Principal Software Engineer - Parametric

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ABOUT MORGAN STANLEYMorgan 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 PARAMETRICParametric 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 THE TEAMThe Equity Investments and Client Activities team at Parametric: • We are building financial software that that solves some of the world's most complex financial opportunities. This includes building solutions to provide customized direct index exposure while making tax-sensitive asset allocation decisions 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 through the management of client activities and investment instructions. • We are focused on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions that are cloud-native. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for individuals that have a strong curiosity and passion for learning new things, while continuously challenging oneself to build things better and more scalable.  The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership, project management, process development, training and support. The role will work across and within the Equity Investments and Client Activities team as well as Core Services and externally facing Digital Team.  This role will enhance the Direct Indexing business priorities, to design and develop technology solutions, and to improve business processes. This role spans across many services within the team building out underlying components that will provide critical services to the Equity Portfolio Management Platform.  These services will help streamline the rule-based portfolio analytics, order generation and straight through processing allow for exception driven portfolio management. This position will report into the Equity and Activity Services team and work closely with team leads across Technology teams, Business Analysis as well as Business Partners.  In this role, you will lead developers and projects and provide mentoring opportunities to the development team.  A critical objective for this role is to support the architecture 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 • Design and develop proprietary solutions for the Equity Direct Indexing portfolio management teams • 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/performance tests • Mentor new or less senior developers • Conduct code reviews of other developers • Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity JOB QUALIFICATIONS SKILL SET Required Experience: 12+ years Skill set: Software design / Dev/ Java / J2EE / relational database Primary Skills • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area of study • 12+ 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. • Strong Java and Spring Boot experience • Experience with microservices and distributed systems • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skillsStrong aptitude for highly efficient data structures and algorithms • Cloud native development experience a plus: AWS is preferred • Exposure to event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka) • Working knowledge of SQL , RDBMS ,NoSQL database engines such as Redis, Cassandra, or MongoDB • Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and applications • Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments.• Vision and strategy • Influencing and consensus building • Communication • Total quality commitment • Ownership and accountability • 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