Executive Director - Sr. Technical Lead - Electronic Trading Platform
Morgan Stanley2 months ago
Base Salary
$195k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of business-critical trading systems from architecture through production support.
- Act as the primary technical partner to traders, desk heads, product partners, and technology teams.
- Lead and mentor developers while setting technical direction, engineering standards, and ownership expectations.
- Drive delivery in partnership with risk, compliance, infrastructure, and support teams to maintain production stability and controls.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to improve productivity, quality, and delivery efficiency.
- Remain hands-on in architecture, development, code review, and troubleshooting for high-performance trading systems.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building trading, risk, pricing, order-management, or market-data systems.
- Strong knowledge of financial markets and instruments including equities, derivatives, FX, rates, commodities, or cross-asset products.
- Proven technical leadership in architecture, engineering standards, mentoring, and delivery.
- Hands-on experience with distributed, high-performance, or low-latency systems and production operations.
- Ability to communicate with senior non-technical stakeholders and balance urgency, resilience, and maintainability.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools with appropriate validation, security, and controls.
- Strong judgment and systematic problem-solving ability in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks for employees and their families.
- Opportunities for career mobility across the business.
- Work in a global organization with more than 80,000 employees across 1,200 offices in 42 countries.
- Equal-opportunity, diversity, and inclusion-focused workplace.
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About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, sales and trading, wealth management, and investment management to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. It earns fees, commissions, and interest and trading income across advisory, underwriting, brokerage, and asset management businesses. Founded in 1935 and headquartered in New York, the public company operates in more than 40 countries through thousands of offices, including a large U.S. wealth management franchise.