Morgan Stanley Hiring for Vice President – App Dev Team Mgmt (Application Development) at Bengaluru, India Full Time

Vice President – Mainframes Application Development Lead – Wealth Management

Company Profile
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.
Wealth Management Technology
Wealth Management Technology is responsible for the design, development, delivery, and support of the technical solutions behind the products and services used by the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Business. Practice areas include: Analytics, Intelligence, & Data Technology (AIDT), Client Platforms, Core Technology Services (CTS), Financial Advisor Platforms, Global Banking Technology (GBT), Investment Solutions Technology (IST), Institutional Wealth and Corporate Solutions Technology (IWCST), Technology Delivery Management (TDM), User Experience (UX), and the CAO team.
Job Profile
Practice Area Group Investment Solutions Tech IT (IST) provides support to Capital Markets, Advisory, Financial Planning, Retirement and Mutual Funds, Life Insurance & Alternative Investments.

Capital Markets technology team is spread between US and India and is involved in developing trading solutions for Wealth Management clients across Equity, Options, Fixed Income, Syndicates and other businesses.

Project Description

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Technologist with extensive experience in designing, developing and supporting applications using mainframe technologies, as well as good understanding of distributed technologies and tools (Java/J2EE, SQL Server, .NET etc). She/he will work closely with the global team and will help manage the existing applications as well as contribute to building next generation applications/platforms supporting critical front office functions.

This person will lead the development team and will work across the Wealth Management IT organization globally to ensure the system meets all technical specifications.

The Candidate will play a key role in the execution of the Program and will:

• Work with senior Business Partners and Program Management team to define strategy

• Evaluate the Projects architecture and identify opportunities for broadening the scope of the solution

• Ensure adherence to the standard SDLC processes

• Ensure all Technology and Information Risk guidelines are followed

• Evaluate the existing states and help to define the future state architecture and solutions. Lead the development of the same

• Manage the global development team and define the staffing requirements to support the development needs of the project

• Ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the highest level of quality

• Mentor team members

• Work with application support teams to ensure timely issue resolution and thorough support processes

• Be self-motivated, flexible, highly adaptable and an excellent team player, and be prepared to work in a global virtual team along with team members from multiple locations.

Skill Set
Primary Skills / Must have

A hands-on Senior Technologist with 15 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing and supporting enterprise applications end-to-end.

• Proven track record of managing the development of large scale complex mainframe applications that involves connection with multiple upstream & downstream applications

• Good Hands-on experience with CICS, Cobol, DB2, Webservices, JCL, VSAM etc

• Experience with managing multi-tiered Java/J2EE Applications involving web services using standard Java based frameworks/toolkits (REST, SOAP, JSON, and XML).

• Strong people management and development skills

• Demonstrated track record of managing multiple development projects at once

• Significant content knowledge of Capital Markets is desirable

• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), listening skills, influencing and negotiation skills

• Excellent analytical skills, performance trouble shooting and remediation skills

• Ability to develop and foster relationships with resources outside of direct-control

• Full SDLC experience
  Qualifications/Criterion
  **Bachelors/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field

• 10 -15 years of experience in the Capital Markets group within the financial services industry is desirable

• Experience with data model designing and modelling tools

• Ability to develop and follow change management processes for consistent and maintainable versions

Secondary Skills / Desired skills

• Exposure to the financial services industry

• Management experience in onsite-offshore model

Job: *Development

Title: Vice President – App Dev Team Mgmt (Application Development)

Location: Non-Japan Asia-India-Karnataka-Bengaluru

Requisition ID: 3212048