Job Description

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. 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.

ABOUT PARAMETRIC
Parametric 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.

This 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.

ABOUT THE TEAM
The Investment Systems team at Parametric:

• We are responsible for the development of Parametric's proprietary investment systems technologies, including our trading, compliance, and fixed income and derivatives portfolio management systems.
• We are building financial software to realize complex opportunities using advanced theory-driven strategies, enabling clients to optimize portfolios for their investment objectives.
• We are technology-driven and building for scale and resilience, enabling our business to support clients with improved efficiency and reduced operational risk.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Investment Systems: Fixed Income Investment Platform team is responsible for developing core components and architectural patterns used by Parametric's proprietary trading systems and shared across all Investment Systems teams and Fixed Income business. The Associate Software Engineer will contribute to the design, development, and integration of technology solutions for these systems. This includes supporting the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and solutions to help address key challenges for the organization.

Projects completed by this team are highly technical, are used by many other teams, and have an impact across the organization. We are seeking individuals who are self-driven, eager to learn, able to work with increasing independence, and comfortable engaging in productive communication while growing their technical expertise across a variety of areas. The ideal individual excels when working collaboratively with other talented individuals. Custom software solutions are a key element of our success and, as such, we consider software engineering a tier-one competency.

A key objective for this role is to support the architecture and delivery of scalable enterprise solutions by leveraging AWS cloud-native technologies, building microservices, and enhancing existing services following industry best practices with a strong focus on performance and resilience.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the design and development of high-quality and flexible technical solutions across multiple layers of application development, including APIs, application logic, performance, reliability, persistence, testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Assist in integrating shareable solutions within the development organization, such as code libraries, build automation, test automation, API conventions, and cloud architecture patterns.
• Contribute to the enhancement of architectures across new and existing applications, including persistence engines, cloud platforms, and code frameworks.
• Utilize programming and quantitative skills to create efficiencies for traders, analysts, and portfolio managers with the primary goal of improving systems.
• Work closely with investment professionals and other team members to understand and document requirements in order to help deliver solutions to complex business problems.
• Follow and support high standards for development maintainability, performance, and correctness.
• Share knowledge, ideas, and learnings with teammates to support continuous team growth and improvement.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS
Required Experience: 0-3 years
Skill set: Software Design / Java / J2EE / SQL

Primary Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related area of study
• Hands-on Java and J2EE development experience with Spring Boot.
• Strong foundation in object-oriented programming and software development principles
• Exposure to web-based UI development, such as Angular, React, or similar technologies
• Experience or familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Strong interest in learning new technologies and applying them in a business and technical context.
• Strong understanding of features and best practices across various programming languages.
• Interest in AI and related technologies, with a willingness to learn how to apply them in a business or technical context.
• Strong problem-solving mindset, curiosity to learn, and high integrity in a collaborative team environment
• Strong math orientation and numerical aptitude

Good to Have Skills

• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab or GitHub
• Financial services industry experience
• Exposure to developing cloud-native applications (AWS preferred)
• Exposure to scalable cloud-based solutions
• Familiarity with automated code quality tooling, such as IDE tooling and SAST services
• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Parametric 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.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At 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.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo