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The role will focus on designing and building scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant platform capabilities that enable the Firm’s digital asset ecosystem, including digital asset custody, tokenization, blockchain connectivity, and smart contract services.\nThis role combines deep technical expertise in blockchain and distributed systems with strong engineering leadership to deliver resilient, enterprise-grade capabilities that can support digital asset use cases across the firm.\nIn the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.\nThis is Director or Vice President position that develops and maintains software solutions that support business needs.\nSince 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.\nWhat you’ll do in the role:\nLead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team responsible for building secure, scalable, and resilient digital asset custody capabilities within the Digital Assets Platform.\nDefine the engineering roadmap for digital asset custody, wallet and key-management capabilities, blockchain connectivity, transaction processing, and supporting platform services.\nLead the design, architecture, and implementation of custody solutions with a strong focus on security-by-design, protection of cryptographic keys, transaction integrity, segregation of duties, access controls, auditability, and operational resilience.\nDesign integrations with institutional custody and wallet technology providers, blockchain networks, node infrastructure, and downstream enterprise platforms.\nEstablish secure patterns for the digital asset transaction lifecycle, including transaction creation, policy validation, authorization, signing, submission to blockchain networks, confirmation, and reconciliation.\nPartner closely with cybersecurity, technology risk, compliance, legal, operations, and product teams to translate custody, regulatory, security, and operational-control requirements into robust technical solutions.\nOwn production readiness and reliability, including CI/CD, monitoring and observability, incident management, disaster recovery, business continuity, and secure release management for critical digital asset services.\nImplement rigorous engineering practices covering secure coding, automated testing, threat modeling, vulnerability management, code review, security testing, and production controls.\nWhat you’ll bring to the role:\n7+ years of relevant technology experience, typically supported by a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.\n3+ years of hands-on experience with digital assets, blockchain, tokenization, or distributed-ledger technologies, preferably delivering production solutions.\nStrong experience with cloud-native architecture and infrastructure, preferably AWS, together with CI/CD, DevSecOps, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and modern platform-engineering practices.\nStrong understanding of digital asset and blockchain architecture, including distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, cryptography, transaction lifecycle, and on-chain/off-chain integration patterns.\nExperience integrating institutional custody and wallet infrastructure, including key management, secure transaction signing, custody providers, and wallet orchestration.\nUnderstanding of tokenization and smart-contract platforms, including common token standards such as ERC-20, ERC-721, and permissioned/security-token patterns, and experience integrating these capabilities into enterprise applications.\nUnderstanding of institutional digital asset transaction and settlement workflows, including custody, transfer, tokenized assets, Delivery versus Payment (DvP), and on-chain/off-chain settlement.\nFamiliarity with the broader digital asset technology ecosystem, including node/RPC infrastructure, blockchain connectivity, stablecoins, and third-party digital asset service providers.\nWHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:\nAt Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated - and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.\nTo learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.\nExpected base pay rates for the role will be between:\nFor Director level - NY & CA - $120,000 - $170,000\nFor VP Level - NY & CA- $155,000 - $215,000\nper year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs\nMorgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. 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