Lead Engineer - Securities Lending
Morgan Stanley17 hours ago
Hong Kong, Hong KongStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of an assigned programme or defined work area, including scope, plans, dependencies, quality, and production readiness.
- Analyze trading and lifecycle workflows with Trading, Operations, and Product stakeholders and define requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Design and implement services for trade capture, inventory and position flows, returns, recalls, re-rates, lifecycle processing, and integrations.
- Lead a platform renovation workstream involving phased migration, interface design, reconciliation, and compatibility with existing systems and controls.
- Make engineering decisions within the agreed architecture and contribute to broader architecture discussions.
- Guide engineers through implementation and code review, coordinate work, and manage and develop staff where assigned.
- Maintain automated tests, secure coding, observability, release, and recovery practices; investigate production issues and deliver sustainable fixes.
- Communicate solution options, improvements, dependencies, and risks to product, technical, business, and Technology stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience with strong hands-on server-side development in Java or Scala.
- Experience with service design, integration, relational databases, SQL, and Unix/Linux.
- A strong record of end-to-end software delivery and technical ownership of a substantial application, programme, or defined workstream.
- Practical experience with distributed systems, messaging, data consistency, and diagnosing complex application behavior.
- Experience working with business users on trading, financing, lifecycle, or comparable transaction-processing systems.
- Experience delivering production changes using automated testing, code review, release planning, monitoring, and incident resolution.
- Evidence of guiding engineers and coordinating delivery with global teams; formal people-management experience is helpful but not required.
- Strong analytical, written, and spoken English communication skills.
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Valuable experience includes Securities Lending or Prime Brokerage, platform renovation or legacy migration, data reconciliation, phased adoption, modern Java frameworks, event-driven services, streaming technologies, CI/CD, cloud-ready engineering, and responsible use of approved AI-assisted development tools.
Benefits
- Hong Kong-based role working closely with the local business and global technology teams.
- Morgan Stanley describes comprehensive employee benefits and perks, support for employees and families, an inclusive environment, and opportunities for internal career mobility.
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.