Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. We advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions and individuals. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. We provide you a superior foundation for building a professional career where you can learn, achieve and grow.
Technology is the key differentiator that ensures that we manage our global businesses and serve clients on a market-leading platform that is resilient, safe, efficient, smart, fast and flexible. The Technology division partners with our business units and leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global and dynamic financial markets.
Team Profile:
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. Our clients include Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research and Global Capital Markets.
Institutional Securities Group (ISG) Architecture Governance is responsible for development, communication and implementation of the Technology Architecture principles, standards, design patterns and governance that inform the development and engineering of the ISG Technology platform in support of the ISG business.
Position Description:
We are looking for a passionate Senior Enterprise Architect to drive strategic architecture vision and alignment across key stakeholders; and define and govern architecture standards, principles, best practices, and patterns for divisional adoption.
The ideal candidate brings knowledge of Agile, Cloud, DevOps principles and values; experiences in collaboration across complex organizations, removing impediments, and ensuring team progress towards their missions and deliverables. Candidate must possess strong leadership skills, able to resolve issues and interdependencies across organizations.
Responsibilities:
- Create the target state vision and business architecture strategies and facilitate the execution of IT delivery roadmap in-line with the business goals.
- Create, lead and/or influence cross domain solution architectures articulating the impacts on apps, data and technology.
- Identify the opportunities for modernization, convergence, and optimization of the current state portfolio and provide the technology options to address the gaps in target state.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership, and platform architects and product strategy leaders to develop domain roadmaps across functions.
- Keeps current with trends and technological innovations in the Finance and IT industry and makes appropriate development recommendation.
- Define and enable a risk control culture while delivering on architecture, technology, and business vision.
- Keep abreast of External regulations and Internal Policies that impact Architecture Practices.
- Manage engagement with internal partners (e.g., Cloud, DevOps, Architecture teams, Data, etc.).
- Take ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through Scrum-of-Scrum ceremony.
- Project 'auditor' to ensure conformance to architecture guardrails and policies.
- Architectural leadership in resolution inter-program issues and encouragement of convergence opportunities.