About the role
structured by ORIABOUT 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,…
What you will do
- Work closely with the business unit and other team members to understand and document requirements
- Design and develop integration solutions with 3rd party data providers and systems
- Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
- Create unit/integration/functional tests
- Follow our development process and guidelines
What they are looking for
- 5+ years of experience developing cloud native applications
- Experience with object-oriented coding languages such as C# or Java
- Ability to work well in a highly social and collaborative environment
- Strong knowledge of various AWS cloud services like ECS, S3, Batch, EC2
- In depth experience with various message streaming technologies like Kafka
- Solid understanding of Docker containerization
- IaaS familiarity, working knowledge of Terraform
- Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT or SVN
- Working experience with agile development
- Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools
- Working knowledge of NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, MongoDB etc.
- Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments
Nice to have
- Python design and development experience is a plus
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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 www.morganstanley.com.
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 Quantitative Development team supports Portfolio Management, Strategy and Research with equity models and tools to guide our investment process. This includes portfolio construction, backtesting, transition analysis and other analytical tools.
As part of the Quantitative Development team, the Senior Research Software Engineer will be responsible for modernizing existing applications, building new applications and ensuring compliance with SDLC requirements.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work closely with the business unit and other team members to understand and document requirements
- Design and develop integration solutions with 3rd party data providers and systems
- Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
- Create unit/integration/functional tests
- Follow our development process and guidelines
- Conduct code reviews of other developers, merge-request reviews
- Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
- Act as the security expert for the development team by advocating for secure coding practices and implementing security related features
- Responsible for researching and implementing software development initiatives that are cross functional and may be passed off to other groups later
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- 5+ years of experience developing cloud native applications
- Python design and development experience is a plus
- Experience with object-oriented coding languages such as C# or Java
- Ability to work well in a highly social and collaborative environment
- Strong knowledge of various AWS cloud services like ECS, S3, Batch, EC2
- In depth experience with various message streaming technologies like Kafka
- Solid understanding of Docker containerization
- IaaS familiarity, working knowledge of Terraform
- Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT or SVN
- Working experience with agile development
- Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools
- Working knowledge of NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, MongoDB etc.
- Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments
- Effective communication skills with business users and other developers
- Familiarity with AI and related technologies, with the ability to apply them in a business or technical context
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.
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