Executive Director - Sr. Technical Lead - Electronic Trading Platform
Morgan StanleyBase 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 leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With a 90-year history, Morgan Stanley today operates in 42 countries serving corporations, governments, institutions, families and individuals. Morgan Stanley is a talent business that demands ongoing investment in our people. Key drivers of our success have been the breadth and tenure of our talent, as well as a unique culture and a set of values that guide our employees. We view Morgan Stanley’s talent and culture as a key competitive advantage enabling the Firm to achieve its potential and drive future success. As an integrated firm with scaled capabilities, we partner with clients at every stage of their financial journey. Our ability to do so is grounded in four pillars that define Morgan Stanley: a clear and consistent strategy to help clients raise, manage and allocate capital; a culture grounded in rigor, humility and partnership; financial strength through capital, earnings power and durability; and growth driven by smart, strategic investment globally. These pillars enable Morgan Stanley to provide trusted advice, operate with resilience across market cycles and deliver long-term value to our clients and shareholders. Social Media Disclosures: mgstn.ly/SocialDisclosure