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 Vice President, Lead Software Engineer in New York, New York to design, code, test, debug, document, and support software applications in accordance with established specifications and business requirements. Develop business solutions by creating new software applications and modifying existing ones. Utilize innovative approaches to address complex technical challenges, applying advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts to product development. Manage multiple concurrent software development projects. Apply Object-Oriented Analysis and Object-Oriented Design (OOAD) principles throughout the development process. Integrate solutions with dependent modules, document solutions, write code, perform unit and integration testing, participate in load testing and deployment, and troubleshoot production issues. Telecommuting permitted up to two (2) days per week.
What you’ll bring to the role:
-Requires a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
-Requires five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Technology Portfolio Manager, Senior Manager, Senior Consultant or a related role.
-Requires five (5) years of experience with the following skills:
- Applying end-to-end software development life cycle (SDLC) within Agile/DevOps environments;
- Utilizing core Java, J2EE, and Spring technologies;
- Developing REST/SOAP web services;
- Working with relational databases including Sybase;
- Conducting test automation, writing unit and integration tests;
- Implementing JIRA and CI/CD pipelines;
- Applying Git, Bitbucket, and SVN, and utilizing an understanding of branching models, workflows, merge and conflict resolution;
- Performing client-side debugging tools to troubleshoot issues across multiple browsers including Chrome and Edge;
- Working in Unix/Linux environments, including shell scripting;
- Developing batch jobs;
- Utilizing understanding of application and system architecture.
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.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $200,000 and $210,000 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.
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 Technology Portfolio Manager, Senior Manager, Senior Consultant, or related role
- Five years of experience applying end-to-end SDLC within Agile/DevOps environments
- Five years of experience with core Java, J2EE, and Spring technologies
- Five years of experience developing REST/SOAP web services
- Five years of experience working with relational databases, including Sybase
- Five years of experience conducting test automation and writing unit and integration tests
- Five years of experience implementing JIRA and CI/CD pipelines
- Five years of experience using Git, Bitbucket, and SVN, including branching models, workflows, merging, and conflict resolution
- Five years of experience using client-side debugging tools across browsers including Chrome and Edge
- Five years of experience working in Unix/Linux environments, including shell scripting
- Five years of experience developing batch jobs
- Five years of experience understanding application and system architecture
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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Parental & Family Support — Family support is extensive, with paid parental leave for all parents, adoption and fertility assistance, backup childcare, and eldercare resources. Feedback suggests these programs meaningfully enhance the overall package and help with retention.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, mental‑health access, care navigation, and expert second opinions. Convenient primary care access and condition‑specific support reinforce the depth of healthcare coverage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity compensation and stock ownership are positioned as core motivators that encourage commitment and retention. Feedback suggests education and support are provided to help participants manage equity and related financial benefits.
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.
