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 Vice President, Lead Tech Program Mgmt in New York, New York to support Wealth Advisory technology initiatives, focusing on Unified Managed Accounts (UMA), Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) strategic business initiatives, modernization and resiliency, and legacy system integration. Manage program initiatives for financial advisor-based trading applications, including Portfolio Management, UMA, and SMA. Support migration of legacy mainframe technology to modern private cloud architecture and implemented strategic enhancements. Facilitate cross-functional relationships to identify risks, manage dependencies, and optimize resources across multiple programs. Support and execute Advisory large-scale initiatives, ensuring visibility and accountability. Lead road-mapping processes including gathering requirements and feature requests from diverse stakeholders. Drive technical strategy within the team, coordinating and contributing to engineering deliverables including architectural reviews, specifications, launch criteria, and test plans. Implement Agile methodologies to enhance project deliverability. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.
What you’ll bring to the role:
-Requires a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
-Requires five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Technology Program Manager, Technology Engineer, or a closely related occupation.
-Requires five (5) years of experience with the following skills:
- Program planning, execution, and end-to-end delivery across initiatives;
- Roadmap development using Agile and Waterfall methodologies;
- Risk, dependency, and stakeholder management;
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC);
- Data-driven reporting and operational tracking;
- Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, and SharePoint;
- Collaboration tools including Microsoft Teams and Zoom;
- Negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration;
- Business acumen in product strategy, customer focus, and vendor management;
- Go-to-market coordination and program governance;
- Data interpretation, dashboarding, forecasting, and root cause analysis; and
Reporting automation and operational excellence.
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 $202,000 and $215,000 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, Information Technology, or a related field
- Five years of experience in the position offered, as a Technology Program Manager, Technology Engineer, or in a closely related occupation
- Five years of experience with program planning, execution, and end-to-end delivery across initiatives
- Five years of experience developing roadmaps using Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Five years of experience with risk, dependency, and stakeholder management
- Five years of experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Five years of experience with data-driven reporting and operational tracking
- Five years of experience using Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, and SharePoint
- Five years of experience using Microsoft Teams and Zoom
- Five years of experience with negotiation and cross-functional collaboration
- Five years of experience with product strategy, customer focus, and vendor management
- Five years of experience with go-to-market coordination and program governance
- Five years of experience with data interpretation, dashboarding, forecasting, and root cause analysis
- Five years of experience with reporting automation and operational excellence
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.
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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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