Senior Manager - Java Developer - Technology - Mumbai

Company Profile:

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:

The Non Financial Risk (NFR ) organization provides IT support to the Morgan Stanley Global Financial Crimes, Non Financial Risks and Operational Risk division.

The Financial Crimes Technology (FCT) IT organization among other things is responsible for the support of the Firm's Anti Money Laundering (AML), Enterprise Client Risk Ranking (ECRR), Single Client View (SCV), Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) Sanction Screening programs and Negative News Screening programs.

Enterprise Customer Risk Ranking (“ECRR”) model has been implemented into the Firm’s primary business line onboarding systems to provide a consistent, quantitative approach to assessing a risk ranking to new and existing customers. ECRR considers various inherent risk factors associated with customers, products, services, and geographies. The customer risk rank assigned by ECRR informs both due diligence requirements and frequency of periodic review. The application suites process large volumes of disparate firmwide data into the calculation engine/mathematical model. Additionally, the collected data is used to support Business Intelligence and Analytics Processes.

Responsibilities:

Candidate will be working on existing and new initiatives within the ECRR suite of applications. Initiatives include customizations for evolving business needs as well as architectural and infrastructure improvements. This role will be responsible with activities including design, develop, test, and deploy the code following Agile principles. The candidate is expected to be able to communicate well with global teams, adapt rapidly and learn fast. Sound judgment will be required to understand complex business use cases, design appropriate solutions, develop the underlying implementation and leverage team’s strength for application success. Financial domain knowledge, understanding of AML and Customer Risk ranking quantitative methodologies is an advantage.

Our current technology stack includes Java, Spring Boot, REST, Angular JS, Kafka , MQ and DB2. The team makes extensive use of open source state-of-the-art Java technologies. The team incorporates agile methodologies including Scrum, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in its development processes.

We are looking for a strong hands-on technologist who is passionate about technology, has strong experience developing Java-based systems, is proactive and is an excellent team player.
The work involves handling large volumes (~ 36 millions a day) of Customer and Transactions data into the daily/weekly batch process, multi-processing/multi-threading enhancements to meet daily business SLA timelines, Realtime REST services providing responses in sub-second.

Skills required

·         7+ years of strong hands-on experience working on Core Java, Concurrency and databases using Spring Boot

·         REST Services with JSON, Apache Kafka, IBM MQ , SOAP , XML

·         Strong experience developing distributed n-tier applications with distributed messaging layers, caching mechanisms, data flows

·         Strong Database design skills including SQL, procedures, and query tuning

·         Service Design Concepts, Object Oriented and Functional Development concepts

·         Agile Development Methodologies

·         DevOps tools & methodologies

·         Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach

·         Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to interface with business stakeholders

·         Ability to lead multiple initiatives/projects in parallel with right sense of prioritization

·         Ability to lead & mentor junior team-members

Skills desired

·         Microservices concepts and High-quality software architecture and design methodologies

·         Exposure to Cloud technologies

·         Ability to modernize the ecosystem in iterative approach

·         Create Architecture Design Review documents

·         Linux and Shell Scripts

·         Angular/REACT UI is a plus

 

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.