Application Development Team Management : Level - Executive Director

We’re seeking someone to join our team as an Executive Director to lead the strategy, adoption, and delivery of a cloud-native platform-as-a-service ecosystem that enhances resiliency, observability, scalability, and operational excellence across critical electronic trading and post-trade platforms. 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 an Executive Director position within the Application Development Team Management which is part of the job family responsible for leading application development teams, defining technology strategy, overseeing software delivery, and ensuring the design, development, implementation, and support of business-critical technology solutions. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

• Lead the Polaris platform strategy supporting low-latency trading, post-trade processing, and real-time risk platforms.
• Define and implement cloud-native architecture standards with application, infrastructure, and platform teams.
• Drive adoption of Kubernetes platforms, observability solutions, and standardized integration patterns.
• Review architectures to identify technology drift, operational risks, and compliance gaps.
• Design end-to-end testing and validation strategies aligned with trading workflows and business processes.
• Champion automation and Agentic AI capabilities to improve onboarding, deployment, and platform operations.
• Resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, observability, messaging, authentication, and applications.
• Provide technical leadership while driving scalability, resiliency, capacity planning, and platform modernization initiatives.

• Extensive experience leading application and platform delivery teams in enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and multi‑tenant platform design.
• Experience working across development, infrastructure, and production support teams.
• Proven leadership of Dev Ops and Python engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, TLS, certificates, and infrastructure technologies.
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka, observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions.
• Excellent troubleshooting, stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.

Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross‑section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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All our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec.

We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.

Knowledge of French and English is required.

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