Lead Software Engineer : Vice President

We’re seeking someone to join our FORT Tech team as a Vice President -Java & Cloud Engineering, in Operations Technology.

Operations Technology develops and maintains systems in support of Morgan Stanley’s global Operations , including (but not limited to) Settlements, Confirmations, Regulatory Reporting, Position Keeping, Corporate Actions processing and other post-trade functions. Operations Technology is a global organization that is client-focused and functionally aligned. Our organization is built to support our clients functional, regional and business-facing requirements while delivering innovative technology and ensuring plant and processing stability. The Firm operates at scale with up to 40 million trades processed on peak volume days and hundreds of billions of dollars of daily settlements with activity ongoing in multiple countries and currencies across the globe. There is a great breadth of financial products that our Operations plant handles across equity and fixed income, from cash products to complex derivatives and loans.

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 Vice President  position that develops and maintains software solutions that support business needs.

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.

What you’ll do in the role:

Technology Leadership
• Define and drive the strategic technology roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for distributed, event-driven, cloud-native platforms.
• Establish engineering standards, architectural principles, and development best practices.
• Drive modernization initiatives, platform transformations, and cloud adoption strategies.
• Champion non-functional requirements including scalability, resiliency, performance, observability, and security.
• Ensure architecture decisions support future business growth and operational efficiency.

Delivery & Execution Leadership
• Lead multiple Agile squads and engineering teams across geographies.
• Own end-to-end delivery of strategic programs, ensuring quality, predictability, and timely execution.
• Drive planning, prioritization, dependency management, and execution across multiple workstreams.
• Manage risks, impediments, and delivery challenges while maintaining alignment with business priorities.
• Partner with Product, Operations, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and Business stakeholders to deliver functional objectives.
• Establish and monitor engineering metrics, operational KPIs, and service health indicators.

People Leadership
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams.
• Provide career guidance, coaching, and technical mentorship to Directors, Managers, and Senior Engineers.
• Lead performance management, succession planning, talent reviews, and workforce planning.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, diversity, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Attract, retain, and grow top engineering talent.
• Develop future technology leaders within the organization.

Stakeholder & Organizational Leadership
• Serve as a trusted technology partner to senior business and technology leaders.
• Influence investment decisions and technology strategy through data-driven recommendations.
• Communicate technology vision, execution status, risks, and opportunities to executive stakeholders.
• Drive cross-organizational collaboration and alignment across multiple teams and functions.
• Balance short-term delivery commitments with long-term strategic goals.

Risk, Controls & Governance:
• Ensure compliance with enterprise technology standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Drive operational excellence, production stability, and resiliency improvements.
• Establish governance processes for architecture reviews, engineering quality, and SDLC controls.
• Lead incident management reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Leadership & Management
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading large engineering organization…