Principal, Technology Alignment & Resilience - Parametric

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

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 Technology Alignment and Resilience team is responsible for enabling enterprise technology execution, operational resilience, and cross-platform alignment across the Parametric business and technology ecosystem:

• We lead the planning, coordination, and execution of critical technology alignment and resilience initiatives, ensuring Parametric's platforms, services, and operating practices remain stable, recoverable, and aligned to Morgan Stanley enterprise standards.
• The team rives alignment across critical initiatives by coordinating dependencies, clarifying ownership, managing execution risk, and ensuring delivery remains connected to enterprise standards and long-term platform strategy.
• We support modernization and resilience priorities by enabling teams to operate within a consistent governance model while advancing Parametric's broader technology alignment agenda.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Principal, Technology Alignment and Resilience
role is responsible for leading large, complex technology programs across Parametric's Technology Alignment and Resilience portfolio. This role supports enterprise-level execution across data center exit, ACDC, cloud modernization, application readiness, technology enablement, business continuity, disaster recovery, incident management, and Shared Services coordination.
This role interacts and presents information throughout the organization, working closely with technology leaders, business stakeholders, application developers, Morgan Stanley Shared Services partners, and executive stakeholders. This role requires the ability to create clarity, manage ambiguity, drive accountability, and move complex work forward across multiple teams with competing priorities.

A key focus of this role is serving as a primary partnership and coordination lead with MS Shared Services teams. The role will help clarify ownership, intake paths, service expectations, delivery dependencies, escalation channels, and decision points required to support PPA data center exit, modernization, resilience, and technology alignment objectives.

This role does not own day-to-day migration execution or overall enterprise strategy. Instead, it is accountable for program execution alignment, governance readiness, dependency management, Shared Services accountability, executive decision support, and disciplined follow-through across a complex, regulated financial services environment. This role helps convert strategic direction into clear execution paths, documented decisions, and measurable progress.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and manage large, complex enterprise-level technology programs across data center exit, ACDC, cloud modernization, application readiness, resilience and technology enablement.
• Drive application readiness an disposition governance across a large application portfolio, ensuring applications have clear ownership, documented readiness, resilience, and technology enablement.
• Serve as a primary coordination and relationship lead with MS Shared Services partners across infrastructure, enterprise technology, cloud, security, risk and operational functions.
• Support enterprise strategy and alignment for Data Center Exit, and enterprise modernization
• Define, socialize, and enforce enterprise principles, guardrails, and decision frameworks.
• Partner with Architecture, Infrastructure, Product, and Engineering leaders to align multi-year roadmaps and investment priorities.
• Act as a senior interface between Technology, Business, Risk, Security, Compliance, and governance stakeholders.
• Coordinate application readiness inputs for MS migration sequencing, wave planning, cutover preparation, decommission readiness, exception handling, and post-migration validation.
• Maintain consolidated views of program status, blockers, risks, owner actions, decision paths, aging ex
• Elevate material risks, dependencies, and systemic issues requiring senior leadership intervention.
• Support steering committees and executive forums with concise, outcome-focused decision papers and strategic insight.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, vendor strategy, operating models, and technology enablement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce legacy complexity, execution friction, technical debt, and operating model risk while supporting scalable modernization outcomes.
• Engage with program/process owners, stakeholders and business partners as necessary to communicate project objectives, strategy, tactics, and ongoing progress. Drive alignment and build trust with stakeholders. 
• Facilitate and enhance the communication and process between IT and the business to establish software engineering priorities, work direction, and best practices; includes working with key stakeholders in the business, business analysts, and developers. 
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities while maintaining strong business relationships. 
• Effective balance of membership, business, and technical goals with available resources (this is really about resource allocation 
• Escalate material risks, ownership gaps, missed decisions, readiness gaps, and execution blockers through appropriate leadership and governance channels. 
• Identify opportunities to improve program management practices, reduce execution friction, strengthen operating discipline, and improve delivery consistency.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years of experience in financial services technology environments.
• 10+ years leading large-scale technology programs, infrastructure programs, application migration efforts, cloud modernization initiatives, or enterprise transformation work.
• Proven experience leading Data Center Exit, enterprise modernization, or comparable large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Deep understanding of enterprise application landscapes, dependency management, and modernization of trade-offs.
• Extensive experience operating within regulated, risk-managed environments.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives and drive outcomes across complex, matrixed organizations.
• Exceptional executive communication, strategic storytelling, and governance leadership skills.

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.

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Salary range for the position: $115,000 - $225,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings

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.

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