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NTS Product Owner, VP
Morgan StanleyUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Jul 2025
💰 $165,000/yr($95,000/yr – $165,000/yr)
About the role
Firm
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from offices in 42 countries.
As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley provides a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.
Position Description
Technology forms the bedrock of the Market Abuse Trade Surveillance program, and this role serves as a critical juncture between the surveillance analyst users of the technology, and the technology teams that deliver and maintain the technology assets. This role sits within the Institutional Securities Compliance Trade Surveillance team, in the 2nd Line of Defense; this role's success will be inextricably tied to the candidate's ability to communicate effectively and build strong working relationships with technology teams.
As Product Owner, the candidate will be responsible for working closely with Agile technology squads to provide project prioritization, explain user requirements, maintain relationships with NASDAQ as a supplier of the NTS surveillance tool, monitor and progress technology requirements with other internal teams, prepare management reporting and communicate back to compliance stakeholders (including senior management) on project progress across a wide range of subjects, improvements and new implementation projects. While the role does not encompass direct line management responsibilities, the successful candidate will achieve their objectives by working in close partnership and delivering through others, building strong relationships based on respect and mutual engagement across technology and compliance teams.
The candidate will also be responsible for supporting the Surveillance Technology Fleet Lead with management reporting and oversight across the wider Institutional Securities Trade Surveillance technology fleet. The candidate will need to maintain an understanding of the overall fleet activities as they will be called on to serve as the Fleet Lead's delegate at internal and external meetings.
Primary Responsibilities
> Prioritize NTS squad JIRA tickets in line with the strategic and risk requirements of surveillance users and organizational objectives
> Participate in all NTS squad meetings as appropriate, including grooming, retrospective, stand-up and prioritization meetings
> Maintain issue tracker logs, track communications with NASDAQ, lead meetings, produce minutes and track action items
> Build strong direct working relationships with the relevant global surveillance leads
> Fully embed with relevant technology squads and develop a deep understanding of all live tasks to communicate status and challenges to the compliance users
> Deliver effective communication on technical matters to compliance users
> Support the development of complete user requirements from surveillance users to the technology squads - serving as a translator between teams
> Identify and escalate challenges and risks in a timely manner to the Fleet Lead
> Prepare materials for regular internal meetings, including quarterly progress reports and lead Essential Experience
> Deep experience with the technical elements of implementation of market abuse trade surveillance systems (e.g., NTS, TradingHub, NICE Actimize, Scila or similar) either as a developer, business analyst or product owner
> Vendor relationship management and issues tracking, or formal issues management/relationship management with an internal service provider
> Leadership either through direct line management or delivering through others, where the candidate has been responsible for managing projects, cross-functional teams or other groups of high-performing professionals
> Applied data quality controls experience, either through design, execution, or resolution of data quality monitoring
> Working knowledge of financial products, venue market structure and exchange-traded products
> Practical understanding of market abuse behaviors, risks and manifestations
Desirable Experience
> Specific experience with NTS (Nasdaq SMARTS), including new market integration, alert threshold calibration, and data quality management
> Established track record as a surveillance analyst user of market abuse surveillance tools
> Experience with incident management, either in operational risk or technology fai
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from offices in 42 countries.
As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley provides a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.
Position Description
Technology forms the bedrock of the Market Abuse Trade Surveillance program, and this role serves as a critical juncture between the surveillance analyst users of the technology, and the technology teams that deliver and maintain the technology assets. This role sits within the Institutional Securities Compliance Trade Surveillance team, in the 2nd Line of Defense; this role's success will be inextricably tied to the candidate's ability to communicate effectively and build strong working relationships with technology teams.
As Product Owner, the candidate will be responsible for working closely with Agile technology squads to provide project prioritization, explain user requirements, maintain relationships with NASDAQ as a supplier of the NTS surveillance tool, monitor and progress technology requirements with other internal teams, prepare management reporting and communicate back to compliance stakeholders (including senior management) on project progress across a wide range of subjects, improvements and new implementation projects. While the role does not encompass direct line management responsibilities, the successful candidate will achieve their objectives by working in close partnership and delivering through others, building strong relationships based on respect and mutual engagement across technology and compliance teams.
The candidate will also be responsible for supporting the Surveillance Technology Fleet Lead with management reporting and oversight across the wider Institutional Securities Trade Surveillance technology fleet. The candidate will need to maintain an understanding of the overall fleet activities as they will be called on to serve as the Fleet Lead's delegate at internal and external meetings.
Primary Responsibilities
> Prioritize NTS squad JIRA tickets in line with the strategic and risk requirements of surveillance users and organizational objectives
> Participate in all NTS squad meetings as appropriate, including grooming, retrospective, stand-up and prioritization meetings
> Maintain issue tracker logs, track communications with NASDAQ, lead meetings, produce minutes and track action items
> Build strong direct working relationships with the relevant global surveillance leads
> Fully embed with relevant technology squads and develop a deep understanding of all live tasks to communicate status and challenges to the compliance users
> Deliver effective communication on technical matters to compliance users
> Support the development of complete user requirements from surveillance users to the technology squads - serving as a translator between teams
> Identify and escalate challenges and risks in a timely manner to the Fleet Lead
> Prepare materials for regular internal meetings, including quarterly progress reports and lead Essential Experience
> Deep experience with the technical elements of implementation of market abuse trade surveillance systems (e.g., NTS, TradingHub, NICE Actimize, Scila or similar) either as a developer, business analyst or product owner
> Vendor relationship management and issues tracking, or formal issues management/relationship management with an internal service provider
> Leadership either through direct line management or delivering through others, where the candidate has been responsible for managing projects, cross-functional teams or other groups of high-performing professionals
> Applied data quality controls experience, either through design, execution, or resolution of data quality monitoring
> Working knowledge of financial products, venue market structure and exchange-traded products
> Practical understanding of market abuse behaviors, risks and manifestations
Desirable Experience
> Specific experience with NTS (Nasdaq SMARTS), including new market integration, alert threshold calibration, and data quality management
> Established track record as a surveillance analyst user of market abuse surveillance tools
> Experience with incident management, either in operational risk or technology fai
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