Full Stack Developer, Associate

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.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management Technology (MSIM-IT) strives to provide technology platform & services that help the investment management business deliver outstanding long-term investment performance, service and a comprehensive suite of investment management solutions to a diverse client base, which includes governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide.

Position Overview

MSIM-IT is looking for a back-office developer to join our client reporting IT team in Singapore. This is a great opportunity for an experienced developer to join a highly professional client facing development team, working on the Strategic MSIM Reporting platform by designing & implementing new features or tools thru new/enhanced UI components and micro services. You will be working on the full application lifecycle in a fast-paced, high-stakes agile development environment, by partnering with global IT and business stakeholders of the current platform to analyze requirements, conduct business analysis, coming up with proposed designs for review by the wider team, implement and test the solution and finally provide training and support as part of the roll-out.

The right candidate

• Has in-depth understanding of the full software development life cycle. Deep familiarity with modern software design & development concepts encompassing a range of languages & platforms.
• Can own small to medium scale strategic initiatives/projects, enhances process standards and best practices and supports L3 issues for currently live systems.
• Understands business needs and priorities, and provides thought leadership on potential solutions and the opportunities for technology to create positive impact on the business.
• Has excellent analytical and problem solving skills that are coupled with strong communication, anticipates issues and deals with them proactively.
• Is team oriented, highly collaborative, works effectively to build strong long term partnerships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization and across a variety of business and IT functions.
• Self-sufficient and shows ability to lead, given the opportunity
• Demonstrates a passion for technology innovation balanced with a pragmatic approach to developing and deploying solutions that best benefit the business.
• Nimble, adaptable, able to express ideas in meetings & design discussions, comfortable with ambiguity; course correct when circumstances change.