- Salary
- $275k+
- Location
- 1 New York Plaza, United States of America
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Director
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Source
- Workday
Description
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced technology leader to lead the strategy, delivery, and evolution of a Finance data platform supporting Balance Sheet products.
This role will define the engineering vision, drive execution across multiple workstreams, and ensure a resilient, scalable, and well-governed platform. The Executive Director will partner closely with product, finance, operations, and engineering stakeholders to advance modernization, improve platform stability, and accelerate automation and AI-enabled operations.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise, strong people leadership, and domain knowledge across Balance Sheet and Finance products, including liquidity, capital, collateral, secured financing, lending, and margin or prime brokerage. This leader will build high-performing teams, drive organizational accountability, and translate strategic priorities into measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Lead strategy, architecture, and delivery of a Finance data platform with strong standards for resilience, scalability, data quality, controls, and operational excellence.
Build and lead high-performing engineering teams through hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning.
Establish governance and operating rhythms to track delivery, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
Drive prioritization, capacity planning, and execution across multiple initiatives to align resources with strategic outcomes.
Modernize platform components and optimize data pipelines to enable scalable, cloud- and API-first access patterns.
Strengthen observability, testing, documentation, and controls to improve transparency, stability, and audit readiness.
Drive adoption of AI-enabled capabilities to improve platform operations, incident response, and engineering productivity.
Partner with senior stakeholders to shape roadmaps, communicate progress, and translate business priorities into measurable outcomes.
Required Qualifications
15+ years of experience in software or data engineering, including experience leading teams, managers, or large-scale engineering functions.
Proven track record of building high-performing teams through hiring, coaching, organizational design, and performance management.
Experience leading platform modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, performance optimization, and re-architecture.
Strong delivery leadership in agile environments, with expertise in execution, risk management, and cross-functional coordination.
Domain expertise in Balance Sheet products and finance data flows, with the ability to engage effectively with finance stakeholders and governance partners.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with centralized data platforms, including data warehouse or Lakehouse architectures, batch and streaming pipelines, and lineage or metadata management.
Knowledge of cloud data platforms, API access patterns, and strong security and control practices.
Experience operating in matrixed organizations and influencing senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 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.
To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $195,000 and $275,000 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 is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.
