Full Stack Java/Scala/DB2 Engineer - Vice President

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management 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. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career—a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Liquidity Planning fleet, building a globally consistent liquidity reporting and risk-management platform via the strategic 6G implementation. It integrates regulatory calculators (LCR, NSFR, GSIB, FINRA SLS) with stress-testing and migrates liquidity calculations to strategic platforms.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Design and deliver scalable, maintainable software solutions using strong object-oriented design principles.
• Develop and maintain data ingestion platform (ETL/Streaming) for large scale data warehousing.
• Build and enhance automation tools and scripts to support development and operational workflows.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, improving release reliability and deployment efficiency.
• Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices to ensure quality, testability, and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications in UNIX/Linux environments.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 10+ years of relevant hands on software development experience, with demonstrated good ownership and independent delivery.
• Strong DB2 database admin experience and project exposure for real time solutions in tunning of database performances including (not limited to) stored procs, views, MQTs.
• Hands-on experience with RDBMS and SQL, such as DB2, PostgreSQL, or Sybase.
• Good programming skills in Scala, Java & Python with understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
• Proficiency in Linux/UNIX, including command-line usage and shell scripting for automation.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and TDD.
• Experience working in modern SDLC environments, including Agile methodologies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have) Qualifications:

• Exposure towards Spark architecture.
• Exposure to Snowflake and/or other cloud technologies
• Experience with Big Data and non-relational platforms (e.g., Hadoop, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with DevOps tooling and automated change management processes.
• Experience with scheduling/automation tools and scripting such as AutoSys, UNIX shell, or Perl for DevOps automation.
• Background in computer science fundamentals, including complexity analysis and computational optimization.
• Experience in the financial services industry, particularly accounting/finance-related domains.
• Knowledge of business reporting concepts, data design, and data science fundamentals.

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 into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $155,000 and $215,000 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:

At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values. Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first-class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world. In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society.