Description:
Technology
Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools.
Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses’ and to our own. Prime Brokerage, Funding and Finance Technology (PBFFT) Prime Brokerage, Funding and Finance Technology (PBFFT) is part of Technology.
This group is responsible for developing enterprise applications for the Finance product controllers. The Product Control Services team is distributed globally across London, New York, Budapest, Montreal and Mumbai. The team deals with finance business services such as query engine, signoff workflow and adjustment framework. The team is mostly co-located with Finance end users, and has daily interacts with them.
Position Description:
The team develops applications to provide services for Morgan Stanley's Liquidity Investments and Funding Controllers group. These applications include a feature-rich Windows UI, highly flexible and scalable services, large scale online analytical processing of large datasets and warehouse reporting. The technology team practices agile development and uses multiple JVM languages including Scala, Java and Groovy. The team is working a front-to-back initiative to migrate accounting from a legacy platform to an upgraded platform. It addresses regulatory and audit findings thematically, providing an efficient framework for better control and reporting over time.
The objectives of the projects include:
- Consolidate sourcing, integrating and verifying of information across Control Functions.
- Post to the General Ledger from that same repository, allowing easy drill-back to the underlying business events.
- Enable continued business process integration within and across Control Functions.
You will be expected to work as a member of the development team and participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, with automated testing, tools, and shared libraries development. The ideal candidate will possess solid technical and problem solving skills as well as the drive to learn more about the business and new technologies. Candidate should be open to work from front to back on applications and must have a sound grasp of development best practices and system architecture.
She/he will be expected to drive standardization and architecture discussion across the team and be responsible for high quality implementations. Expertise in any one of the following business domain would be preferable: Accounting, Finance and Control Functions.
Skills Required:
- 3+ years software development experience in Java or Scala
- Demonstrates exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills
- Database experience such as SQL, RDBMS etc.
- Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux
- Experience working in an agile team with focus on continued integration and automated testing - Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure Experience working on large and medium scale projects in an agile environment
- Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
Skills Desired:
- Experience with a functional programming language
- Prior experience with external requirement gathering and derivation
- Gradle build tool - Experience with mixture of new and legacy systems
- Experience building high volume and resilient systems
- Experience with web development using AngularJS framework