Company Profile:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

In Technology, 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.

What you’ll do in the role:

Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. is seeking an Associate, Software Engineer in Alpharetta, Georgia to develop a framework to streamline web services development, reducing costs and improving team efficiency. Automate decision-making workflows and validate data objects, enhancing system flexibility and performance. Lead migration initiatives from legacy systems to scalable, open-source architectures, improving system flexibility, maintainability, and operational efficiency. Design and implement high-performance frameworks capable of processing millions of records. Develop end-to-end batch components including readers, processors, writers, job listeners, retry logic, skip policies, checkpointing, and restart mechanisms. Handle deployment activities across both on-premise environments and cloud-based repositories, ensuring seamless promotion of builds across development, testing, user acceptance testing, and production environments. Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify failures, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks. Participate in architectural discussions, defining enterprise batch processing standards, and ensuring adherence to security, compliance, and coding best practices. Provide production support, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), and implement performance tuning strategies for mission-critical financial batch workflows. Utilize containerization technologies to deploy and manage microservices, ensuring consistent performance across development, testing, and production environments. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.

What you’ll bring to the role:

-Requires a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study.

-Requires five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, Technical lead, or a related technical occupation.

-Requires five (5) years of experience with the following skills:

• designing and developing complex web applications using modern web application development technologies and frameworks;
• Developing large scale complex software solutions;
• Developing web services using standard Java-based frameworks/toolkits;
• Developing client-server, distributed, real-time applications;
• Concurrency and high volume server-side development;
• DB concepts and experience working on SQL Server;
• Messaging protocols MQ and Kafka;
• Developing standards/practices;
• The full Software Development Life Cycle of the project;
• Java/J2EE;
• UI technologies;
• Spring;
• myBatis;
• Gradle;
• MQ;
• Kafka;
• SQL Server; and
• Web services including REST, SOAP, JSON, and XML.

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.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $158,000 and $158,000 per 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.

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.