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This is a Lead Software Engineering position at Vice-President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining 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:\nDesign, develop, and enhance applications supporting the ingestion, mastering, and distribution of Securities Reference Data (SRD), with a focus on Index and ETF reference data.\n\nBuild and maintain scalable Java- and Python-based services supporting reference data workflows across existing SRD platforms and modernization initiatives.\n\nManage and enhance workflows related to instrument hierarchies, identifier mappings, constituent relationships, benchmark relationships, and vendor-driven data changes.\n\nPartner with business analysts, stakeholders, and end users to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.\n\nDrive end-to-end delivery of application enhancements, production changes, and strategic development initiatives.\n\nEnsure high standards of data quality, timeliness, lineage, and governance across reference data platforms.\n\nAnalyze and resolve production issues while assessing downstream impacts across trading, risk, operations, and regulatory processes.\n\nCollaborate with global development teams to deliver resilient, high-performing services leveraging REST APIs, microservices, Kafka, relational databases, and MongoDB.\n\nWhat you'll bring to the role:\n8+ years of relevant IT experience, preferably within Financial Services\n\nExperience in Java and/or Python development within enterprise-scale applications.\n\nExperience in relational database technologies including SQL, tables, triggers, stored procedures, and data modeling concepts.\n\nExperience with REST APIs, microservices architectures, and event-driven platforms including Kafka.\n\nExperience working with MongoDB, Linux environments, JSON, and XML schemas.\n\nExperience working across the full software development lifecycle and collaborating with geographically distributed teams.\n\nUnderstanding of reference data concepts and financial instruments, particularly Indexes, ETFs, and related market data structures.\n\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude.\n\nAbility to communicate clearly and concisely, analyze complex business problems and deliver practical technical solutions with strong attention to detail.\n\nUnderstanding of open-source frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate, Shell scripting, scheduling platforms (ex. Autosys, Cron, Airflow), and modern observability tooling (ex. Open Telemetry, Grafana, Loki, Temp, Prometheus) is advantageous.\n\nAll our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.\nKnowledge of French and English is required.\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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