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With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.\nABOUT PARAMETRIC:\nParametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.\nThis role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.\nABOUT THE TEAM:\nThe Investment Systems team at Parametric:\nWe are building financial software that solves for some of the world's most complex financial opportunities. 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The role spans multiple services within the team, building out underlying components that provide critical services to the Equity Portfolio Management Platform. These services help streamline rule-based portfolio analytics, order generation and straight through processing enabling exception driven portfolio management.\nThis position will report into the Investments & Innovation Platform team and work closely with team leads across Technology teams, Business Analysis as well as Business Partners. In this role, you will lead developers and projects and provide mentoring opportunities to the development team.\nA critical objective for this role is to support the architecture and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, leveraging AWS cloud native technologies, designing and implementing micro-services and a relentless focus on performance and resilience.\nPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nDesign and develop proprietary solutions for the Equity Direct Indexing portfolio management teams\n\nProvide technical leadership by directly managing a team of engineers, guiding and mentoring them to achieve their highest potential while collectively advancing the goals and projects of the engineering team.\n\nDrive vision and strategy for the team while exemplifying strong leadership skills, including communication, consensus building, elevated standards, ownership, accountability, and project management.\n\nDesign, develop, and maintain services and API to support various business needs\n\nLeverage scalable and distributed computing principles to build the next generation of services\n\nEnsures that software solutions remain integrated, efficient, and appropriate for a highly regulated industry.\n\nCreate unit/integration/functional/performance tests\n\nConduct code reviews of other developers\n\nShare experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity\n\nMaintain regular collaboration with teams and stakeholders in the US West Coast time zone, including flexibility to support overlapping working hours when needed.\n\nJOB QUALIFICATIONS\nRequired Experience: 12+ years\nSkill set: Software design / Dev/ Java / J2EE / relational database\n Primary Skills\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area of study\n\n12+ years of hands-on development experience managing all aspects of technical projects with a proven track record of delivering well architected and well written software solutions.\n\n3+ years of managing software development teams and providing direct guidance, mentorship, project leadership, and team development while fostering an engaging, collaborative environment and building strong cross-team relationships\n\nStrong Java and Spring Boot experience\n\nExperience with microservices and distributed systems\n\nStrong debugging and troubleshooting skills\nStrong aptitude for highly efficient data structures and algorithms\n\nCloud native development experience a plus: AWS is preferred\n\nExposure to event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka)\n\nWorking knowledge of SQL , RDBMS ,NoSQL database engines such as Redis & DynamoDB\n\nExperience using enterprise AI development tools, including GitHub Copilot Enterprise and GitHub Spec Kit, to enable AI-powered Specification-Driven Development.\n\nProven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments.\n\nDemonstrated initiative, ownership, and a results-oriented approach to solving complex business and technology challenges.\n\nDemonstrated sound judgment, integrity, and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes in a collaborative environment.\n\nStrong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.\n\nFamiliarity with AI and related technologies, with the ability to apply them in a business or technical context\n\nGood to Have Skills\nExperience with React or modern front-end frameworks\n\nStrong knowledge of relational databases and SQL\n\nAsset management experience\n\nExperience governing enterprise AI agents through secure access, auditability, human oversight, and emerging standards.\n\nParametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.\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.\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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