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Java Developer - Vice President
Morgan Stanley
Glasgow, , United Kingdom
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Description
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.
Team Profile:
The Client Money team develops and maintains IT systems that enable the Firm to comply with regulations regarding Client Money and Asset protection. This is a critical function for multiple businesses within Institutional Securities including Prime Brokerage and Listed Derivatives, and increased regulatory focus means that these systems are being constantly improved and upgraded. We have a strong, agile developer team of 23 people located in Glasgow with a presence in New York and London also. The team works on major strategic initiatives for the Firm. We demonstrate excellent collaboration amongst the team and with our clients (Operations Risk and Control, Finance Control Group) as well as with other IT groups with the Firm.
Primary Responsibilities:
We are looking for a Java developer who can take ownership for the whole end to end delivery, performing analysis, design, coding, testing, and maintenance of large-scale and distributed applications. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated team player and is likely to have significant experience in application design and development, a strong technical background and good communication skills. He/she will interact directly with the users and with other technologists across the firm when using their framework/software.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Server-side development working as part of a large Agile developer team
• Liaising with senior team members and clients to precisely specify the functionality that will be developed
• Developing functionality in an iterative fashion, writing full unit and integration tests for each function that is developed.
• Working with team members and our partners to ensure that all functionality is fully UAT tested before being released to Production
• Continuously improving the quality of our system and codebase via best practices including code reviews and refactoring where necessary
Qualifications
Skills required (essential):
• Excellent working knowledge of the following technologies: Java, Databases (Sybase preferred), Middleware (Soap/Xml/Messaging/RESTful services)
• Sound understanding of Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming, familiarity with Design Patterns
• Hands on experience with web-based and multithreaded systems
• Experience of iterative / agile development practices
• Exposure to working in a global delivery team
• Comfortable with direct interaction with the business users at all levels
Skills Desired:
• Agile development practice
• Familiarity with Spring, Linux scripting, Javascript, MQ, Autosys.
• Prior experience in investment banking preferred
The Salary of the role is competitive.
The Closing Date for applications is 23/05/17.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise 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.