Java/Scala Data Engineer, Vice President - Bukit Merah
We are seeking someone to join our team as a Data Engineer as part of the Fixed Income Federal Risk Applications department.
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.
The Fixed Income Federal Risk Applications department has a strong presence in Singapore. Our focus is developing systems serving as a data integration and feeding platform, ensuring that calculation results and other data initiated in our Division reaches our downstream clients and meeting all their requirements.The main challenges in this area are the volume of the data (feeding hundreds of gigabytes daily), interfacing with multiple other systems, being exposed to different financial products to a certain extent and being resilient to errors while keeping our SLA-s.
The data we feed is critical in fulfilling the regulatory requirements set by the FED, PRA or BAFIN. Our team is also involved in developing calculations of regulatory scenarios requested by our Market Risk Department. The main technical challenge for this team is computational complexity.
This is a Software Engineer position at Vice President Level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, continuously 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:
- Lead the development of new ideas and/or policies in own area.
- Analyze multiple sets of information to create summaries for various stakeholders
- Develop IT systems covering various aspects of the business run by our Institutional Securities (Fixed Income and Equities) division
- Have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with our business user and learn business concepts like how certain financial products and financial markets work
- Participate in every stage of the lifecycle of an IT system ranging from gathering the requirement and refining user stories, designing solutions, and writing code to help our support organization to answer the most interesting user questions
- Work on a diverse technology landscape involving various programming languages (Java, Scala, Python), data management systems, CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins)
- Our team has a wide coverage on technical and business problems to solve ranging from developing data integration and feeding solutions having extreme throughput and resiliency requirements to calculating regulatory scenarios requested by our Market Risk Department. The choice will primarily depend on skillset, personal interest and team fit
What you'll bring to the role:
- Experience in executing IT strategy, delivery and complex initiatives.
- Ability to present information in a clear and concise manner to technology and business leadership.
- Advanced understanding of functional area and competent understanding of competitive environment.
- At least 8 years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role.
- Prior experience in developing data or computation intensive (e.g. grid based) backend applications is an advantage
- Desire to work with various stakeholders in order to understand business requirements and deliver best value for them
- Strong knowledge of data engineering, architecture and data modeling
o Experience in platforms like Databricks and Snowflake is a bonus
o Experience on building applications on cloud (AWS or Azure or Google Cloud)- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- OOP design skills with an understanding or at least personal interest towards the concepts of Functional Programming
- Willingness to understand and enhance other people’s code, being able to work in an environment where developers will oversee and work on wider components also dealing with older “legacy” code
- Strong programming skills (Java/ Scala) skills with the willingness to pick up the other language if not already mastered at a sufficient level is important
- Spring knowledge is an advantage, but in general willingness to learn, work with and even enhance in-house developed frameworks is a must
- Prior experience in working with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, working with PR-s, using JIRA, following the Scrum Agile methodology is an advantage
- Prior knowledge of financial products is an advantage
- Bachelors or Masters in any relevant field of IT/Engineering area is an advantage
What you can expect from Morgan Stanley
We have a track record of innovation and passion for unlocking new opportunities, we help our clients raise, manage and allocate capital. We do this by offering a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and asset management services.All that we do at Morgan Stanley is driven by our five core values: do the right thing, put clients first, lead with exceptional ideas, commit to diversity and inclusion, and give back. These aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day, ensuring we do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees around the world.
And at the core of our success are the people who drive it - relentless collaborators and creative thinkers who are fueled by diverse thinking and experiences. Wherever you are in our 1,200 global offices, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are empowered to achieve your full potential.
We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.