Lead Mainframe Hardware Engineer

In the Technology division, 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. This is a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering position at Vice President Level, which is part of the job family responsible for managing and optimizing technical infrastructure and ensuring the seamless operation of IT systems to support business needs effectively.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.

This role serves as a senior technical leader for the Enterprise Z platform that supports the firm's critical business applications. The candidate will drive execution across the full hardware lifecycle, from planning and installation through production support, refresh, and secure decommissioning. The candidate will also help lead resiliency, security, automation, and AI adoption efforts, partnering with engineering, operations, risk, audit, and vendors.

Work Schedule This role requires regular weekend work to support hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, decommissions, and scheduled maintenance windows.

The candidate will participate in an on-call escalation rotation and must be available outside normal business hours to respond to production incidents and escalations.

What you’ll do in the role:

Coordinate hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, and decommissions, including site readiness, cabling, power, connectivity, schedules, and change approvals.

Manage vendor teams and access, escalate issues, and hold vendors accountable for delivery and SLAs.Maintain stability, resiliency, and SLA delivery across IBM Z processors, DASD, tape, SAN/FICON fabric, replication, consoles, and timing infrastructure.

Own hardware lifecycle execution end to end, from demand planning and procurement through refresh, secure sanitization, and disposal.

Lead hardware evaluations for major technology refreshes, covering engineering, security, encryption, capacity, and installation planning.

Drive cyber recovery and security improvements, including patch deployment, privileged access, encryption, and secure logging.

Keep the environment audit-ready through accurate inventory, end-of-life remediation, lifecycle evidence, change controls, and secure handling of data-bearing assets.

Expand automation through API-based management, orchestrated workflows, and automated inventory reporting.

Lead the team's AI adoption for hardware work such as certificate management, configuration analysis, patch assessment, change preparation, troubleshooting, and audit evidence collection.

Develop the team and keep technical leadership coverage in place across the hardware portfolio and transformation work. What you’ll bring to the role:

Extensive mainframe hardware engineering experience in a large, regulated environment.

Strong knowledge of IBM Z, DASD, Tape, FICON/SAN, Replication, and HMC/console infrastructure.

Proven record leading complex installations, HCD, migrations, and decommissions across many teams.

Experience managing major hardware vendors, SLAs, and escalations.

Solid understanding of infrastructure security, including encryption, privileged access, and patch management.

Experience with change management, asset management, and audits.

Strong communication skills with senior management and non-technical stakeholders.

Experience leading and developing technical staff.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with mainframe hardware installations and…