Lead Software Engineer - Vice President - Morgan Stanley

Profile Description

We’re seeking someone to join our FORT team as a Lead Software Engineer position at Vice President Level . Candidate with strong experience in building scalable, data‑intensive systems and working with cybersecurity datasets. The ideal candidate brings expertise across backend engineering, modern UI frameworks, cloud platforms, and data processing technologies. This role requires strong ownership, problem‑solving skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment.

About Super Department:

FINANCE Technology (FINTECH) provides innovative solutions for regulatory and financial reporting, general ledger, profit & loss calculations, securities bookkeeping, budgeting & forecasting, and tax filing. The group leverages a state-of-the-art multi-terabyte financial data warehouse as one of its main assets to service the Firm’s Finance division.

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 Engineer position at Vice President Level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintains software solutions that support business needs.

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

We are looking for highly motivated individual with hands-on Java development experience, to support building the new Model management platform.

Technology stack includes a wide range of proprietary and open-source technologies including REST API, Workflow and Rule Engine technologies, scalable big-data platforms, No-Sql databases, UI – ReactJS/Redux and reporting tools.

The candidate needs to be able to understand distributed systems architecture, be a team player with effective communication skills and passionate about programming in a distributed, event-driven pub/sub environment using Core Java, and Python.

The candidate should enjoy working in a highly collaborative environment that values teamwork.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Very strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

8 years of experience in Java backend development

Good exposure to Agentic AI

Very strong knowledge of software design principles: MVC, data structures, graph data, algorithms, design patterns, multithreading, caching, recursion

Strong knowledge of core Java: class loading, garbage collection, Java collections API, Reflections API, Java Streams and Functional Programming

Strong knowledge of common Java frameworks (Spring, JSR-303, Logback, Junit, Apache Commons)

Strong Knowledge of Relational Databases and SQL (DB2)

Good Knowledge of No-SQL Databases (Mongo DB)