The Cybersecurity organization's mission is to create an agile, adaptable organization with the skills and expertise needed to defend against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. This will be achieved by maintaining sound capabilities to identify and protect our assets, proactively assessing threats and vulnerabilities and detecting events, ensuring resiliency through our ability to respond to and recover from incidents and building awareness and increase vigilance while continually developing our cyber workforce.

Non-Financial Risk Technology

Non-Financial Risk Technology provides operational controls, support for sustainable investing, business continuity planning, and surveillance capabilities to enhance the firm's resilience to threats and fraudulent behavior.

Technical
Specialist

This is a Vice President position within our Technical Specialist function which comes with responsibilities for guiding a team of developers in Mumbai, in addition to hands-on development in an OO language like Python or Java, and a hands-on approach to working with data across all phases of the software development lifecycle, partnering closely with the Product Owner and squad in product delivery.

We are looking for someone who will provide technical leadership, primarily of our ESG data workstream, but with local oversight of other areas being worked on by our existing team in Mumbai, including geospatial and climate scenario analysis initiatives.

The ideal candidate should have the skills listed below, but in addition, should be a self-driven, dedicated individual who can inspire others to deliver, innovate and lead as well as working well in a team and thinking and acting strategically, being able to leverage the skills and expertise of those around them.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

At Morgan Stanley India, we support the Firm's global businesses, with critical presence across Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment management, as well as in the Firm's infrastructure functions of Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Legal and Corporate & Enterprise Services. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in India since 1993, with campuses in both Mumbai and Bengaluru. We empower our multi-faceted and talented teams to advance their careers and make a global impact on the business. For those who show passion and grit in their work, there's ample opportunity to move across the businesses

Interested in joining a team that's eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on...

What you'll do in the role:
• Responsible for the development, maintenance and support of multiple applications or frameworks
• Communicate regularly with product leads across the technology organization and discuss opportunities for improvement to existing and future technology solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and vision for software development projects.
• Define technical architecture and roadmap for large-scale, mission-critical systems.
• Manage a team of software engineers, providing technical direction and assign tasks in accordance with agreed priorities.
• Drive the adoption of agile methodologies and best practices across the team.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Act as a subject matter expert in specific technology domains or platforms.
• Continuously assess and improve team performance and efficiency.
• Estimation & end to end execution of required changes, coordination with stakeholders, as required
• Test software designs and solutions (including unit testing and integrated testing)
• Build and maintain automated test suites

What you'll bring to the role:
• At least 10+ years of hands-on application development utilizing Python, Java or another popular OO development language
• Experience in developing web services using standard Python (preferably) or Java based frameworks/toolkits (REST, SOAP, JSON, and XML)
• Experience in the development of service-oriented architecture application, good understanding of Object-Oriented Design and Design Patterns and Git version control
• Solid understanding of DB concepts and working with relational databases (Postgres preferred)
• Experience with MVC patterned applications using JavaScript frameworks and working with front end development teams, preferably in Angular
• Experience with data analytics and visualization tools like Tableau
• Strong analytical and design skills, including the ability to understand business requirements and translate them into efficient and effective technical designs that work well within large-scale, well-structured enterprise environments
• Proficient in DevOps tooling and practices
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience leading development teams.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple functions or guide junior staff and initiatives.
• A very strong communicator with the ability to interface directly with clients, vendors and analysts to ensure technical requirements and delivery align with expectations
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to quickly identify and document the root cause of issues, and effectively communicate possible resolutions
• Mentorship of senior and junior engineers.
• Solid understanding of the financial services industry, with any exposure to ESG within the industry being a benefit
• Ability to influence technical direction and drive innovation.
• Experience with project planning and execution.

What you can expect from Morgan Stanley

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 85 years. At our 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 our more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll find trusted colleagues, committed mentors and a culture that values diverse perspectives, individual intellect and cross-collaboration. Our Firm is differentiated by the caliber of our diverse team, while our company culture and commitment to inclusion define our legacy and shape our future, helping to strengthen our business and bring value to clients around the world. Learn more about how we put this commitment to action: morganstanley.com/diversity. 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.