Python/Data Engineering/Cloud_Vice President (Lead Software Engineer)_Parametric

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 Team

The Radius Reporting team at Parametric is a brand new and highly visible team:

• The primary goal is to develop a resilient and scalable data and reporting platform on AWS Cloud. This platform will utilize the Medallion Architecture to integrate data from diverse internal and external sources, processing, merging, milestone tracking, and certifying the data using technical and business rules. The team will also implement automated and manual workflows to support robust data governance.
• Creating a high-value platform designed to fulfill multiple needs, including generating standard client reports, and delivering data feeds to partners.
• The team will design a data lake optimized for report generation, leveraging the AWS Stack and Modern Data Stack technologies.
• The platform will require scalable and resilient Microservices to validate services and support user interfaces.
  
  

About The Role

The Lead Software Engineer (Data) will be responsible for the design and development of the firm's new Reporting Data Platform, Radius Reporting. This role demands a strong engineering background and expertise in building highly available, event-driven systems. It also involves significant collaboration and communication, potentially across multiple development teams, to centralize reporting data for the firm.

The ideal candidate excels in navigating ambiguity, transitioning quickly from exploratory work to production-ready solutions. They will provide both thought leadership and team leadership, while actively contributing to the design, development, delivery, and support of custom-built applications.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead Agile-based product development.
• Provide flexible solutions to complex business problems using our best technology practices.
• Build data pipelines from various sources to produce validated and normalized reporting data.
• Apply best in class engineering principles, optimized algorithms, and data structure techniques.
• Create unit/integration/functional tests.
• Conduct code reviews for other developers.
• Keep abreast of technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate.
• Research new cloud applications/open-source technologies and integrate them into existing projects.
• Offer technical and people leadership to other engineers.
  
  

Job Qualifications

SKILL SET

Required Experience: 10+ years.

Skill set: Python / SQL / Spark / AWS S3 / AWS Athena / AWS Glue / AWS Lambda / Delta Lake / Apache Iceberg / dbt / Great Expectations

Primary Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/computer engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of hands-on Data Engineering experience with Python
• 4+ years' experience in cloud native services development (AWS preferred)
• Experience with AWS ETL tools like Glue/Athena
• Experience with Apache Iceberg or Databricks Delta Lake
• Expertise with using SQL Databases like PostgreSQL and relational database design.
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience with agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design, coding, and testing patterns as well as experience in engineering (commercial or open source) software platforms and data infrastructures.
• Expert knowledge of data modeling and understanding of different data structures and their benefits and limitations under particular use cases
• Working experience with agile development
• Effective communication skills with business users and other developers
• Strong Analytical skills and ability to understand complex business problems quickly.
  
  

Good To Have Skills

• Experience in Financial Services Industry
• Experience with building Data Lakes, Data Mesh or Data Fabric
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience in back-end web development, specifically Micro-services Architecture/Containerization
• Experience in event-based architectures and messaging platforms like Kafka.
  
  

Parametric believes that each employee 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, but not limit the employee or the organization to just the work identified. It is our expectation that every employee will offer his/her services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our services.

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.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.