About Morgan Stanley

At Morgan Stanley, we lead with exceptional ideas; we draw on the diverse backgrounds of our people to deliver the best at what we do for the benefit of our clients. We bring capital where it is needed, enabling our client’s ideas and potential.

 

This also applies to Technology, where our mission is to ensure our businesses and our clients are served on a market-leading platform that is efficient, smart, scalable, fast, and flexible. We engineer innovative solutions in a complex and fast evolving world.

 

Our engineers are innovators and problem solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

About Morgan Stanley Japan

Among the first investment banks to establish a branch in Japan, Morgan Stanley opened a representative office in Tokyo in 1970. It is today one of the largest and most active foreign financial firms in the Japanese market and across Asia.

Team Profile

The Secured Financing Technology supports the Client Financing – Rates and Bank Resource Management businesses. They are responsible for funding equity and fixed income assets. You will have a unique opportunity to have a very wide view of a bank’s activities, across the Equity and Fixed Income Divisions, as well as Treasury. You will be interacting with front trading desks, operations, settlement teams across the region and globally.

 

·         We are hiring people who want to work on extremely interesting challenges with a global impact in the financial sector.

Role Profile

·         Daily we are responsible for supporting the secured financing trading and collateral management systems for our Client Financing and Bank Resource Management businesses.

·         Our team is in Tokyo, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Budapest, London, Glasgow, and New York.

·         We manage all incidents across our platforms and take any follow-up actions necessary to ensure system stability. We work closely with traders, operations, and engineers daily.

·         Aside from production monitoring, we develop solutions for business problems in various technologies with support from our global team of experts. We try to maintain 30/70 split between support and project work.

·         You will work with various technologies including Java, Python, Angular, C++, Linux, and SQL.

·         Our people have complete product ownership: requirements, code, test, and deploy. We run a low friction SDLC where you learn from peer code review. You will help us towards our goal of continuous build and automated deployments.

·         We care hugely about our work environment, casual dress code and small teams. We like to run a lean & flat structure where everyone is happy to help.

·         We love to learn and offer a superb training that features free access to Lynda.com, Pluralsight, Safari books, Harvard Business Review. We run internal MOOC (curated learning), soft skills education, mentoring programs, career development programs.

·         We support diversity through programs like Innovation Without Walls, Women In Tech, Tokyo Womens Business Alliance.

·         We give back to our communities. We volunteered 1.67m hours helping communities in 542 cities across the globe. Locally, we support Little Olive Child Foundation, NPO Katariba and our own engineers run CodeClub for Kids.

Required Skills

·         5+ years of hands-on Core Java, Spring development experience working in a distributed environment.

·         Hands-on experience with a RDBMS (Sybase, Oracle…).

·         Strong communication skills – as regular coordination with our global team is essential.

·         Self-motivation to learn about new businesses and ownership of support issues and development projects.

·         Ability to work under pressure, as outages in our businesses are very time sensitive.

Desirable Skills

·         HTML5/Angular development.

·         Financial services experience.

·         Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools like Maven or Gradle.