Senior UI Architect / Developer - VP - P4

Department Profile: Firmwide Data Office (FDO)

The Firmwide Data Office (“FDO”) sits within Morgan Stanley Technology and focuses on data as a key priority within the overall Technology and the Firm strategy.

We are a team of around 200+ people distributed globally and are engaged in a wide array of projects touching all business units (Institutional Securities, Investment Management, Wealth Management) and functions (e.g., Operations, Finance, Risk, Trading, Treasury, Resilience, Production Management) across the Firm. The team vision is a multi-year effort to improve data governance & management practices, to demonstrate data quality controls, simplify firm’s data architecture and business processes front-to-back, empowering developers by providing consistent means of handling data, facilitate data-driven insights & decision making.

Program Description:

We are working on an exciting new initiative to build an Enterprise Knowledge Graph by harnessing the power of Graph and Semantic technologies along with LLMs, and Agentic AI to map complex business, application, data, and infrastructure asset relationships to facilitate data-driven insights and decision making.

Across our business divisions, as we strive to understand risk impact, optimize cost, assess business resiliency, manage change, and identify opportunities - all critical to fuel the growth engine -, we need to link vast amount of data of different types and forms across heterogeneous data sources across the Firm to generate meaningful intelligence. The underlying data will describe the Firm’s businesses, business processes and various operational assets required to support those businesses (systems, technology infrastructure, datacenter facilities, workforce, workforce facilities, external supplier services and industry utilities).

Role:

The “Firmwide Data Office” department is recruiting for an enthusiastic, dynamic, hands-on and delivery focused Senior UI Architect and Developer for this innovative program.

As a member of our Software Development team, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner with stakeholders to stay focused on business goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally. You'll combine your design and development expertise with a never-ending quest to create innovative technology through solid engineering practices. You’ll work with highly inspired and inquisitive team of technologists who are developing & delivering top quality technology products to our clients & stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work with the product managers, stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into UX/UI deliverables
• UI design and development
• Act as a thought leader in the technical space through researching and knowing industry trends as well as cutting edge tools and technologies

Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Analytics or related field
• 8+ years of software development experience, with emphasis on Front End and UI/UX development
• Candidate must have hands-on and in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, React, Angular JS, JQuery, Redux, EXTJS, CSS
• Expertise in UI / UX design patterns and best practices
• Strong experience in building User Interfaces for data intensive platforms
• Experience with RESTful services, GraphQL, JSON
• Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Design patterns, Architecture and Application Integration
• Strong experience in architecting scalable applications that can support larger number of global users
• Hands-on experience with core dev-ops tooling and best practices and manage this at a platform level
• Hands-on experience for managing large UI product from delivery, code-quality and maintenance perspective
• Hands-on experience with automated test frameworks like Jasmine, Karma, Protactor etc.
• Experience in managing the deployments and build frameworks
• Full software development life cycle experience
• Agile Development, TDD, BDD
• Strong problem-solving skills, business acumen, and demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences

Desired Skills:

• Experience building UI / Visualization for graph-based data using frameworks like D3, Keylines
• Experience building Chatbots and other analytics applications using AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Experience with Design Thinking approach
• Financial Services experience will be a strong plus

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $150,00 and $210,000 per year atnthe 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's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).