Java Software Engineer Vice President

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 Firm's 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 Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT THE TEAM:
The Investment Systems 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 scalable multi-asset portfolio management solutions, secure platforms for creating financial applications and low-code workflows, and a core data platform that delivers trusted financial data.

ABOUT THE ROLE:
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 Principal Software Engineer is responsible for providing both technical and people leadership, project delivery, process development, training and support. The role partners across the Equity Investments and Client Activities team, Core Services, and the externally facing Digital Team to design and develop technology solutions that support Direct Indexing business priorities and improve business processes. The role spans multiple services within the team, building out underlying components that provide critical services to the Equity Portfolio Management Platform. These services help streamline rule-based portfolio analytics, order generation and straight through processing enabling exception driven portfolio management.

This position will report into the Investments & Innovation Platform 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  by directly managing a team of engineers, guiding and mentoring them to achieve their highest potential while collectively advancing the goals and projects of the engineering team.

• Drive vision and strategy for the team while exemplifying strong leadership skills, including communication, consensus building, elevated standards, ownership, accountability, and project management.

• 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

• Conduct code reviews of other developers

• Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity

• Maintain regular collaboration with teams and stakeholders in the US West Coast time zone, including flexibility to support overlapping working hours when needed.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS
Required Experience: 12+ years
Skill set: Software design / Dev/ Java / J2EE / relational database

Primary Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area of study

• 12+ 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.

• 3+ years of managing software development teams and providing direct guidance, mentorship, project leadership, and team development while fostering an engaging, collaborative environment and building strong cross-team relationships

• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience

• Experience with microservices and distributed systems

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
  Strong aptitude for highly efficient data structures and algorithms

• Cloud native development experience a plus: AWS is preferred

• Exposure to event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka)

• Working knowledge of SQL , RDBMS ,NoSQL database engines such as Redis & DynamoDB

• Experience using enterprise AI development tools, including GitHub Copilot Enterprise and GitHub Spec Kit, to enable AI-powered Specification-Driven Development.

• Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments.

• Demonstrated initiative, ownership, and a results-oriented approach to solving complex business and technology challenges.

• Demonstrated sound judgment, integrity, and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes in a collaborative environment.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.

• Familiarity with AI and related technologies, with the ability to apply them in a business or technical context

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with React or modern front-end frameworks

• Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL

• Asset management experience

• Experience governing enterprise AI agents through secure access, auditability, human oversight, and emerging standards.

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

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.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.