Company Profile:
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.
In Technology, 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.
What you’ll do in the role:
Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. is seeking a Director, Lead Software Engineer in Jersey City, New Jersey to design, develop and deploy technical solutions and new features for E*Trade/Morgan Stanley self-directed trading platform. Upgrade, maintain and modernize the existing applications in terms of technical stacks, migration of old libraries and system enhancements. Review functional requirements and prepare documents, technical programs, subsystem and system designs and solutions, and their associated projects task descriptions and effort estimates. Utilize both the industry-standards and company’s existing software system architecture to design techniques and development standards and review new work with others to ensure if it complies with industry and company standards. Document technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, projects task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.
What you’ll bring to the role:
-Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
-Requires five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Software Engineer, Consultant, Programmer Analyst, or a related occupation.
-Requires five (5) years of experience with the following skills:
- C++;
- C;
- Multithreading;
- MSMQ;
- Oracle;
- Sybase;
- SQL Server;
- UNIX/Linux/Windows;
- XML;
- JAVA/J2EE;
- VC++ (ATL COM);
- ASP;
- JavaScript;
- XML;
- XSL; and
- Visual Basic.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 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.
To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.
Salary range for the position: $194,000 - $194,000 /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 is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Five years of experience in the position offered or as a Software Engineer, Consultant, Programmer Analyst, or related occupation
- Five years of experience with C++
- Five years of experience with C
- Five years of experience with multithreading
- Five years of experience with MSMQ
- Five years of experience with Oracle
- Five years of experience with Sybase
- Five years of experience with SQL Server
- Five years of experience with UNIX, Linux, or Windows
- Five years of experience with XML
- Five years of experience with Java and J2EE
- Five years of experience with VC++ and ATL COM
- Five years of experience with ASP
- Five years of experience with JavaScript
- Five years of experience with XSL
- Five years of experience with Visual Basic
Morgan Stanley Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Morgan Stanley and has not been reviewed or approved by Morgan Stanley.
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Healthcare Strength — Health offerings appear broad, including medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, free One Medical membership, care advocates, second opinions, and substantial mental-health support with multiple no-cost sessions. Additional resources such as Headspace, virtual physical therapy, and fitness subsidies enhance overall wellbeing coverage.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, additional pregnancy-related medical leave, and four weeks of paid leave to care for a seriously ill family member. A lifetime family-building benefit of up to $75,000 for adoption, surrogacy, and fertility expenses adds meaningful value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and financial programs feature a 401(k) with a competitive match alongside employee stock-purchase opportunities and 529 plan matching. Additional resources include financial-wellness tools, student-loan refinancing, and various insurance options.
Morgan Stanley Insights
What We Do
Morgan Stanley mobilizes capital to help governments, corporations, institutions and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. For over 85 years, the firm’s reputation for using innovative thinking to solve complex problems has been well earned and rarely matched. A consistent industry leader throughout decades of dramatic change in modern finance, Morgan Stanley will continue to break new ground in advising, serving and providing new opportunities for its clients. Morgan Stanley is committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have always defined the firm. At its foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide its more than 60,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 41 countries.
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