Vice President, Strats

Company Profile:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, 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.

In the Fixed Income division, we work in fast-paced and constantly changing global markets to assess and manage risk, trade securities, manage relationships with clients, and structure and execute innovative transactions.

What you’ll do in the role:

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is seeking a Vice President, Strats in New York, New York to build, deploy, and support trade software systems, analytical tools, and scalable trading engine infrastructure. Partner with trading, sales, operations, and senior management to understand key system issues in the trade lifecycle and propose technical solutions. Gather and analyze large sets of data through various systems and implement complex mathematical calculations. Utilize statistical and machine learning tools to analyze market data and identify trading and operational efficiency opportunities. Propose changes in trading systems based on data analysis and simulation results. Utilize quantitative skills, programming skills, and experience implementing mathematical models in KDB+, Java, Scala, and Python. Telecommuting permitted up to 1 day per week.

What you’ll bring to the role:

-Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study.

-Requires five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Programmer, Associate, Vice President, or related occupation.

-Requires five (5) years of experience with the following skills:

• Working with Open-Source technology and performing full-stack development;
• Working with fixed-income securities and reference data sets;
• Developing multi-tier systems using Java or Scala;
• Testing and mocking frameworks including JUnit and Mockito;
• Scripting within a UNIX environment using Python 3, R 3.x, bash and utilities including: Awk, Sed, and jq;
• Working on Typescript-based web application frameworks and libraries including Angular or React;
• Source-control management using Git and Bitbucket;
• Working within a UNIX-based, enterprise-level development environment;
• Utilizing build tools including Gradle and Make;
• Relational databases including DB2/PostgreSQL, NoSQL database MongoDB, and time-series database KDB+/q;
• FIX protocol;
• Data processing in XML and JSON over REST, SOAP, and MQ;
• Distributed systems;
• Apache Spark;
• Apache Kafka;
• Spring Boot based microservices; and
• Working directly with project stakeholders.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $250,000 and $250,000 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.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.