Enterprise Architect - Wealth Management Technology

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 in 43 countries. 

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 ethics. 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. 

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Technology (WMT) is responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of the technical solutions behind the products and services used by the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Business. The WMT Architecture team is responsible for leading technology adoption, production stability, code quality and engineering practices for the Wealth management technology platform. The Architecture team works on leading cloud adoption, prototyping innovative solutions, evaluates technology/industry landscape, adopt best practices for the firm, consulting engineering teams on solution architecture, design, performance engineering, security, scalability & disaster recovery. 

Main Responsibilities

• Define, govern & assure compliance of the methods, tools & processes used to develop & operate world-class technological solutions, based on architectural principles. 

• Define & evolve of the longer-term strategic direction of the technology organization 

• Lead and coordinate Enterprise Architecture activities with the business, IT architects/experts, etc. 

• Develop, implement and execute processes for the definition, maintenance and conformance management of Enterprise Architecture. 

• Lead Architecture governance review board, ensuring compliance to industry best practices and firm standards, policies, procedures etc. consolidate governance artefacts and risk reporting to divisional leadership 

• Work with Engineering heads, Development leads, Infrastructure and Product owners in understanding the requirements, evaluating architecture, design consulting, implement solution designs that will scale over time at operational stability, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimization. 

• Lead architecture & design for strategic initiatives, Identify and escalate risks, issues and potential roadblocks in execution plans 

• Build consensus, mediate conflicts, provide advisory services, technical leadership and create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all stakeholders. Provide architectural leadership in the resolution of inter-program and inter-project issues and advice management, business areas on business and information integration strategies. 

• Develop and communicate Architecture Standards, Best practices, Blueprints and provide prescriptive guidance on application and systems design. Create awareness, promote and communicate the Enterprise Architecture within the WM Technology division. 

• Build architecture capability & community within Wealth Management Technology 

• Recruit and manage a small team of highly motivated engineers who can translate the architectural vision to working prototypes, robust frameworks and catalyze engineering squads 

The Lead Enterprise Architect advises senior management on the enterprise architecture strategy and plays a vital role in achieving digital transformation. S/he defines, develops and maintains the enterprise architecture, and maps the enterprise architecture to the core architecture control processes and underlying application, data and infrastructure architectures. This role requires you to provide architecture leadership & subject matter expertise to internal IT teams. You should thrive on diving deep into complex technology environments and express these as industry standard architecture diagrams and well-articulated solution narratives to senior leadership levels. You are expected to stay updated on latest technological trends, spend time understanding the Wealth Management business domain, manage high intensity context switching between competing priorities and demonstrate a sense of urgency to deliver results. 

Required Skills:

• Overall experience is at least 15+ years. Depth of skills should be proportional to experience. 

• Experience with Solution Design & Architecture, Data Architecture, Security Architecture & Cloud, preferably in a financial services industry context. 

• In-depth experience in Architectural Design & Engineering Standards. Knowledge of data, Architecture and Governance frameworks & tools such as TOGAF, ARCHIMATE and C4 

• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle & toolsets and Product Management methodologies. 

• Understands importance of prioritization and focus on high value levers that drive change at scale across engineering organizations 

• Strong people manager, with excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills. Excellent communicator, experienced coaching & mentoring others. 

• Demonstrated experience working at a senior or executive level in a complex organization delivering specialist and authoritative advice to executive leadership. 

• Experience in hiring and building highly performing architecture teams within large and complex organizations 

• A passion for implementing change & keen attention to detail 

Secondary Skills 

• Experience with multi-threading, asynchronous code, garbage collector tuning, memory profiling, and transaction management 

• Database: Relational and NoSQL database design, schema modelling, indexing, performance tuning 

• Messaging: IBM MQ, JMS or Kafka, hands-on experience in at least one messaging technology 

• SOA: Web APIs, REST, gRPC, Build and operate micro-services at scale, efficient distributed caching 

• Cloud: Orchestrate microservices using Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Cloud Native Telemetry using Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry 

• Minimum 10+ years' experience as a Technical/Solution Architect designing distributed applications, fault tolerance and recovery, performance engineering, scaling and low latency application design 

• Minimum 5 years' experience on developing Cloud native containerized apps for Azure or Openshift Kubernetes 

• Minimum 5 years' experience leading architecture governance forums and managing stakeholder conflicts 

• High level understanding of cloud concepts for Identity & Access management, OAuth, Network security, Geo redundancy, Data synchronization, Encryption, Hybrid & Multi-tenant cloud architectures, Service SLA monitoring and Cost optimization 

• Exposure on Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines, Helm Charts, GitOps, Mature DevOps practices like A/B testing, Blue Green/Canary deployments, Trunk based development

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.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $195,000 and $275,000 per year at the commencement of employment.  However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
 

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