Senior Platform Engineering Leader

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineering Leader to help shape and scale the developer tooling ecosystem used across a global organization.
This role suits someone with strong technical judgment, a passion for developer experience, and the drive to modernize CI/CD and development platforms across self-hosted and SaaS environments.
You will lead work across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and related SDLC platforms, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, secure, and effective for engineers at enterprise scale. You'll partner with infrastructure, security, and application development teams to reduce complexity, improve platforms, and help developers get more from their tools.
We're especially interested in someone enthusiastic about AI use cases across the SDLC, including engineering productivity, automation, and infrastructure management, with the ability to understand developer pain points and turn ambiguous or fast-changing situations into practical progress.
 

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 Lead Software Engineering position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:

• Lead the strategy, design, and evolution of enterprise developer tooling and CI/CD platforms across a global environment

• Improve the reliability, scale, usability, and operational maturity of systems spanning self-hosted and SaaS tooling

• Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to identify friction, set direction, and deliver platform improvements that matter

• Drive adoption of modern automation and AI-enabled workflows across software delivery and platform operations

• Bring clarity and momentum in ambiguous environments where priorities, requirements, and technologies continue to evolve

• Influence standards, patterns, and engineering practices that improve developer productivity at scale

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Significant experience building, operating, or evolving large-scale developer platforms, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure services

• Hands-on Java experience, particularly in the context of Jenkins plugin development or extending CI/CD tooling

• Strong Python experience for infrastructure management, automation, or orchestration in complex engineering environments

• Strong technical depth paired with sound judgment and a practical, delivery-oriented mindset

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical audiences

• Genuine enthusiasm for AI-assisted software delivery and the future of tooling across the SDLC

• A natural inclination to lead, simplify, and move initiatives forward even when the path is not fully defined

• A strong sense of ownership and a clear focus on helping developers succeed

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.

Certified Persons Regulatory Requirements:
If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.
Flexible work statement
Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more.
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.