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Java Developer - Platform Engineering - Vice President
🏢 Morgan Stanley
📍 London, England
💼 Company - Public
Currency:
£72,600 - £87,450
£6,050 - £7,288 / mo
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Transatlantic Cost of Living & Purchasing Power Benchmark
Location Base
London, England
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
Single tax filer baseline
Transatlantic Parity
1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
Direct corporate benchmark
Position Overview & Specifications
Java Developer - Platform Engineering - Vice President
Job Number:
3230415
POSTING DATE: Jan 26, 2023
PRIMARY LOCATION: Europe, Middle East, Africa-United Kingdom-United Kingdom-London
EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor's Degree
JOB: Development
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full Time
JOB LEVEL: Vice President
DESCRIPTION
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management 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. We 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
Java Platform Engineering, a team of developers responsible for many aspects of Java development across the entire firm, enabling thousands of Java developers.
Our work includes:
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management 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. We 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
Java Platform Engineering, a team of developers responsible for many aspects of Java development across the entire firm, enabling thousands of Java developers.
Our work includes:
Setting the strategic direction for Java developers in various functional areas such as authentication, application packaging, service discovery etc.
Supporting all Java developers of the firm in their cloud migration journey
Evaluating new software for usability within the firm, writing up examples, demos, blueprints etc.
Maintaining good relationships with software vendors large and small
Developing, maintaining and supporting firm-specific Java libraries
What will you be doing?
The Java Platform Engineering team is part of Enterprise Application Infrastructure (EAI), a broader organisation also responsible for other platforms such as C++, .NET, Python and JavaScript. While the Java Platform Engineering team's essential focus is on Java, we collaborate with other EAI teams on numerous language agnostic design aspects and cross-cutting concerns such as application security, networking protocols and general design principles.
The Java Platform Engineering team is part of Enterprise Application Infrastructure (EAI), a broader organisation also responsible for other platforms such as C++, .NET, Python and JavaScript. While the Java Platform Engineering team's essential focus is on Java, we collaborate with other EAI teams on numerous language agnostic design aspects and cross-cutting concerns such as application security, networking protocols and general design principles.
Being a part of a small, highly skilled, global team of Java developers
Setting the technical direction for Java within the firm
Collaborating with firm developers to define best practice for adoption of new technologies
Contributing towards open source and proprietary libraries
Gaining relevant experience with Cloud architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps) to drive modernisation efforts of libraries, frameworks and application design
Negotiable remote work arrangements with a wide range of eventual flexibility
QUALIFICATIONS
What we're looking for:
A natural inclination to dig beneath the surface to understand how things work, why they are a certain way and what the design trade-offs are
Deep knowledge of the core Java language and JVM internals (concurrent programming, generics, memory management, garbage collection, classloading, modules, etc.)
Knowledge about object oriented and functional programming principles
Experience with Maven or Gradle
Experience using Linux and scripting on a basic level for server applications (note that desktop development is primarily on Windows for now)
Strong communication skills, verbal and written
Spring, Spring Boot, including knowledge of internals
Common Java open source libraries like Guava, Netty, Jetty, Hibernate, H2, Hikari, Junit, Mockito
Contract-based development: OpenAPI, GPB
Cloud deployment related technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
API gateways such as Spring Cloud Gateway
Reactive programming principles and techniques
Performance and benchmarking tools such as JFR, JMH
Experience and knowledge wider than Java with debugging, integration and with non-pure Java tasks: C++, Python, Bash, Kotli
Flexible work statement:
Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more.
Equal opportunities statement:
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.
Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more.
Equal opportunities statement:
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.
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Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
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