Application Developer

Application Developer (Entitlements & LST)

Company Profile

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, achieve and grow.

Technology

The Technology division partners with our business units to redefine how we do business in more global and dynamic financial markets. Our sizeable investment in Technology results in leading-edge tools, software, and systems. Our insights, applications, and infrastructure give a competitive edge to our Clients and businesses.

Position Description

The Strategic Entitlements team within Institutional Securities Technology (IST) is looking for a strong Application Developer to drive the technical implementation of strategic initiatives in the entitlements space. In this role, not only you will design and develop applications, libraries, tools and components that will strengthen the control posture of our Division, but you will do so as part of a best-in-class, global team.

Responsibilities:

•             Design, develop and maintain highly-available API’s to support regulatory reporting. Support other technical teams in the integration with these API’s, in addition to being responsible for testing the functionality and performance of these components, and planning and monitoring upgrade releases.

•             Design, develop and maintain libraries and components that standardize the use of application entitlements and client data access across different systems. These can be written in Python, C# and/or C++. The candidate will analyze requirements received from the Risk team and assist in defining the best architecture and technical implementation based on the problem at hand. 

•             Partner with the Listed Sales and Trading team (LST) in ESTAR to implement functional enhancements to UI’s and/or Microservices as needed. These are existing components written in either Python, C# and/or C++ that may require updates periodically.

•             Assist in the development and adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices that enhance the monitoring and observability of these components.

Required Skills:

•             Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

•             4+ years of work experience, using either Python, C/C++ and/or C#.

•             Strong Computing fundamentals including a clear understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Software Design and core programming concepts.

•             Experience in application design, and maintenance.

•             Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) core concepts and capabilities.

•             Working knowledge of Linux/Unix.

•             Interest in analyzing and solving problems around application access, and data access. 

•             Ability to work independently, self-driven, with a sense of ownership and pride on delivering quality work.

•             Excellent communication skills, ability to speak to a business and/or technical audience.

Nice to Have:

•             Experience with some cloud deployment and tool chain (Docker, Artifactory, Bazel).

•             Understanding of open-source server platforms (Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, ElasticSearch).

•             Experience in configuration of Open Telemetry stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Loki).

•             Broad understanding of DevOps tools and technologies (Git, Jenkins, Ansible).

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).

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $100,000 and $150,000 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.