Director, Software Engineer

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm offering 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 Technology, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.

About the role

Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Director, Software Engineer in Alpharetta, GA to monitor team performance through metrics dashboards and identify continuous improvement opportunities. Communicate risks, blockers, and impediments to team lead; recommend and implement operational solutions. Conduct squad assessments to ensure agile principles and best practices are being met and achieved. Manage multiple projects simultaneously and resolve impediments ahead of deadlines. Work with agile and deployment lifecycles and/or tracking and process management tools. Identify and analyze opportunities and make tactical and strategic recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Monitor team performance through metrics dashboards and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Communicate risks, blockers, and impediments to team lead; recommend and implement operational solutions.
• Conduct squad assessments to ensure agile principles and best practices are being met and achieved.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and resolve impediments ahead of deadlines.
• Work with agile and deployment lifecycles and/or tracking and process management tools.
• Identify and analyze opportunities and make tactical and strategic recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
• Five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Technology Lead, Technology Analyst, Systems Engineer, or a closely related occupation.
• Five (5) years of experience with the following skills:
  1. Oracle Access Manager, RSA Adaptive Authentication, and Sailpoint IIQ;
  2. Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, and WebLogic;
  3. Java, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS;
  4. Linux, Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX), and Windows;
  5. Oracle, SQL, and MSSQL;
  6. Splunk, AppDynamics, and Dynatrace;
  7. Robotic process Automation including Blue Prism;
  8. Rest and SOAP API’s, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), JavaServer Faces (JSF), and Log4j;
  9. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Agile Methodologies, Microsoft Excel and Visio;
  10. JIRA, Service Now, and Postman;
  11. Gathering business and technical requirements;
  12. Business and Data Analysis;
  13. Process and System Analysis;
  14. Data Visualization;
  15. Ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance of production systems through engineering solutions;
  16. Developing observability strategies, configuring monitoring tools, and setting up actionable alerts;
  17. Performing post-mortems, and conducting root cause analysis (RCA).

Qualifications

• Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.

Benefits

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.

Pay

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $132,000 and $135,000 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.

Schedule

Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.

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 Technology, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.