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23d ago

Vice President, Software Engineer

Morgan Stanley New York, NY

New York, NY

23d ago

$190k - $210k/yr Full time Backend Developer Manager Senior

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Job Description

At Morgan Stanley, this Vice President Software Engineer role offers an opportunity to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of a risk management platform used by large hedge funds and institutional clients. The position emphasizes scalable risk calculation, regulatory compliance, and automated reporting, with mentorship and cross-team collaboration across the firm. It is a hybrid role in New York, with a salary range of USD 190,000 to 210,000 per year, and telecommuting up to one day per week.

Responsibilities

Drive the ongoing evolution of the risk management system to address regulatory updates, new business initiatives, and efficiency gains.
Design and architect modules of the Risk Calculator platform to meet complex requirements for major hedge funds and institutional clients.
Develop solutions that process and compute risk across a broad spectrum of asset classes.
Incorporate advanced simulation engines to forecast portfolio risk under hypothetical market scenarios, enabling stress tests and what-if analyses.
Build systems capable of handling millions of risk metrics daily, utilizing distributed computing and scalable architectures to ensure performance and reliability.
Translate intricate business processes and financial product knowledge into actionable technical solutions through collaboration with stakeholders to align with business objectives.
Design and implement interfaces for automated risk reporting, margin calculation, and integration with upstream and downstream systems, supporting real-time and batch processing.
Ensure the risk management platform complies with industry regulations.
Provide hands-on guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to development teams, promoting best practices in software engineering, design patterns, and system scalability.
Telecommuting permitted up to one day per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering (any) or related field
Five years of experience in the offered role or five years as a Java/Scala Developer, Senior Manager, Associate, or related technology role
Experience with high-performance, low-latency distributed systems
Proficiency in Java
Proficiency in Python
Proficiency in Spring Boot
Experience with SQL, NSQL, and hybrid databases
Experience with microservices architecture
Experience with Docker
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Kafka
Real-time streaming data processing and performance tuning for sub-millisecond execution
Cloud-native deployments on AWS or Azure
Experience with stress testing
Knowledge of PV01 (Price Value of 01)
Knowledge of trade lifecycle workflows in equities, fixed income, and derivatives
Knowledge of VaR

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