Enterprise Architect - Vice President - Morgan Stanley

Team Profile Institutional Securities Technology (IST) develops and guides technology strategy and creates bespoke solutions that drive and enable the institutional businesses and enterprise-wide functions. Our clients include:

• Fixed Income
• Equities
• Commodities
• Investment Banking
• Research

Institutional Securities Group (ISG) Architecture Governance is responsible for developing, communicating, and implementing Technology Architecture principles, standards, patterns, and governance that inform the development and engineering of the ISG Technology platform in support of the ISG business.

We are seeking a passionate Enterprise Architect to drive strategic architectural vision and alignment across key stakeholders, and define and govern architecture standards, principles, best practices, and patterns for divisional adoption.

The ideal candidate demonstrates knowledge of Agile, Cloud, and Dev Ops values; experience collaborating across complex organizations, removing impediments, and ensuring teams progress toward their missions and deliverables. They should possess strong leadership skills and be adept at resolving issues and managing interdependencies across organizations.

• Create target state vision and business architecture strategies; facilitate execution of IT delivery roadmap in line with business goals
• Lead or influence cross-domain solution architectures, articulating impacts on applications, data, and technology
• Identify opportunities for modernization, convergence, and optimization of the current portfolio; provide technology options to bridge gaps in target state
• Collaborate with engineering leadership, platform architects, and product strategy leaders to develop domain roadmaps
• Stay current with trends and innovations in Finance and IT, recommending appropriate developments
• Define and promote a risk control culture while delivering architectural and technological vision
• Monitor external regulations and internal policies impacting Architecture Practices
• Manage engagement with internal partners (Cloud, Dev Ops, Architecture teams, Data, etc.)
• Resolve issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other teams or through Scrum-of-Scrum ceremonies
• Act as project 'auditor' to ensure conformance to architecture guardrails and policies
• Provide architectural leadership in resolving inter-program issues and fostering convergence opportunities
• Proven experience as a general Enterprise Architect in large development organizations
• Good knowledge of Enterprise Architecture models such as TOGAF and experience operating and governing architecture processes

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field from an accredited university