In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Software Engineering III position at the Director level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.
 

Role description:
We are looking for a strong technologist and a doer who is willing to lead by example by being hands on every day. This role will be supporting Institutional Securities and Wealth Management brokerage Operations platforms which include diverse technologies hosted by on premises and cloud platforms. The role is expected to perform day to day support for the business alongside reliability engineering tasks. The role has an emphasis on improving the reliability of our systems by working with the Software developers and Infrastructure engineering teams to develop automated reliability solutions. Using automation will help evolve our systems that will increase our velocity in managing uptime and mitigate risk. We are looking for the ideal candidate to improve our codebase in a growing area of the Firm that provides significant potential for career growth for the right candidate.

What you'll do in the role:

• Day to day support of systems and end users in the Operations department of Morgan Stanley.

• Troubleshooting technical problems across a distributed Unix environment, Natural and Cobol Mainframes or in databases.

• Managing critical incidents and ensuring all key management and business stakeholders are kept up to date.

• Implementing a program of work to establish the SRE practice into the Operations Production Management department

• Developing code and automation frameworks that enhances our monitoring and measurement capability and eliminates support toil

What you'll bring to the role:

• Bachelor Degree with Computer Science or related field

• At least 2 years experience debugging issues across a full technology stack, including queueing, databases, services, load-balancing, and distributed systems failure generally. Demonstrated debugging skill across hardware, software and the network, and to be able to do so under time pressure

• Experience in Java/JMS/JDBC and at least one scripting language, such as Python or Linux shell

• Experience writing SQL and stored procedures for a relational database a must with DB2 preferred.

• Experience working with a web stack built on a Tomcat/Apache webserver.

• Excellent communication skills with both technical and business users. Comfort doing this on a globally dispersed team

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.

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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).