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Form of workMorgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic.
Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.Institutional Securities Technology (IST) develops and oversees the overall technology strategy and bespoke technology solutions to drive and enable the institutional businesses and enterprise-wide functions. Our clients include Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research and Global Capital Markets.A Java developer is required to join a Tier 1 investment bank supporting the Equity Swaps Trading technology group.
This is a global front-office team that supports the global OTC Equity Swap Portfolio, Single Name, and Index derivative businesses.This is a Java middleware developer position and you will contribute to the various front to back systems used by the Equity Swaps Trading desk to manage the life cycle of the Equity Swap product.You will be responsible for developing system enhancements and fixes, writing quality unit tests, liaising closely with business users, producing release notes, providing support in the UAT testing stages, coordinating release signoff, assisting in the release and deployment activities, and providing production support post-deployment.The candidate should have good analytical skills, strong software engineering skills, a logical approach to problem solving, and be able to liaise with various stakeholders to understand complex requirements. This role suits people experienced in complex data domains. Agile is a key initiative for our team, to ensure that we can deliver value to the business whilst ensuring code quality and good software development practices are followed.Although the role is predominantly Java, we require someone who is flexible with the development environment, as some days you might be writing Java, and other days you might be writing stored procedures or scripts.We discuss design, development, etc very regularly over calls/video conferencing tools.
So good verbal and written communication, and ability to contribute and speak up effectively is necessary. A significant portion of the team have been in the same team for many years, so there are plenty of experienced people in the team to provide guidance and lend a hand.The team and role is ideal for someone looking for a strong career development path with many opportunities to grow, learn and develop. We have a great supportive team, and one that would provide you with mentoring in the initial few months to help you get up to speed and comfortable with our business and environment.Skills Required:* Bachelors in Computer Science / Maths / Engineering / Science disciplines* Experience in Java in an enterprise environment* 3-5 years of experience leading development initiatives* Understanding of message/event based architectures (MQs, Kafka etc)* Sybase and/or DB2, with a proficiency in writing SQL queries to extract information* Excellent verbal and written communication skills* An interest to learn the business supported by the applications* Good Problem solving and analytical skills.
Knowledge of UI technologies would be useful - Angular, C#, WPFSkills Desired/Nice to have:* Web (Angular/React)* Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment* Basic scripting in any of Unix, Perl or Python would be beneficial* Knowledge of the equity derivatives* Knowledge of Agile software development practices* Database performance tuningMorgan 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).Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $100,000 and $150,000 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.
