VP - Lead Software Engineer, Fixed Income - Parametric

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

ABOUT PARAMETRIC
Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT THE TEAM
The Investment Systems and Client Activities team at Parametric:

• We are responsible for the development of Parametric's proprietary investment systems technologies, including our Portfolio construction, trading and compliance for fixed income and derivatives portfolio management systems.
• We are building financial software to realize complex opportunities using advanced quantitative strategies, enabling clients to optimize portfolios for their investment objectives.
• We are technology-driven and building for scale and resilience, enabling our business to support clients with improved efficiency and reduced operational risk and staging its solutions for rapid market share growth

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Lead Software Engineer on the Fixed Income Investments Systems team is responsible for providing technical leadership for a set of applications across the technology platform. Foremost, the role will be responsible for architecting and delivering a highly scalable and resilient set of central services that will advance the integration and scalability of the broader proprietary technology platform.
The role will report into the Director, Fixed Income Investment Systems, and work closely with technical leads and managers across Parametric's technology team. The person in this role will lead a team of few engineers as they design, build, and support the next generation of services that support all aspects of the platform, with a focus on corporate bonds investment strategies. The role is also responsible for identifying priorities, managing deliveries with stakeholders across the technology team.
A critical objective for Lead Software Engineer, Investment Operations is to architect and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, leveraging cloud native technologies, designing and implementing micro-services and a relentless focus on performance and resilience.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Utilize programming and quantitative skills to create efficiencies for portfolio managers, analysts and traders with the primary goal of improving systems.

- Work closely with investment professionals and other team members to understand and document requirements in order to provide solutions to complex business problems.

- Work towards a long-term goal of specializing in development areas, including but not limited to: front-end interfaces, data analytics, back-end design, and data architecture.

- Work towards building the strategic Fixed Income portfolio management platform and unifying the workflows/services for different Fixed income subgroups

- Lead team of developers, manages their plan and performance

JOB REQUIREMENTS

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science strongly preferred

- 8+ years of software development experience programming with Java

- 6+ years of Financial services working experience and familiarity with fixed income is preferred

- A minimum of one or more of the following skills required:

• 5+ years of experience with Databases (SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience with cloud native development, preferably on AWS.
• Exposure to web-based UI development, e.g., Angular, React, or similar

- Excellent communication and ability to collaborate well with both technical and non-technical users

- Experience with Python is preferred.

- Strong math orientation and numerical aptitude

- Interest in combining technical skills with Finance and business level understanding

- A creative, self-confident self-motivator with a can do spirit.

- Ability to collaborate and partner across a diverse teams effectively.

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