Java Developer

Java Developer

Job Number:

3164405

POSTING DATE: Jan 27, 2021 PRIMARY LOCATION: Americas-United States of America-New York-New York EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor's Degree JOB: Development EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full Time JOB LEVEL: Associate

DESCRIPTION

Company Profile
At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions and individuals, and always do so with a standard of excellence. We are a leading global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments Institutional Securities, Wealth Management (WM), and Investment Management. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

Our WM business is one of the largest in the world with more than $2 trillion in client assets, $73 billion in lending balances, and nearly 16,000 Financial Advisors in 600+ offices across the U.S. Our Financial Advisors focus on delivering timely, customized solutions and services that help clients meet their financial and life goals. Our offering includes brokerage and investment advisory services, financial and wealth planning, access to credit and lending, cash management, annuities and insurance, and retirement services.

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.

Department Profile
Global Banking Technology (GBT) is a dynamic and fast-paced area within the Firm's WM Technology Division. We are responsible for creating innovative technology solutions for the Private Banking Group (PBG), one of the strategic growth areas of the Firm, providing cash management and lending products and services to our WM clients. This includes state-of-the-art technology for a nationwide network of Private Bankers and product specialists who work with Financial Advisors to provide access to products and services such as online banking, cards, deposit products, residential mortgages, securities based loans and tailored lending. If you are an exceptional individual who is interested in solving complex problems and building sophisticated solutions in a dynamic team environment, GBT is the place for you.Position Description

• Responsible for the hands on design and development of core Java applications.
• Perform the role as Agile Squad member developer as part of a Deposits Agile Squad/Fleet.
• Analyze user requirements, envision system features and functionality.
• Interface with global team of developers and business users.
• Produce proof of concept in the new areas of development.
• Ensure high quality of deliverables while enforcing development and security best practices
• Participate in design discussions and contribute to the architecture process.
• Investigate production issues.
• Provide technical support for debugging web applications, database and assistance to production systems.
• The candidate will support continuous improvement of the automated systems. Participate in all aspects of SDLC (analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation)
• Actively contribute and participate in design and architecture discussions, daily stand-ups, and Agile Sprint planning sessions. #LI-JSR

QUALIFICATIONS

Responsibilities & Required Skills
- 3 - 5 of hands on professional experience using Core Java, Java Restful APIs, Gradle, Spring, Spring Boot, IBM Websphere MQ Series and related frameworks.

• 2+ years experience of working with geographically dispersed teams, that fall across different time zones
• Solid understanding and experience with Object-Oriented design and development
• Experience in building server-side applications using J2EE Technologies.
• Proficient with database technologies (preferably DB2), including modelling and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments.
• Experienced with JUnit, Test Driven Development (TDD) using Concordion framework, and Behavior Driven Development using Cucumber and Gherkin.
• Competency with source control (preferably Git) and Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins.
• Practiced understanding of Agile development methodologies & understanding of DevOps Integration
• The ability to write reusable, optimized, maintainable code that is well documented and follows industry-standard best practices
• Good problem solving skills
• Good communication and presentation skills: ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner, across all stakeholder groups and with staff from junior to senior levels

Desired skills

• Proficiency with Kafka, Websockets, Hazelcast, and in-memory databases.
• Knowledge of Financial markets, lending based products & Wealth Management
• Prior work experience with cloud based applications #LI-JSR