Principal Software Engineer - Parametric

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 2-3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT TEAM
The Core Services team at Parametric:

- Primarily focuses on developing highly resilient and scalable core data services on AWS cloud providing unified API interface across business domains.
- Team focus is covering all asset classes across Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives for downstream portfolio management and operations verticals.
- Leverage NoSql database, Spring Boot, Java, Python, React and AWS native applications such as S3, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS/EKS for Docker container orchestration, Redis (ElastiCache), DynamoDB, RDS etc.
- Additional area of focus is to build and manage platform event message hub on Confluent Kafka Cloud.


ABOUT THE ROLE
The Principal Software Engineer will be primarily responsible for extending and building the core multi-asset Securities and Pricing services that will be source of truth across Parametric. The engineer/team lead will be responsible for design, development, and integration of various new and existing technology solutions that supports various aspects of our investment management processes and work with business and technology stake holders across domains. The set of services will maintain persistent database on the cloud and require sourcing data from wide variety of data sources such as Bloomberg and drive unification of data sources and build API's that would be scalable, resilient, highly available on the cloud expected to provide low latency and high throughput for client applications.

 
This role will require extensive interaction and communication, requirements gathering across various other teams in the organization and implementation leveraging best in class technologies. The candidate will be well versed in at least 1 high level object orient programming languages, multiyear cloud experience preferably in AWS and 10+ years of work experience in software engineering space and 3+ years of work experience leading a small team. Financial services experience especially in asset management or trading is desired.

Primary Responsibilities

–      Provide flexible solutions to complex business problems using our technology best practices

–      Design and develop cloud native (AWS) micro-services with primary focus on correctness and performance

–      Provide technical leadership directing 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.

–      Integrate with other services in the ecosystem or public API’s and databases

–      Apply best in class engineering principles, optimized algorithms, and data structure techniques

–      Create unit/integration/functional tests

–      Conduct code reviews of other developers and participate in git merge reviews

–      Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate

–      Research new cloud apps/open-source technologies and incorporate in existing services/API’s

–      Mentor and manage other developers

–      Strong leadership skills including:

o    Vision and strategy

o    Influencing and consensus building

o    Communication

o    Total quality commitment

o    Ownership and accountability

o    Project management

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Job QUALIFICATIONS

–      Master’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineer is preferred

–      10+ years of hands-on Java/OOP development experience with primary focus on backend systems

–      3+ years of experience managing a small team providing direct guidance and project leadership as well as mentorship

–      Knowledge of cloud services like AWS/Azure

–      Knowledge about orchestration services, Docker and Kubernetes desired

–      Experience developing REST/Graphql API horizontally scalable services

–      Experience in event-based architectures and messaging platforms like Kafka is desired

–      Experience architecting projects integrating across systems

–      Understanding of micro-services architecture/containerization

–      Proven experience with test driven development

–      Familiarity with GIT version control system

–      Working experience with agile development

–      Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools like Maven or Gradle

–      Hands-on experience with RDBMS and/or NoSql databases like DynamoDB/Redis

–      Effective communication skills with business users and other developers

–      Experience with JavaScript/React development

–      Multi-threading programming

–      Python and/or C# object oriented development

–      Knowledge of distributed systems like Apache Cassandra

–      Financial services, especially asset management industry experience is a plus

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.

Salary range for the position:  $110,000 - $225,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20  Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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).

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