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In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Lead Software Engineering position at the Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs. 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. Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on. We are seeking someone to join our Equity Swaps Technology team as a Senior Developer in ESTAR to support the Equity Swaps business. This is a global front-office team that writes the software supporting a leading provider of the Equity Swap product. This role is at the heart of the Equity Swaps system and will involve the core life cycle management system and real time calculation engines which are backed by a very large, sharded, MongoDB cluster. The developer will work within an agile squad developing within a system comprising of numerous Java services that interact via messaging to produce the product outputs in real time. Technologies and techniques such as highly multi-threaded Java, sharded MongoDB and caching are used in the stack to provide the scale and performance that the product requires. A candidate is likely to gain exposure to both new and complex technologies as well as in-depth business knowledge. What you’ll do in the role: Join one of our core development squads to work on business logic changes, general code maintenance, to more complex changes to support the incoming business requests. Write hands-on efficient code with high message volume, large data sets in a complex business product and highly complex concurrent event processing model. Architect, optimize, and tune MongoDB schemas and sharding strategies for high performance, scalability, and maintainability, leveraging tools and features such as the aggregation framework. Work with MongoDB vendor to define, test and implement strategies to improve performance, scale and to enable key product upgrades. Collaborate effectively with developers, DBAs, release management, MongoDB vendor consultants, and senior IT managers while providing technical leadership on best practices. Own and deliver change from idea to production. Involve in the testing and development of unit tests, automated integration tests, runbook development. Help in the comprehensive UAT, full system regression and change rollback tests. Be part in the Level 3 regional production support rotation which is shared between our global developers. Adaptable to work across multiple technologies and disciplines, with a focus on delivering quality solutions for the business in a timely fashion. What you’ll bring to the role: 7+ years of core server-side Java experience with expertise in working in a highly multi-threading environment. In-depth experience building, maintaining, upgrading and optimizing systems utilizing MongoDB (you may even have some DBA experience, although this is a dev role). Demonstrable ability to write quality solutions and to identify / avoid poor solutions and common pitfalls. Experience in software testing methods (ex. JUnit, Cypress) Understanding of Linux and scripting languages. Experience in relational and/or NoSQL database experience. Understanding of message-based architectures (MQ, PubSub, Kafka and/or similar techs). Full software development lifecycle experience in an enterprise setting. An interest to learn the business supported by the applications. Good problem solving and analytical skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. A willingness to be flexible and able to respond to a dynamic business environment. 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. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser. Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $150,000 and $210,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs. Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet). At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values. Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first-class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world. In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society. What We Do