Java / Scala Developer (Application Development), Vice President

at  Morgan Stanley

Java / Scala Developer (Application Development), Vice President
Job Number:

3249710
POSTING DATE: May 30, 2024
PRIMARY LOCATION: Non-Japan Asia-Singapore-Singapore-Singapore
EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor’s Degree
JOB: Development
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full Time
JOB LEVEL: Vice President

DESCRIPTION

Senior Software Developer - ISG Surveillance - Vice President
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.
Position Description:
ISG Trade Surveillance team builds and executes complex surveillance models that focus on Trade monitoring against regulatory expectation and firm policy. A senior developer in this space partners with Compliance, business analysts, and global team members to drive forward the business agenda through solid design and execution. Primary business focus is to help deploy controls to monitor Market Abuse behavior for Institutional Trading activity. In addition, this role requires coordination with other ISG functions within the region.
The ideal candidate should have the skills listed below but in addition should be a self-driven, dedicated individual who works well in a team and thinks and acts strategically. In addition, the candidate should respond well to change and quickly pick up new concepts in an ever-moving regulatory landscape. When faced with a problem, the candidate should be able to ask questions and leverage the skill set of those around him/her. This is a hands-on development role.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with internal clients, and the rest of the squad/fleet to establish/agree on requirements and systems functionality, delivering value incrementally through pragmatic Agile practices.
• Design and implement relevant detection, analysis, and reporting tools
• Establish and promote SDLC and architecture best practices, in line with departmental and divisional guidance, along with a strong focus in devops/SRE principles in partnership with support and central engineering teams.
• Act as a change agent for the team, region, and global department.
• Act as role model/promote best practices for SDLC.

QUALIFICATIONS

Skills Required

• Core Java/Spark expertise
• Understanding of Capital Market
• SDLC and Dev Ops experience.
• Strong team player to be able to work with the global team.

Other Skills Desired

• Previous experience in surveillance, risk, compliance or electronic trading technology in the context of trading activities (equities and/or fixed income)
• Knowledge on Spark, Databricks, Snowflake (or other cloud based big data solutions)
• XML based technologies
• Full stack development (React … )

• Partner with internal clients, and the rest of the squad/fleet to establish/agree on requirements and systems functionality, delivering value incrementally through pragmatic Agile practices.
• Design and implement relevant detection, analysis, and reporting tools
• Establish and promote SDLC and architecture best practices, in line with departmental and divisional guidance, along with a strong focus in devops/SRE principles in partnership with support and central engineering teams.
• Act as a change agent for the team, region, and global department.
• Act as role model/promote best practices for SDLC