Fullstack Team Lead - Vice President - Software Engineering

Morgan Stanley
Full Stack Team Lead - Vice President - Software Engineering

Profile Description
We're seeking someone to join our team asVice President. We are looking for a hands-on software development manager to lead a team of 15-20 engineers focused on building the firm's Operational Mapping Data platform and provide local technical and managerial support to the Business Continuity Management team of 5 engineers.

Prior experience in a risk management or resilience technology organization within a major global financial services firm is desirable but not essential. However, at least 9 years of hands-on software engineering is critical, with at least the last 2 years of those in a management role overseeing a team of at least 10 engineers.

For the right candidate this role will also provide the opportunity to be mentored by a Distinguished Engineer (DE) and make connections with and get involved in some of the firm wide challenges the DEs are tackling such as LLM based code optimization and'architecture-as-code'capabilities.

CDRR_Technology
The Cybersecurity organization's mission is to create an agile, adaptable organization with the skills and expertise needed to defend against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. This will be achieved by maintaining sound capabilities to identify and protect our assets, proactively assessing threats and vulnerabilities and detecting events, ensuring resiliency through our ability to respond to and recover from incidents and building awareness and increase vigilance while continually developing our cyber workforce.

Firm Resilience
Firm Resilience leads and coordinates initiatives to proactively prepare the Firm to be resilient against operational threats as well as identify and manage material operational risk.

Software Engineering
Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

At Morgan Stanley India, we support the Firm's global businesses, with critical presence across Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment management, as well as in the Firm's infrastructure functions of Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Legal and Corporate & Enterprise Services. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in India since 1993, with campuses in both Mumbai and Bengaluru. We empower our multi-faceted and talented teams to advance their careers and make a global impact on the business. For those who show passion and grit in their work, there's ample opportunity to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work.

Interested in joining a team that's eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on…

What you'll do in the role:
Team Leadership & Management
Lead, mentor and support a team of software engineers, fostering a high-performing team environment that encourages innovation and collaboration.

Proactively develop the professional growth of the employees in the team.

Be the in-region day to day point of contact and escalation point for stakeholders, users, support teams, super department colleagues and technology partners.

Technical Leadership
All the following must be delivered in accordance with any applicable firmwide & super department level strategy, frameworks, standards, controls and policies:
Lead on technical and data architecture of the platform to ensure a resilient, scalable and future-proofed ecosystem of applications.

Maintain high quality technical architecture and design documentation (e.g. C4 framework)

Provide hands-on engineering leadership and guidance to the team across the full software development/devops lifecycle.

Passionately follow the latest technology trends and advancements within and outside of Morgan Stanley and ensure best in class technology choices are being made.

Partner closely with the Reliability & Production Engineering (RPE) function to ensure high levels of availability, performance and data quality in the production environment.

Strategic Planning
Work closely with management and business stakeholders to help create, manage and execute a multi-year technology & data roadmap for the Operational Mapping Data platform.

Be comfortable socializing the strategic roadmap with the immediate team, business stakeholders and technology partners.

Translate strategic goals into actionable technical deliverables for the team, ensuring the squads are optimally structured to execute on the strategic goals and remaining nimble to respond to run-the-bank demands such as unplanned regulatory requests, business enhancements and production support.

Continuous Improvement
Foster a culture of continuous improvement in agile, engineering and devops processes.

Assert a relentless focus on creating capacity within the engineering team (e.g. by maximizing leverage of genAI development tools) and in our business stakeholders (e.g. by increasing automated testing coverage) and our users (e.g. by building best in class UX that reduces user burden)

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What you'll bring to the role:
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related field.

Advanced level in web technologies (eg. React, Typescript, node js, css, JavaScript, Bootstrap), Java & Java Microservices and REST API integration.

No lower than intermediate level in Postgres or other RDMS.

Strong application and data architecture skills, ideally using the C4 framework and data driven design techniques.

Experience with MVC / MVVM-style application design and implementation.

Proven ability to design and implement resilient, scalable, future-proofed solutions to business problems.

Very strong communication skills with the ability to interact effectively and confidently with business stakeholders, users and technology partners to senior level.

Proven people management skills within a complex global technology function.

An excellent understanding and hands on experience of Agile/Scrum with a passion for taking the team up the agile maturity curve.

Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to quickly identify the root cause of issues, articulate possible resolutions and lead the team through successful implementation and lessons learnt.

Skills Desired
Python, Talend, Camunda or similar workflow product, semantic architecture and related frameworks such as RDF & OWL, sparql, Shell Scripting, GenAI and LLMs

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.

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.