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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 2-3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

THE TEAM The Investment Services and Client Activities team at Parametric: - We are building financial software that that provides solution for some of the worlds most complex financial opportunities. This includes building solutions to provide customized direct index exposure while making tax sensitive asset selection to improve overall after-tax portfolio returns. - We design and build financial software responsible for the account life cycle that starts with the onboarding of accounts, managing all client activities and investment instructions, and finally managing investment accounts as scale.

ABOUT THR ROLE The Director of Fixed Income Software Engineering is responsible for providing technical leadership, project management, process development, training, support, and a technology vision for the Fixed Income Investment Team. The role will work across and within the Investment Systems and Client Activities team as well as Core Services and externally facing Digital Team. The role will work with Fixed Income investors across the Tax Advantaged Bond Strategies and the Quantitative strategies groups to identify business priorities, to design and develop technology solutions, and to improve business processes. This spans across advanced rule-based portfolio analytics, order generation, trading, compliance, client management, integration, reporting and more.

This position will report into the Managing Director of Investment Systems and work closely with the team leads across Technology Teams, Business Analysis as well as Business Partners. In this role, the candidate will develop the appropriate software strategy, striking a balance between: (1) alignment with the growth objectives of the Business; (2) higher performance and consistently high quality; and (3) cost effective application structure and use of new technologies.

A critical objective for this role is to architect and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, leveraging AWS cloud native technologies, designing and implementing micro-services and a relentless focus on performance and resilience.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES - Define and execute on vision to integrate and align Fixed Income Technology with broader Parametric Technology Platform. - Design and develop solution to move redesign applications and move from on Prem solutions to native AWS solutions. - Manage and mentor lead and principal engineers (managing other software engineers) towards defined vision. - Stakeholder management - Work with the Fixed Income Portfolio Managers and technology leads to identify business priorities and shape technology solutions - Provide technical leadership to other Software Engineers. - Design, develop, and maintain services and API to support various business needs - Leverage scalable and distributed computing principles to build the next generation of services - Ensures that software solutions remain integrated, efficient, and appropriate for a highly regulated industry. - Create unit, integration, functional and performance tests - Mentor new or less senior developers - Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity

JOB REQUIREMENTS - Strong knowledge of Fixed Income asset management domain - Master's degree in Computer Science or related area of study - 15 years of Experience working within the asset management industry and a good understanding of the Fixed Income assets. A CFA is strongly preferred but not required. - 10 years of hands-on development experience managing all aspects of technical projects with a proven track record of delivering well architected and well written software solutions. - Experience supervising and guiding software development teams and fostering an engaging, collaborative environment. - 10 Years of hands-on Java/J2EE software design and development experience. C# and React experience a plus. - Cloud native development experience: AWS is preferred, but not required - Strong aptitude for highly efficient data structures and algorithms - Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL - Working knowledge of NoSQL database engines such as Dynamo, Redis, Cassandra, or MongoDB - Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments. - Strong leadership skills including: o Vision and strategy o Influencing and consensus building o Communication o Total quality commitment o Ownership and accountability o Project management - A creative, self-confident self-motivator with a can do spirit. - Passionate, forward thinking and creative individual with high ethical standards and integrity. - Ability to collaborate and partner across a diverse team tapping the strength and unique skills of every team member. - Assertiveness balanced with a sensitivity toward and concern for people. The ability to create strong work ethics and committed teams, foster open dialogue, and promote individual and team success. - Effective communication skills with business users and other developers

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.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $140,000 and $300,000 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).

Job: *Development

Title: Director, Software Engineering (Fixed Income Systems) - Parametric

Location: New York-New York

Requisition ID: 3256882