Morgan Stanley JAVA Technical Lead/ - Vice President - IST (Institutional Securities Technology) Profile Description Were seeking someone to join our team as (Vice President) JAVA/J2EE Application Development Lead for our market leading institutional equity derivatives business. It is powered by a world class technology that manages the processing of Structured Products and OTC's for the exotic derivatives business from front to Back IST (Institutional Securities Technology) Institutional Securities Technology (IST) develops and oversees the overall technology strategy and bespoke technology solutions to drive and enable the institutional businesses and enterprise-wide functions. ISTs clients include Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, Prime Brokerage and Global Capital Markets. ESTAR Develops trading & Analytics platform for IST, structured OTC Trading, Market Making & risk platform for IED Technical Specialist This is a Vice President position within our Technical Specialist function, which is responsible for providing extensive subject matter expertise and reinforcing the ability of business and technology audit teams to appropriately assess risk and determine and execute coverage. Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. At Morgan Stanley India, we support the Firms global businesses, with critical presence across Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment management, as well as in the Firms infrastructure functions of Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Legal and Corporate & Enterprise Services. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in India since 1993, with campuses in both Mumbai and Bengaluru. We empower our multi-faceted and talented teams to advance their careers and make a global impact on the business. For those who show passion and grit in their work, theres ample opportunity to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work. Interested in joining a team thats eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on What youll do in the role: As the business continues to grow, we are undertaking a program of change to increase our external connectivity via REST and FIX; as well as a strong focus on improving our pricing tools. We are looking to build out a cloud ready, horizontally scalable pricing system with zero downtime and single click deployment capability. This is an opportunity to get involved in shaping the pricing strategy and tooling. Reflecting the global nature of our business and systems, the team is distributed between London, New York, Montreal, Hong Kong and Mumbai. We are active in many out of work activities both socially and volunteering our time through various firm sponsored initiatives. Existing Tech Stack: Java (8+) Python HTML 5, CSS3, Angular Git, Teamcity, Jenkins, Stash Globally distributed n-tier platform deployed across Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and New York Utilization of the latest Firm technologies including Treadmill PaaS, Splunk-based LaaS and Service Discovery Roles & Responsibilities: You will be a proficient Java developer, who will be hands on, in a delivery focused role. You will be mentoring the developer. You will be involved in the design and architecture of the system You will have strong product knowledge of equity derivatives and ideally structured products and OTC's. You will have strong communications skills to build a strong relationship with business stakeholders including sales, trading and quants. You will be a proactive member of an agile development team, focusing on efficient application delivery to meet business KPI's. You will encourage innovation and set technical guardrails for the development team. You will help develop and lead the technology strategy within the department, as well as ensuring it aligns with the global technology strategy. Opportunity to work with front end application development in HTML 5, Angular and scripting in python. You will help implement and ensure the team follows SDLC best practices.