Lead Data & Analytics -Vice President-Software Engineer

Profile Description Division We’re seeking someone to join our FORT team as a Lead Data & Analytics, in to Our platform provides one of the most critical functions enabling the firm to effect security settlements in all the markets the firm conducts the business in. On peak volume days, the Firm processes up to forty million trades and effects settlements worth of hundreds of billions of dollars for activity ongoing in multiple countries and currencies across the globe. Our platform provides one of the most critical functions enabling the firm to effect security settlements in all the markets the firm conducts the business in. On peak volume days, the Firm processes millions of trades and effects settlements worth of hundreds of billions of dollars for activity ongoing in multiple countries and currencies across the globe. Our team has significant presence in Montreal, New York, and India. We are organized into agile squads closely aligned with product owners, users, and other stakeholders, which allows us to directly observe the business benefit of the solutions we develop, deploy and support. We believe in the forward momentum and progress of technology, and our goal is to apply the best tools and practices to deliver exceptional capabilities for our business users. We in Securities Settlements Tech are looking for a VP (Lead Data Engineer) in Mumbai/Bangalore, preferably with exposure to Cloud Architectures & Public Cloud offerings to join our team building a large, resilient, scalable, and secure distributed settlement platform. You will be a leader building software and managing huge volume of data to support and improve efficiency of firm’s settlement related activities. Working in an agile environment, you will have to interact directly with the users, product owners, business analysts, and other technologists across the firm. If you have a track record of leading a team and delivering large-scale distributed applications, preferably on Azure/Cloud, we’d like to meet you. 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: * Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and other teams to clarify the requirements, define milestones and backlog based on business priorities, team capability and velocity. * Drive the definition of system architecture and design. * Write clean, performant, scalable, testable, and reusable code. * Review pull-requests, and guide more junior developers helping them to adopt the best design, coding, and testing practices. * Lead the team to follow the best DevOps practices and enhance observability, availability, and resiliency. * Act as an end-to-end owner ensuring the system is developed, tested, deployed as planned and is performing as expected in production environments. * Contribute to enhancing team standards and improving processes. Skills required (essential): * Hands-on, with 10+ years’ experience in building distributed systems with high volume. * 5+ years of experience in owning a delivery end-to-end and leading a development team comprised of Backend and/or Data Engineers * Experience with Spark, Databricks, and Snowflake, Python for building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, transforming large datasets, and optimizing performance for enterprise-scale analytics. * Strong knowledge of Kafka and real-time streaming architectures to design reliable, low-latency data pipelines and integrate data from multiple sources. * Proficiency in MS SQL, MongoDB, and schema/data modelling with a solid understanding of query optimization, data warehousing, and handling both structured and semi-structured data. * Strong working knowledge of AI spec driven development and leveraging...