Cloud & Digital Assets Platform Engineering Lead
Morgan Stanley4 days ago
Base Salary
$195k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for AWS and GCP cloud platform design, implementation, modernization, governance, and multi-cloud or hybrid operating models.
- Define architecture, technology roadmaps, standards, guardrails, landing zones, reusable platform patterns, and cloud operating models.
- Design and deliver blockchain-enabled platforms, tokenization solutions, digital asset lifecycle services, and integrations with public, private, and permissioned blockchain networks.
- Lead engineering for microservices, distributed systems, Web3 technologies, smart contracts, blockchain security, governance, and operational support.
- Develop reusable infrastructure modules and templates using Terraform and promote automated provisioning, policy enforcement, compliance validation, and operational efficiency.
- Lead architecture reviews and modernization initiatives involving rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, and cloud-native transformation.
- Collaborate with product, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, risk, infrastructure, and application teams while mentoring engineers and architects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of software and infrastructure engineering experience building and supporting enterprise-scale cloud, blockchain, and digital asset solutions.
- Hands-on enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure experience with both AWS and GCP, including landing zones.
- Strong understanding of tokenization, smart contracts, distributed ledger technologies, networking, security, identity and access management, and cloud governance.
- Familiarity with financial services, capital markets, digital custody, or regulated environments.
- Preferred qualifications include cloud security and compliance experience, platform engineering and self-service enablement experience, public/private/permissioned blockchain and Web3 experience, multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud experience, and relevant AWS or Google Cloud certifications.
Benefits
- Morgan Stanley offers comprehensive employee benefits and perks, support for employees and their families, opportunities for internal mobility, and a collaborative, inclusive work environment.
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.