Lead Developer - VP

Morgan Stanley are looking for a Senior, Lead developer with experience in Java and working with big data for a Tier 1 investment bank supporting the Equity Swap business. This is a global front-office technology team that builds and supports the platform enabling this market leading business.

This role will involve hands-on development as well as leading initiatives, making good design choices, and engaging with senior stakeholders. Data is at the heart of the system, so the ability to understand data and relationships, as well as organise and produce appropriate data models, is key to success.

The initiative is to build a real-time platform to process business events and build a data platform to renovate and modernise dependent downstream systems. The challenge is to manage high data volumes with low latency requirements and provide access in a controlled but scalable way.

Core skills required include:

• Working in a real-time Linux-based environment with multi-threaded Java
• Using technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ, Snowflake, and other leading high-performance data and caching technologies
• Experience in API technologies such as REST/GraphQL
• Python/Perl scripting

The candidate should have excellent communication skills, strong analytical skills, strong software engineering skills, a logical approach to problem solving, and be able to liaise with stakeholders to understand complex requirements. We look for strong positivity and enthusiasm with an open mind to think about and offer potential solutions for architectural considerations with a can-do attitude.

Familiarity with working within an Agile lifecycle model is expected. You will work with a fully automated release cycle, from testing at Unit and Integration level to continuous deployment. We encourage good DevOps practices and look for the team to enhance our automated processes and provide good documentation.

Skills Required:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Java Server Side Concurrent Programming with Spring Boot (Core Spring)
• Understanding of message-based architectures (MQ/Kafka)
• Competent with database technologies, with proficiency in writing complex queries
• Unix/Linux scripting (Shell/Python)
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills
• Full software development lifecycle understanding
• Good software development practices
• An interest and aptitude to learn the business supported by the applications

Skills Desired:

• Knowledge of the Equity Derivative business
• API Experience
• Experience with cloud offerings (Azure/AWS)

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 - guide the decisions we make every day.

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.

Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements.

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