Enterprise Architect - Wealth Management Technology

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethics. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Technology (WMT) is responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of the technical solutions behind the products and services used by the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Business. The WMT Architecture team is responsible for leading technology adoption, production stability, code quality and engineering practices for the Wealth management technology platform. The Architecture team works on leading cloud adoption, prototyping innovative solutions, evaluates technology/industry landscape, adopt best practices for the firm, consulting engineering teams on solution architecture, design, performance engineering, security, scalability & disaster recovery.

• Define, govern & assure compliance of the methods, tools & processes used to develop & operate world-class technological solutions, based on architectural principles.
• Define & evolve of the longer-term strategic direction of the technology organization
• Lead and coordinate Enterprise Architecture activities with the business, IT architects/experts, etc.
• Develop, implement and execute processes for the definition, maintenance and conformance management of Enterprise Architecture.
• Lead Architecture governance review board, ensuring compliance to industry best practices and firm standards, policies, procedures etc. consolidate governance artefacts and risk reporting to divisional leadership
• Work with Engineering heads, Development leads, Infrastructure and Product owners in understanding the requirements, evaluating architecture, design consulting, implement solution designs that will scale over time at operational stability, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimization.
• Lead architecture & design for strategic initiatives, Identify and elevate risks, issues and potential roadblocks in execution plans
• Build consensus, mediate conflicts, provide advisory services, technical leadership and create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all stakeholders. Provide architectural leadership in the resolution of inter-program and inter-project issues and advice management, business areas on business and information integration strategies.
• Develop and communicate Architecture Standards, Best practices, Blueprints and provide prescriptive guidance on application and systems design. Create awareness, promote and communicate the Enterprise Architecture within the WM Technology division.
• Build architecture capability & community within Wealth Management Technology
• Recruit and manage a small team of highly motivated engineers who can translate the architectural vision to working prototypes, robust frameworks and catalyze engineering squads

The Lead Enterprise Architect advises senior management on the enterprise architecture strategy and plays a vital role in achieving digital transformation. S/he defines, develops and maintains the enterprise architecture, and maps the enterprise architecture to the core architecture control processes and underlying application, data and infrastructure architectures. This role requires you to provide architecture leadership & subject matter expertise to internal IT teams.

You should thrive on diving deep into complex technology environments and express these as industry standard architecture diagrams and well-articulated solution narratives to senior leadership levels. You are expected to stay updated on…