Vice President - Technical Lead, Document Automation & AI Engineering - Morgan Stanley

We’re seeking someone to join our team as a lead document automation, workflow automation and AI-enabled solutions engineer within Equity Derivatives Technology, as part of a globally distributed team. Combines strong engineering fundamentals, distributed systems experience and practical generative AI to deliver business value through iterative development.

Morgan Stanleys market leading institutional equity derivatives business is powered by a world class technology platform from front to back. Our platform manages the processing of Structured Products and OTC's for the exotic derivatives business. This is a complex business area requiring smart, innovative, and self-sufficient developers to work closely with sales, trading and quants. As the business continues to grow, we are undertaking a programme of change to increase our external connectivity via REST and FIX; as well as a strong focus on improving our pricing tools. We are looking to build out a cloud ready, horizontally scalable pricing system with zero downtime and single click deployment capability. This is an opportunity to get involved in shaping the pricing and workflow strategy and tooling. Reflecting the global nature of our business and systems, the team is distributed between London, New York, Montreal, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Our strongest location in terms of numbers is London, the ideal time zone for running a global team and where many of our business sponsors are also located. We are active in many out of work activities both socially and volunteering our time through various firm sponsored initiatives.

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 Principal Software Engineering] position at VP level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, continuously evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world. What will you be doing:

Lead document/workflow automation and platform modernisation; define scalable architecture for distributed, business-critical systems.

Drive engineering excellence, quality and operational resilience; mentor engineers throughdesign reviews and hands-on coaching.

Own end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives, partnering with business stakeholders totranslate requirements into solutions and deliver value via rapid iteration.

Participate actively in agile ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, showcases)alongside business owners and other agile teams across the global fleet.

Champion AI-assisted and agentic development, applying generative AI to accelerate deliveryand productivity.