As a member of the Reliability and Production Engineering team within Sales and Trading Production Management, you will be supporting critical trading applications in a fast paced, exciting, and dynamic Trading Floor environment. You will work within a team of technologists acting as the first point of contact for Compliance, Risk, High Touch Trading Desks, and Development teams.

Our team is responsible for:

• Coordinating the preparation and trading of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), working closely with NYSE, NASDAQ, BATS, and IEX.
• Investigation of user queries. E.g. order rejects, trade breaks, exchange issues. Liaising with clients, exchanges, vendors, and internal teams where appropriate.
• Notifying the business units of system issues or failures in a timely manner. Communicating with global counterparts when necessary.
• Creation of new tools and automation of processes to better support and proactively monitor our environment (Python Preferred).
• Liaising with users and development teams on potential improvements to our trading applications
• Proactive & reactive monitoring of processes, connections & trade flows.
• Incident and problem management adhering to ITIL framework
• Assisting Compliance/ Risk on regulatory inquiries and user permissions.
• Testing failure scenarios to identify problems and improve outage recovery procedures.

Qualifications

• Must enjoy working within a team and have the ability to communicate well cross functionally
• Ability to translate business needs into technical specifications
• Excellent problem solving skills and passion for developing new and creative solutions to complex problems
• Ability to interact with Traders and the drive to learn about securities and markets
• Good business knowledge of Equities would include the ability to demonstrate an understanding of different instruments and how and where they trade. This would also include the ability to describe an order book and the different order types that can be used
• Understanding of SQL and Sybase databases.
• Understanding of operating systems (UNIX, PC)
• Understanding of real time distributed application architectures and experience with message based protocols e.g. FIX.
• Incident management skills - Ability to own issues from start to finish, with a commitment to determining root cause and follow ups.
• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and cycle is a 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 $90,000 and $150,000 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'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).