Technology Vacancy: MDM – Developer job | London

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

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. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Department Profile:

Institutional and Corporate Technology (ICT) is one of five divisions within Technology & Data. We face off to the business and support services to develop and oversee the overall technology strategy and bespoke technology solutions to drive and enable the enterprise. Our clients include Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, Global Capital Markets, Operations, Finance, and Legal & Compliance. We are responsible for Pioneer and Application Infrastructure, groups that look to develop foundational strategies, tools and technologies that are leveraged across Tech & Data, as well as standardized data and enterprise-wide services to provide leverage to the Firm’s businesses.

Team Profile:

This position is for a senior lead developer who will be responsible for the delivery of the key projects for the Client Reference Data (CRD) group.

CRD team has commenced on several strategic initiatives to better our technology and data management platform. These initiatives involve building state of the art solutions using industry standard architectural methodologies such as Business Process Management, Event Driven MOM, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as well as MDM for data management and Business Intelligence Reporting infrastructure.

The team currently has a need for an innovative and energetic lead developer to help in building the strategic platform. This position represents a unique opportunity to work with latest, bleeding edge technologies as well as work with various IT and Business teams across the firm

Primary Responsibilities:

The candidate will be involved with every facet of software development, from requirement analysis; design and development to helping the team continuously improve its agile development practices.
Client Index provides a unique identifier for a party that is matched against external (3rd party providers) golden sources of data to ensure Morgan Stanley can accurately identify counter parties. The candidate must also have strong communication and interpersonal skills to work very closely with team members in London, Bangalore and New York throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

Besides hands on involvement with projects, the candidate will be responsible for:
– Delivery of several Key projects or initiatives which will contribute to the building of the Client On Boarding Platform.
– Providing overall direction, guidance and definition of the application (platform) architecture.
– Building a solid development team which can work on these key initiatives.
– Improving the technical competency of the overall team in general.
– Establishing and forging key relationships with business and vendors alike.

Skills required

• Knowledge of ETL/Master Data Management
• Experience in Core Java/EE, Eclipse, Apache CXF, spring framework, Hibernate, Apache/Tomcat
• Good knowledge of JSP & Servlets, Web Infrastructure, and UNIX system
• Knowledge of DB2 RDBMS with strong fundamentals in database designing
• Knowledge of distributed systems, Apache, Tomcat, MQ Series,
• Understand SDLC processes, Technical Analysis, Application Development, Relational database Design and Development, Training. Schedule and conduct Release Turnovers/Deployments through QA/UAT and Production.
• Good Analytical troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Team player with Strong written and oral communication skills. Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts
• Willingness to learn new technologies and work on the same to meet business requirements

Skills desired

• Good knowledge of C /Flex/.Net as secondary skill would be a definite plus.
• Experience in Web technologies like Servlets / JSP / Struts / Spring / Hibernate.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential.*LI-JB1