Graph Architect - Executive Director

Overview

The Firmwide Data Office (FDO) sits within Morgan Stanley Technology and focuses on data as a key priority within the overall Technology and the Firm strategy.

We are a team of around 200+ people distributed globally and are engaged in a wide array of projects touching all business units (Institutional Securities, Investment Management, Wealth Management) and functions (Operations, Finance, Risk, Trading, Treasury, Resilience, Production Management) across the Firm. The team vision is a multi‑year effort to improve data governance & management practices, to demonstrate data quality controls, simplify the firm’s data architecture and business processes front‑to‑back, empower developers by providing consistent means of handling data, and facilitate data‑driven insights & decision making.

We are working on an exciting new initiative to build an Enterprise Knowledge Graph by harnessing the power of Graph and Semantic technologies along with Big Data and other innovative technologies to map complex business, application, data, and infrastructure asset relationships to facilitate data‑driven insights and decision making.

The Firmwide Data Office department is recruiting for an enthusiastic, dynamic, hands‑on and delivery focused Application Development Lead (Technical Architect) for this innovative program that plans to harness the power of Graph & Semantic Technologies to build an Enterprise Knowledge Graph. As a member of our Software Development team, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices.

You will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, and partner with stakeholders to stay focused on business goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You will work in a collaborative, trusting, thought‑provoking environment that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

You will combine your design and development expertise with a never‑ending quest to create innovative technology through solid engineering practices, working with a highly inspired and inquisitive team of technologists who are developing & delivering top‑quality technology products to our clients & stakeholders.

• Leading diverse technology team contributing to this strategic initiative
• Develop people through coaching, mentoring and management
• Lead the design, development and support of full‑stack, n‑tier distributed applications
• Act as a thought leader in the technical space through researching and knowing industry trends as well as cutting‑edge tools and technologies
• Collaborate with business and other technology teams to translate business requirements into innovative solutions implementing performant, scalable, resilient distributed applications
• Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to align development priorities & planning with product and technology roadmap

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Analytics or related field
• 12+ years of extensive experience designing and implementing n‑tier distributed applications, large‑scale data pipelines, Web applications
• Successful experience leading high‑performing development and engineering teams with a proven and demonstrable track record of execution and delivery
• Strong problem‑solving skills, business acumen, and demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills with both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Experience & expertise across following aspects:
  • Java – Core Java, Multithreading, Spring, Caching, Security/Authentication
  • API Design and Development – REST, Graph
    
    QL, JSON, Microservices Architecture
  • Experience architecting, designing and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure or AWS.
  • Design Patterns, Object Oriented Design
  • Agile Development, TDD, BDD
  • Full software development life cycle
  • Implementing Dev Ops techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test…