Morgan Stanley Looking for Executive Director – Technology Management at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Full Time

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals 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.

Technology/Role/Department at Morgan Stanley

Technology is the key differentiator that ensures that we manage our global businesses and serve clients on a market-leading platform that is resilient, safe, efficient, smart, fast and flexible. Technology redefines how we do business in global, complex and dynamic financial markets. We have a large number of award winning technology platforms that help to propel our Firm’s businesses to be the top in the market. Our India technology teams are based in Mumbai and Bengaluru. We have built strong techno-functional teams which partner with our offices globally taking global ownership of systems and products. We have a vibrant and diverse mix of technologists working on different technologies and functional domains. There is a large focus on innovation, inclusion, giving back to the community and sharing knowledge.

Corporate and Funding Technology (CFT) develops and oversees the overall technology strategy and bespoke technology solutions to drive and enable the firmwide businesses and enterprise-wide functions. Our clients include Fixed Income, Equities, Prime Brokerage, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research and Global Capital Markets as well as Operations, HR and Corporate Services.

Counterparty Data and Regulatory Technology, part of CFT, is responsible for firmwide infrastructure for managing counter party information, client and account onboarding and all regulatory adherences for the clients. CDRT has commenced on several strategic initiatives to better our technology and data management platform. These initiatives involve building state of the art solutions using industry standard architectural methodologies such as Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, Event Driven MOM, Service Oriented Architecture and Business Intelligence Reporting infrastructure. This position represents a unique opportunity to work with latest technologies as well as work with various IT and Business teams across the firm.

This is a senior architect and delivery lead position for CDRT Onboarding and Regulatory platform.

PIPE Platform comprises of strategic onboarding and regulatory system along with Rules framework and 6 legacy systems that are still actively leveraged for all business processes in Client Onboarding and regulatory compliance processes. This platform includes core dependency on A2 (Golden source of client data) and caching infra on top of it. 10+ squads work on the PIPE platform for various stakeholders from delivery point of view.

PIPE Roadmap for next three years involves collapsing all legacy systems, uplifting of the rules platform architecturally and offering PIPE as the single system with all business functions in the client onboarding and regulatory compliance space. Client Regulatory Services (CRS) business group aims to renovate the New client onboarding and data refresh functions from the regulatory point of view.

Given the complexity and the nature of this renovation, we need a senior leader with strong hands-on skills on distributed stack and cloud competencies who can own this multi-year transformation program. This leadership role involves managing number of squads in the CRS fleet from strategy, delivery, execution, stakeholder management and people mentoring perspective. Role provides the unique opportunity of rearchitecting the platform for critical upliftment in the regulatory space, including data and documents refresh and business rules management business processes. Leader is to coordinate development and delivery across all CRS squads, aligning to the strategic roadmap and promoting rollout of the renovated components – front2back for this transformation. This needs very close collaboration with squad leads and product owners for all these squads and at the same time keeping development team aligned to the strategic road map.

Leadership role also involves people mentoring, organizational responsibilities around team building, business unit stakeholder management, coordination with various stakeholders across the firm for delivery and team management.

Skills Required (Must Have)

The candidate must possess a strong technology background with advanced knowledge of Java and Java based technology stack.

• At least 15+ years of strong experience with enterprise-wide systems – Java, cloud and web-based distributed tech stacks
• Strong experience in managing data intensive platforms
• Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Design patterns, Architecture and Application Integration
• Strong experience in architecting scalable applications that can support 1000+ users at a time
• Hands-on experience with distributed tech stack
• Hands-on experience for cloud-based tools and tech stack to uplift the new platform for cloud deployment
• Hands-on experience with core dev-ops tooling and best practices and manage this at a platform level
• Experience in collaborating with global stakeholders for product development
• Ability to co-ordinate across large team and ensure product development per multi-year roadmap
• Consistent track record for successful delivery of enterprise wide platforms
• Ability to coach and mentor the talent on development best practices with new tech stacks – cloud esp.
• Experience in IB/Finance domain to be effective at big scale
• A background that includes strong problem solving such as system integration, infrastructure debugging, or system administration.
• Strong people management skills – ability to mentor high performing teams and build the strong culture of client-service, technical excellence and collaboration across teams.

Good To Have Skills –

• Experience with BPM tools like PEGA
• Experience in Angular

“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.”

Posting Date

Sep 9, 2024

Primary Location

Non-Japan Asia-India-Maharashtra-Mumbai (MSA)

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree

Job

Management

Employment Type

Full Time

Job Level

Executive Director