AI Platform Engineer / Architect - VP

Our mission is to develop a firmwide Artificial Intelligence (AI) Development Platform that aligns with the firm's Technology principles and drives efficiency and consistency, controls, security and strong governance and promotes innovation, enabling teams to build applications that leverage AI capabilities and accelerate the adoption of AI across our businesses. This role is for a platform engineering specialist who will help build a firmwide AI Development Platform and drive adoption of AI capabilities throughout the enterprise. We have multiple focus areas across the platform and are looking for energetic, multi-disciplinary candidates who are eager to contribute to providing scalable, secure, enterprise-wide solutions for the firm. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience building software platforms on any combination of the following platforms - Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS, Azure, and/or Google), API based development, REST framework, data engineering, and large-scale API Gateway environments etc. Knowledge of AIML and hands-on experience implementing solutions using Generative AI are also preferable. The candidate will have great communication skills, a team-based mentality and a strong passion for using AI to increase productivity as well as help generate new ideas for product & technical improvements. In the Technology division, 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. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world. What you'll do in the role: Below is a sample of potential responsibilities depending on product / focus area * Develop tooling and self-service capabilities for deploying AI solutions for the firm leveraging Kubernetes/OpenShift, Python, authentication solutions, APIs, REST framework, etc * Develop Terraform modules and Cloud architecture to enable secure AI cloud service deployment and consumption at scale * Have a platform mindset and build common, reusable solutions to scale Generative AI use cases using pre-trained models as well as fine-tuned models. * Leverage Kubernetes/OpenShift to develop modern containerized workloads * Integrate with capabilities such as large-scale vector stores for embeddings. * Author best practices on the Generative AI ecosystem, when to use which tools, available models such as GPT, Llama, Hugging Face etc. and libraries such as Langchain. * Analyze, investigate, and implement GenAI solutions focusing on Agentic Orchestration and Agent Builder frameworks. * Author and publish architecture decision records to capture major design decisions and product selection for building Generative AI solutions. Inclusive of app authentication, service communication, state externalization, container layering strategy and immutability. * Ensure AI platform are reliable, scalable, and operational; (e.g. blueprints for upgrade/release strategies (E.g. Blue/Green); logging/monitoring/metrics; automation of system management tasks) * Participate in all team's Agile/ Scrum ceremonies. * Participate in team's oncall rotation in build/run team model What you'll bring to the role: * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent job experience * 8+ years of experience in software engineering, design and development * Strong hands-on Application Development background in at least one prominent programming language, preferably Python Flask or FAST Api. * Broad understanding of data engineering (SQL, NoSQL, Big Data, Kafka, Redis), data governance, data privacy and security. * Experience in development, management, and deployment of Kubernetes workloads, preferably on OpenShift. * Experience with designing, developing, and managing RESTful services for large-scale e