Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses-and to our own.

E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley is looking for a Systems Engineering Manager to help lead the team of Senior Engineers who are responsible for the Infrastructure Services that power the E*TRADE business lines.

Purpose:

The ideal candidate will be an Engineering leader who thrives on delivering world-class service and has a proven history of managing a highly skilled Engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Set priorities, delegate assignments and manage schedules for multiple parallel business projects, while ensuring a primary focus on customer needs.
• Identify and resolve issues, handle escalation and communicate to Management and stake holders in a timely manner.
• Manage the team by creating an internal environment of teamwork, sharing, and enthusiasm; be a role model, a mentor and a coach.
• Provides a clear vision of goals and expectations for the assigned people in the department and provide them with the tools and training required to meet those expectations.
• Nurture and support a strong Engineering culture: customer focus, technology, high quality implementations, self-motivated innovation and problem-solving.
• Responsible for all elements of supervision including selection, salary planning, training, recognition and performance appraisals.

Qualifications:

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience managing a Technical/Engineering team.
• Expert understanding of what it means to run a large-scale and diverse Infrastructure Services footprint.
• Working knowledge of continuous delivery concepts: continuous integration and deployment.
• Experience in technologies such as Puppet and Git/Subversion.
• Positive, enthusiastic attitude with great teamwork and interpersonal skills, reflecting the ability to interact with cross department groups.
• Ability to work under pressure and solve problems using an analytical approach; decisive, fast moving, quick and constructive resolutions of conflicts.
• Experienced in performing technical planning, system integration, documentation, verification and validation for applications.