About this opportunity
Morgan Stanley lists this Lead Platform Engineer - Parametric opportunity in boston, Massachusetts. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan 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
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan 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
About Parametric
Parametric 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 Team
The Platform Engineering team is part of Parametric IT's Developer Experience department at Parametric and is vital to developer enablement and system reliability in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). As a team, we:
Consult and collaborate with cloud-native (AWS, Azure) and self-hosted application teams to deliver and operate reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications
Automate provisioning of non-production environment for application development and testing
Design, operate, and manage development toolchains and CI/CD pipelines to meet objectives for high velocity delivery while also meeting control requirements
Build and maintain container orchestration on Kubernetes
Provide observability via monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Sentry etc.
About The Role
The Lead Platform Engineer will partner with cloud-native application development teams with direct business alignment - empowering them to deliver quality software at high velocity, rapidly receive actionable feedback, and cultivating an environment of continuous experimentation. Additionally, the Lead Platform Engineer will create reusable components and workflows that deliver superior developer experience.
Primary Responsibilities
Function as subject matter expert in the areas of delivering and operating reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications
Serve as a technical lead for key initiatives, influencing technical strategy, driving best practices, and ensuring successful delivery of business objectives.
Mentor and develop team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, and constructive technical guidance.
Work with the development teams to design, document, create and maintain highly available systems
Partner with the application development teams to create flows, processes, automation, and tooling
Create an environment of continuous experimentation and learning
Contribute to evolution of our architecture (cloud-focused) to increase its flexibility and ease of use
Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
Share experience, knowledge, and ideas with the team to improve processes and productivity
Provide tier 2 and 3 escalations for related issues and questions
Job Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required
8+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering (i.e., DevOps, SysOps, SRE) experience with a proven track record of people and thought leadership to achieve strategic objectives
8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native solution architectures and related platform support, i.e., Cyber Security, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Observability
Serve as technical lead for strategic projects, providing architectural guidance, driving technical decisions, and ensuring alignment across teams.
Influence engineering standards, best practices, and technology direction while mentoring and developing less experienced team members.
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical solutions.
Ability to dive deep and get hands-on to contribute to platform engineering solutions
Expertise in automation strategies for cloud-native solutions (pipelines, IAC, test suites)
Proven experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
Experience implementing IAC - Terraform preferred
Experience using GitHub and engineering YAML based ci/cd pipelines
Experience implementing and operating container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
Developer enablement mindset with an ability to collaborate across technology teams
Experience with Vulnerability Management tooling (SAST and SCA scanning) integration with SDLC toolchain
Experience using Gen AI tooling for software development and testing productivity
Expertise scripting with Python, BASH, PowerShell
Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.
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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Salary range for the position: $115,000 - $225,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $115,000 and $225,000 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.
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boston, MA, 02298, US
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