PRIMARY LOCATION: Europe, Middle East, Africa-United Kingdom-United Kingdom-London
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.
Technology
Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses?and to our own.
Institutional Corporate Technology (ICT):
Institutional Corporate Technology (ICT) is part of Technology & Data. This group is responsible for developing enterprise applications for a diverse set of businesses including Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, and Global Capital Markets. In addition, ICT provides technology solutions for client-aligned groups and company-wide divisions, such as Finance and Operations, post-trade functions within the Institutional Securities Group and standardized data and enterprise-wide services to provide leverage to the Firm's businesses.
Job Description
The Index and Structured E-Trading Practice Area is looking for a technologist, preferably with experience in a Front-Office Sales & Trading environment to join its global team of developers. A successful candidate will have good C++ knowledge, system integration experience, balanced with development experience in other technologies such as SQL, XML/SOAP, python, etc. We are most interested in people who have thorough understanding of the flows in their area of business expertise and are eager to learn. Good communication is also critical.
Responsibilities
The role involves hands-on development in C++ with a strong focus on FIX-based order management and will offer challenging opportunities to develop business knowledge and technical skills through delivering projects across the various product lines of the Structured Products business. The goal for this group is to consolidate the largely diversified platform through a series of business focused, iterative projects. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with the colleagues around the globe while helping on the regional deliveries.
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Required Skills:
Strong technical skills preferably in a front office sales and trading environment
C++ experience but a mix of other languages such as Python would be beneficial
Experience in UNIX shell scripting and Python
SQL, XML knowledge or exposure should be value add
Strong communications skills
Self-starter
Ability to solve real world business problems and be excited about the business
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