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ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 2-3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT THE TEAM The Investment Systems team at Parametric:

– We are responsible for the development of Parametric’s proprietary investment systems technologies, including our trading, compliance, and fixed income portfolio management systems.

– We are building financial software to realize complex opportunities using advanced theory-driven strategies, enabling clients to optimize portfolios for their investment objectives.

– We are technology-driven and building for scale and resilience, enabling our business to support clients with improved efficiency and reduced operational risk.

ABOUT THE ROLE The Investment Systems: Fixed Income Investment Platform team is responsible for developing core components and architectural patterns used by Parametric's proprietary systems and shared across all Investment Systems teams. The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for leading the design, development, and integration of various technology solutions for these systems. This will involve becoming a subject matter expert in multiple areas of the investment management industry, along with the research, design, and implementation of new technologies and solutions to solve key challenges for the organization.

Projects completed by this team are highly technical, are used by many other teams, and have an impact across the organization. We are seeking professionals who excel when working collaboratively with other talented individuals. Custom software solutions are a key element of our success, and, as such, we consider software engineering a tier-one competency.

This position will report directly into the Fixed Income Investment Platform team and work closely with team leads across technology teams, business analysts, and business partners. This is a management role, and the Lead Software Engineer will lead projects, hands-on development and manage and mentor developers on their team.

A critical objective for this role is to support the architecture and delivery of scalable enterprise solutions by leveraging AWS cloud-native technologies, designing, and implementing microservices, and evolving existing services following industry best practices with a relentless focus on performance and resilience.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES - Manage and mentor a team of developers, fostering growth and driving culture and objectives. - Lead development projects, including all components of the development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment, bug fixes, and enhancements. - Design and develop high-quality and flexible technical solutions across all layers of application development, including APIs, application logic, performance, reliability, persistence, tests, CI/CD, and IaC. - Design and integrate shareable solutions within the development organization, such as code libraries, build automation, test automation, API conventions, and cloud architecture patterns. - Design and develop processes to enhance architecture across new and existing applications, such as across or within persistence engines, cloud platforms, and code frameworks. - Utilize programming and quantitative skills to create efficiencies for traders, analysts, and portfolio managers with the primary goal of improving systems. - Work closely with investment professionals and other team members to understand and document requirements in order to provide solutions to complex business problems. - Work towards a long-term goal of specializing in development areas, including but not limited to front-end interfaces, data analytics, back-end design, and data architecture.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS SKILL SET Required Experience: 10 years Skill set: Software Design / Java / J2EE / SQL / Cloud Development ( AWS Preferred)

PRIMARY SKILLS - 5 years of recent hands-on Java or Kotlin and J2EE development experience. - Bachelor's degree in computer science or related area of study - 5 years of recent hands-on experience on designing and developing services using Spring Boot. - 5 years of experience with web-based UI development, e.g., Angular, React, or similar. - 10 years of overall hands-on OOP design and development experience. - Experience supervising software development teams and fostering an engaging and collaborative environment, including building, and maintaining cross-team networks. - Proven experience working with cloud technologies (AWS strongly preferred). - Strong math orientation and numerical aptitude - Interest in combining technical skills with Finance and business level understanding. - Proven experience managing all aspects of team-delivered technical projects, with a proven track record of delivering well-architected and well-written software solutions. - Strong understanding of features and best practices across various programming languages. - Strong passion for developing a deep understanding of new technologies or solutions. - Experience working with various persistence technologies, such as RDBMS or NoSQL. - Experience developing resources using IaC technologies such as Terraform. - Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab or GitHub. - Experience adhering to and enforcing high-quality code quality standards. - Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to assignments, such as in-depth expertise on business concepts or open-source project internals like Spring and Hibernate.

Good to Have Skills - Understanding of financial markets and familiarity with fixed income is preferred - Experience with Python - Experience operating and improving code quality standards through conventions and automated tooling, such as IDEs and SAST services. - Experience presenting technical contributions and innovations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Experience working with Middleware Integration technologies like Kafka

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

Job: *Development

Title: Vice President - Lead Software Engineer - Parametric

Location: Non-Japan Asia-India-Maharashtra-Mumbai (MSA)

Requisition ID: 3249353