Application development team management : job level - executive director

We’re seeking someone to join our team as an Executive Director to lead the strategy, adoption, and delivery of a cloud-native platform-as-a-service ecosystem that enhances resiliency, observability, scalability, and operational excellence across critical electronic trading and post-trade platforms.

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 an Executive Director position within the Application Development Team Management which is part of the job family responsible for leading application development teams, defining technology strategy, overseeing software delivery, and ensuring the design, development, implementation, and support of business-critical technology solutions.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:

• Lead the Polaris platform strategy supporting low-latency trading, post-trade processing, and real-time risk platforms.
• Define and implement cloud-native architecture standards with application, infrastructure, and platform teams.
• Drive adoption of Kubernetes platforms, observability solutions, and standardized integration patterns.
• Review architectures to identify technology drift, operational risks, and compliance gaps.
• Design end-to-end testing and validation strategies aligned with trading workflows and business processes.
• Champion automation and Agentic AI capabilities to improve onboarding, deployment, and platform operations.
• Resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, observability, messaging, authentication, and applications.
• Provide technical leadership while driving scalability, resiliency, capacity planning, and platform modernization initiatives.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Extensive experience leading application and platform delivery teams in enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and multi-tenant platform design.
• Experience working across development, infrastructure, and production support teams.
• Proven leadership of DevOps and Python engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TLS, certificates, and infrastructure technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions.
• Excellent troubleshooting, stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills.

Regional Disclosures

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

All our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.

Knowledge of French and English is required.

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.

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