FID Federal Risk Applications - Development Lead

We're seeking someone to join our Fixed Income Federal Risk Applications team as an Executive Director to lead the Fixed Income Division (FID) Federal Risk Applications department in our New York office.

The Fixed Income Federal Risk Applications department has a strong presence through many major cities throughout the world such as New York, Montreal, London, Budapest, and Hong Kong. Our focus is developing systems serving as a data integration and feeding platform, ensuring that calculation results and other data initiated in our Division reaches our downstream clients and meeting all their requirements. The main challenges in this area are the volume of the data (feeding hundreds of gigabytes daily), interfacing with multiple other systems, being exposed to different financial products to a certain extent and being resilient to errors while keeping our SLA-s. The data we feed is critical in fulfilling the regulatory requirements set by the FED, PRA or BAFIN. Our team is also involved in developing calculations of regulatory scenarios requested by our Market Risk Department. The main technical challenge for this team is computational complexity.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, continuously 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:

• Manage and lead the FID Federal Risk Applications department in New York

• Responsible for bringing in new projects, performing recruitment, building teams and managing talent

• Develop IT systems covering various aspects of the business run by our Fixed Income Division

• Oversee delivery of various f2b projects in IST risk systems to further the consolidation agenda

• Responsible for defining functional capabilities for technical components ensuring they align to established architecture principle and guidelines

• Participate in every stage of the lifecycle of an IT system ranging from gathering the requirement and refining user stories, designing solutions, and writing code to help our support organization to answer the most interesting user questions

• Manage and/or influence prioritization of projects, delivering capabilities supporting the risk infrastructure and data consolidation agenda

What you'll bring to the role: 

• Experience in managing multiple teams across regions while working with multitude of stakeholders

• Finance product knowledge (primarily derivatives) in either equities or fixed income

• A proven track record of delivering projects which span across multiple departments

• 10+ years development experience in a mainstream programming language

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills

• Experience in developing data or computation intensive (e.g. grid based) backend applications

• Willingness to understand and enhance other people's code, being able to work in an environment where developers will oversee and work on wider components also dealing with older legacy code

• Strong Java or Scala skills with the willingness to pick up the other language if not already mastered at a sufficient level

• Good understanding of core computer science concepts and code optimization techniques

• Prior experience in working with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, working with PR-s, using JIRA, following the Scrum Agile methodology is an advantage

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 89 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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