Consultant Conversion - Lead Data & Analytics Engineer

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. This is a Lead Data & Analytics Engineering position at the Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for providing specialist data analysis and expertise that drive decision-making and business insights as well as crafting data pipelines, implementing data models, and optimizing data processes for improved data accuracy and accessibility, including applying machine learning and AI-based techniques.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.

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 modeling 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.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM) Technology is the global technology department responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of the technical solutions behind the products and services used by the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM) business. The department is comprised of 10 organizations: Sales, Banking & Corporate-Client Technology, Investment Products & Markets Technology, Client Reporting, Core Processing, Private and International Wealth Management Technology, Technology Integration Office, Enterprise Infrastructure & Production Management, Capital Markets Application & Data Services, Deployment Planning & Release Management, and the Chief Operating Office.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust test automation frameworks for backend applications and REST services.

• Collaborate closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to implement the firm’s vision and ensure alignment with business objectives.

• Develop program-level test plans, long-term test strategies, and roadmaps to support quality initiatives across the organization.

• Oversee and mentor a team of QA engineers, providing guidance on best practices, technical skills, and career development.

• Drive the hiring, onboarding, and ongoing performance management of QA team members.

• Manage and execute functional, integration, and regression testing for large margin business functions in the retail brokerage domain, with a focus on buying power algorithms, industry regulations, and nightly processing.

• Utilize SQL, Oracle, MySQL, and NoSQL databases (such as Cassandra, MongoDB) to validate data quality and perform backend verifications.

• Design, develop, and execute automated test scripts using tools like Postman, REST Assured, Cypress, and Ready API.

• Integrate automated testing within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Circle CI, and maintain test jobs independently.

• Maintain source code repositories and coordinate code reviews using GitLab and GitHub.

• Effectively communicate test results and quality metrics through reports such as Cucumber and Extent, ensuring stakeholders are informed of testing progress and outcomes.

• Foster an agile, collaborative environment by participating in distributed SCRUM teams and supporting agile ceremonies.

• Apply deep financial industry knowledge, particularly in equities, options, fixed income, and futures trading, to ensure that all test cases meet business and regulatory requirements.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 12+ years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in test automation or backend application testing.

• Strong domain knowledge in the Retail brokerage domain, specifically large margin business function e.g Buying power algorithms, requirements, Industry rules and regulations, nightly processing, and recon

• Be the liaisons between team and the leadership to execute on firm’s and leadership’s vision.

• 5+ years of people management experience including hiring, onboarding, coaching, mentorship, and performance management.

• Hands ion experience in creating test automation framework, creating program level test plans, and building long term test strategy and roadmap.

• Hands on experience with one or more querying languages such SQL (preferred), Oracle, MySQL and/or No SQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB etc).

• Hands on experience in testing backend REST services including writing custom functions using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Cypress, Ready API etc.

• Hands on experience of working with continues integration tools such Jenkins, Circle CI

• Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs using tools such as Jenkins. Hands on experience working with source code management tools such as GitLab, GitHub,

• Excellent verbal and written communication as cucumber report, Extent report etc.

• Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM

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 $150,000 and $210,000 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).