Principal, Technology Alignment & Resilience - Parametric

Parametric Overview

Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what’s important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi‑asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs.

We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients’ core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric’s hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

The Principal, Technology Alignment and Resilience role is responsible for leading large, complex technology programs across Parametric’s Technology Alignment and Resilience portfolio. This role supports enterprise‑level execution across data center exit, ACDC, cloud modernization, application readiness, technology enablement, business continuity, disaster recovery, incident management, and Shared Services coordination. This role interacts and presents information throughout the organization, working closely with technology leaders, business stakeholders, application developers, Morgan Stanley Shared Services partners, and executive stakeholders.

This role requires the ability to create clarity, manage ambiguity, drive accountability, and move complex work forward across multiple teams with competing priorities.

A key focus of this role is serving as a primary partnership and coordination lead with MS Shared Services teams. The role will help clarify ownership, intake paths, service expectations, delivery dependencies, escalation channels, and decision points required to support PPA data center exit, modernization, resilience, and technology alignment objectives.

This role does not own day‑to‑day migration execution or overall enterprise strategy. Instead, it is accountable for program execution alignment, governance readiness, dependency management, Shared Services accountability, executive decision support, and disciplined follow‑through across a complex, regulated financial services environment. This role helps convert strategic direction into clear execution paths, documented decisions, and measurable progress.

• Lead and manage large, complex enterprise‑level technology programs across data center exit, ACDC, cloud modernization, application readiness, resilience and technology enablement.
• Drive application readiness and disposition governance across a large application portfolio, ensuring applications have clear ownership, documented readiness, resilience, and technology enablement.
• Serve as a primary coordination and relationship lead with MS Shared Services partners across infrastructure, enterprise technology, cloud, security, risk and operational functions.
• Support enterprise strategy and alignment for Data Center Exit, and enterprise modernization.
• Define, socialize, and enforce enterprise principles, guardrails, and decision frameworks.
• Partner with Architecture, Infrastructure, Product, and Engineering leaders to align multi‑year roadmaps and investment priorities.
• Act as a senior interface between Technology, Business, Risk, Security, Compliance, and governance stakeholders.
• Coordinate application readiness inputs for MS migration sequencing, wave planning, cutover preparation, decommission readiness, exception handling, and post‑migration validation.
• Maintain consolidated views of program status, blockers, risks, owner actions, decision paths, aging ex.
• Elevate material risks, dependencies, and systemic issues requiring senior leadership intervention.
• Support steering committees and executive forums with concise, outcome‑focused decision papers and strategic insight.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment across applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, vendor strategy, operating models, and technology enablement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce legacy complexity, execution friction, technical debt, and…