Morgan Stanley · 11 hours ago
Enterprise Architect - Wealth Management Technology
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$195K/yr - $275K/yr
15+ years expMorgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking and wealth management services. They are seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead technology adoption and governance for their Wealth Management Technology platform, ensuring compliance with architectural principles and best practices.
Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesLending
Responsibilities
Define, govern & assure compliance of the methods, tools & processes used to develop & operate world-class technological solutions, based on architectural principles
Define & evolve of the longer-term strategic direction of the technology organization
Lead and coordinate Enterprise Architecture activities with the business, IT architects/experts, etc
Develop, implement and execute processes for the definition, maintenance and conformance management of Enterprise Architecture
Lead Architecture governance review board, ensuring compliance to industry best practices and firm standards, policies, procedures etc. consolidate governance artefacts and risk reporting to divisional leadership
Work with Engineering heads, Development leads, Infrastructure and Product owners in understanding the requirements, evaluating architecture, design consulting, implement solution designs that will scale over time at operational stability, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimization
Lead architecture & design for strategic initiatives, Identify and escalate risks, issues and potential roadblocks in execution plans
Build consensus, mediate conflicts, provide advisory services, technical leadership and create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all stakeholders. Provide architectural leadership in the resolution of inter-program and inter-project issues and advice management, business areas on business and information integration strategies
Develop and communicate Architecture Standards, Best practices, Blueprints and provide prescriptive guidance on application and systems design. Create awareness, promote and communicate the Enterprise Architecture within the WM Technology division
Build architecture capability & community within Wealth Management Technology
Recruit and manage a small team of highly motivated engineers who can translate the architectural vision to working prototypes, robust frameworks and catalyze engineering squads
Qualification
Required
Overall experience is at least 15+ years. Depth of skills should be proportional to experience
Experience with Solution Design & Architecture, Data Architecture, Security Architecture & Cloud, preferably in a financial services industry context
In-depth experience in Architectural Design & Engineering Standards. Knowledge of data, Architecture and Governance frameworks & tools such as TOGAF, ARCHIMATE and C4
Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle & toolsets and Product Management methodologies
Understands importance of prioritization and focus on high value levers that drive change at scale across engineering organizations
Strong people manager, with excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills. Excellent communicator, experienced coaching & mentoring others
Demonstrated experience working at a senior or executive level in a complex organization delivering specialist and authoritative advice to executive leadership
Experience in hiring and building highly performing architecture teams within large and complex organizations
A passion for implementing change & keen attention to detail
Preferred
Experience with multi-threading, asynchronous code, garbage collector tuning, memory profiling, and transaction management
Database: Relational and NoSQL database design, schema modelling, indexing, performance tuning
Messaging: IBM MQ, JMS or Kafka, hands-on experience in at least one messaging technology
SOA: Web APIs, REST, gRPC, Build and operate micro-services at scale, efficient distributed caching
Cloud: Orchestrate microservices using Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Cloud Native Telemetry using Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
Minimum 10+ years' experience as a Technical/Solution Architect designing distributed applications, fault tolerance and recovery, performance engineering, scaling and low latency application design
Minimum 5 years' experience on developing Cloud native containerized apps for Azure or Openshift Kubernetes
Minimum 5 years' experience leading architecture governance forums and managing stakeholder conflicts
High level understanding of cloud concepts for Identity & Access management, OAuth, Network security, Geo redundancy, Data synchronization, Encryption, Hybrid & Multi-tenant cloud architectures, Service SLA monitoring and Cost optimization
Exposure on Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines, Helm Charts, GitOps, Mature DevOps practices like A/B testing, Blue Green/Canary deployments, Trunk based development
Benefits
Commission earnings
Incentive compensation
Discretionary bonuses
Other short and long-term incentive packages
Other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs
Company
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a financial services company that offers securities, asset management, and credit services.
10001+ employees
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Leadership Team
James Gorman
Chairman and CEO
Ted Pick
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
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