Vice President Technical Lead, Document Automation & AI Engineering

Were seeking someone to join our team as a lead document automation workflow automation and AI-enabled solutions engineer within Equity Derivatives Technology as part of a globally distributed team. Combines strong engineering fundamentals distributed systems experience and practical generative AI to deliver business value through iterative development.

Morgan Stanleys market leading institutional equity derivatives business is powered by a world class technology platform from front to back. Our platform manages the processing of Structured Products and OTCs for the exotic derivatives business. This is a complex business area requiring smart innovative and self-sufficient developers to work closely with sales trading and quants. As the business continues to grow we are undertaking a programme of change to increase our external connectivity via REST and FIX;

as well as a strong focus on improving our pricing tools. We are looking to build out a cloud ready horizontally scalable pricing system with zero downtime and single click deployment capability. This is an opportunity to get involved in shaping the pricing and workflow strategy and tooling. Reflecting the global nature of our business and systems the team is distributed between London New York Montreal Hong Kong and Mumbai.

Our strongest location in terms of numbers is London the ideal time zone for running a global team and where many of our business sponsors are also located. We are active in many out of work activities both socially and volunteering our time through various firm sponsored initiatives.

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 Principal Software Engineering position at VP level which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

Since 1935 Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services continuously evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What will you be doing:

• Lead document/workflow automation and platform modernisation; define scalable architecture for distributed business-critical systems.

• Drive engineering excellence quality and operational resilience; mentor engineers through design reviews and hands-on coaching.

• Own end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives partnering with business stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions and deliver value via rapid iteration.

• Participate actively in agile ceremonies (stand-ups planning retrospectives showcases) alongside business owners and other agile teams across the global fleet.

• Champion AI-assisted and agentic development applying generative AI to accelerate delivery and productivity.

• Define governance/guardrails for AI-enabled development; evaluate emerging technologies for practical application.

• Design scalable event-driven applications services and REST APIs; improve CI/CD observability and deployment automation.

• Design with performance memory efficiency capacity and reusability in mind conducting capacity analysis and management while partnering with infrastructure/platform teams to build reusable capabilities.

• Support incident management root-cause analysis and continuous improvement through automation and monitoring.

• Ensure solutions meet security regulatory and operational requirements.

• You will be a technically proficient and enthusiastic developer with a desire to work on back-end application development.

• You will support and lead different phases of the product lifecycle including analysis development and testing.

• You will develop new and existing components in Java. Previous commercially proven experience is required with a strong desire to develop your skills more widely.

• Additionally there is an opportunity to work with front end application development in HTML 5 Angular.

• You will be a proactive member of an agile development team focusing on efficient application delivery to meet business KPIs.

• You will be expected to promote best practices in terms of TDD development tools and technologies.

• You will be a proactive member of an agile team taking part in ceremonies and interact with business owners and stakeholders as well as other agile teams across the fleet

• The role will involve constant interaction with front office business users analysing and gathering requirements.

• The role requires good collaboration with members from the wider global team as well as neighbouring teams and systems such as pricing and trade capture.

• Equity derivatives product knowledge is not a pre-requisite but it is advantageous

What youll to the role:

• Extensive hands-on engineering experience in financial services or similarly demanding environments including complex distributed systems.

• Track record leading technical initiatives while staying hands-on working directly with…