Business Analyst - Director - Software Engineering

Profile Description

We're seeking someone to join our FORT (Operations Technology) team as a Business Analyst. End-to-end delivery of large-scale distributed applications across analysis, design, coding, testing, and maintenance. The role supports secure and efficient global payments processing and requires strong technical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

In 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.

Since 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.

This is Director position that develops and maintains software solutions that support business needs.

What you'll do in the role:

• Analyze front- and middle-office transactional systems and drive business-enablement projects across teams, regions, and the full trade lifecycle.
• Partner with Front Office, Reporting, Risk, Compliance, Operations, Sales and Trading, IT, and other stakeholders to define requirements for orders, fills, trades, and related data.
• Analyze transaction-message flows and develop or enhance logical data models that support multiple asset classes, new businesses, and products.
• Define consistent messaging, data-persistence standards, and strict rules-based data contracts across business and product lines.
• Perform root-cause analysis of data-contract violations and coordinate with system owners and developers to resolve issues.
• Manage requirements, documentation, project coordination, and clear communication across global stakeholder groups.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE ROLE:

• 3–5 years of relevant business-analysis experience and a bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Experience with logical data modeling for the representation and storage of trades, ideally using ER diagrams.
• Broad knowledge of front- and middle-office transactional systems and front-to-back trade flows across asset classes.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to devise creative solutions to complex messaging and modeling problems.
• Basic SQL knowledge; exposure to DB2, Greenplum, or kdb is desirable.
• Excellent technical writing, verbal communication, requirements-gathering, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong relationship-building, project-management, coordination, and multitasking capabilities in a fast-paced global environment.
• Experience with FIX messaging and in-depth front-to-back knowledge of at least one asset class, such as Cash Equities or Listed Derivatives, is desirable.

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.

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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.