities, Wealth Management (WM), and Investment Management. The Firms employees serve clients worldwide from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture. Divisional Overview

Department Description

MS At Work Technology is part of Wealth & Investment technology delivers solutions and services primarily supporting Corporate business comprising of Corporate Stock Plans, Executive Financial Services, 10B5-1 Plans, Retirement solution. As market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. We are committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging for all employees. We acknowledge and celebrate different cultures, perspectives and backgrounds reflected in our workforce.

Role Requirements

Looking for a senior leader with a pioneering mindset to lead the Stock Plan Services technology team in India. The team provides application development, platform enhancement and reengineering to the Corporate Services clients and business users. The candidate will work with the product, business users as well as with other IT teams across the Wealth Management organization for implementing multi-platform technology solutions.

The position requires the ability to play multiple roles of Coach, Manager, Leader, Architect and Development Manager. The candidate will participate with other technology leaders to set future strategy and be responsible for oversight to the on-going projects and interact with a culturally and technically diverse community from DB, API, and full-stack developers, project/program managers to engineering/infrastructure teams and executive management. The role requires effectively managing projects, teams, and vendors.

The Candidate will play a key role in managing the team and will:

• Work with senior business & product partners and Program Management team to define strategy and deliver solutions.
• Evaluate the projects architecture and identify opportunities for broadening the scope of the solution
• Help with deepening Gen AI, agile adoption, and processes to increase productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness across distributed resources pools.
• Help rationalization and modernization of technology platforms
• Meet regulatory and risk expectations * Partner with LOB on target platform solution and priorities
• Resource planning, employee engagement and retention
• Be self-motivated, flexible, highly adaptable, excellent team player and mentor, and be prepared to work in a global virtual team along with US and India team members.
  
  

Skills Required

12+ years of managing development teams in a high paced, pressure-oriented environment

• Proven track record managing the development of large scale multi-tiered applications in a distributed, web & cloud environments
• Exposure to adopting frameworks and extending frameworks for development
• Strong people management and development skills
• Demonstrated track record of managing multiple development projects
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to develop and foster relationships with other leaders & resources outside of direct control
• Experience of adopting and implementing Agile
• Experience with performance trouble shooting and remediation
  
  

Technical Skills

Languages - Proficient in CORE Java/J2EE, Concurrency, Generics, Transactions, JDBC, Spring

• Experience with Multi-threading, Asynchronous code, Garbage collector tuning, Memory profiling, Transaction management
• Database: Relational database design, Schema modelling, Indexing, Performance tuning
• Messaging: Either one of IBM MQ, JMS or Kafka
• Minimum 5+ years experience of designing Distributed applications, Fault tolerance and recovery, Performance Engineering, Scaling
• Exposure on Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines, Mature DevOps practices like A/B testing, Blue-Green/Canary deployments, Trunk based development
  
  

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 whats 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 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.

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