VP – Lead Software Engineer

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 and Client Activities team at Parametric:

• We are responsible for the development of Parametric's proprietary investment systems technologies, including our Portfolio construction, trading and compliance for fixed income and derivatives portfolio management systems.
• We are building financial software to realize complex opportunities using advanced quantitative strategies, enabling clients to optimize portfolios for their investment objectives.
• We are technology-driven and building for scale and resilience, enabling our business to support clients with improved efficiency and reduced operational risk and staging its solutions for rapid market share growth

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Lead Software Engineer on the Fixed Income Investments Systems team is responsible for providing technical leadership for a set of applications across the technology platform. Foremost, the role will be responsible for architecting and delivering a highly scalable and resilient set of central services that will advance the integration and scalability of the broader proprietary technology platform.
The role will report into the Director, Fixed Income Investment Systems, and work closely with technical leads and managers across Parametric's technology team. The person in this role will lead a team of few engineers as they design, build, and support the next generation of services that support all aspects of the platform, with a focus on corporate bonds investment strategies. The role is also responsible for identifying priorities, managing deliveries with stakeholders across the technology team.
A critical objective for Lead Software Engineer, Investment Operations is to architect and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, leveraging cloud native technologies, designing and implementing micro-services and a relentless focus on performance and resilience.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Utilize programming and quantitative skills to create efficiencies for portfolio managers, analysts and traders with the primary goal of improving systems.

- Work closely with investment professionals and other team members to understand and document requirements in order to provide solutions to complex business problems.

- Work towards a long-term goal of specializing in development areas, including but not limited to: front-end interfaces, data analytics, back-end design, and data architecture.

- Work towards building the strategic Fixed Income portfolio management platform and unifying the workflows/services for different Fixed income subgroups

- Lead team of developers, manages their plan and performance

JOB REQUIREMENTS

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science strongly preferred

- 8+ years of software development experience programming with Java

- 6+ years of Financial services working experience and familiarity with fixed income is preferred

- A minimum of one or more of the following skills required:

• 5+ years of experience with Databases (SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience with cloud native development, preferably on AWS.
• Exposure to web-based UI development, e.g., Angular, React, or similar

- Excellent communication and ability to collaborate well with both technical and non-technical users

- Experience with Python is preferred.

- Strong math orientation and numerical aptitude

- Interest in combining technical skills with Finance and business level understanding

- A creative, self-confident self-motivator with a can do spirit.

- Ability to collaborate and partner across a diverse teams effectively.

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:

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 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.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $110,000 and $225,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
 

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).