Python Developer - Software Engineer - Parametric

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 www.morganstanley.com.

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.

About The Team

The Equity Investments and Client Activities team at Parametric:

• We are building financial software that solves some of the world's most complex financial opportunities. This includes building solutions to provide customized direct index exposure while making tax sensitive asset selection to improve overall after-tax portfolio returns.
• We design and build financial software responsible for the account life cycle that starts with the onboarding of accounts, managing all client activities and investment instructions, and finally managing equity investment accounts as scale.

About The Role

We are looking for individuals that have a strong curiosity and passion for learning new things, while continuously challenging oneself to build things better and more scalable.

The Software Engineer on the Equity Investments and Client Activities team is a hands-on contributor who plays a critical role in building tools to support portfolio management and culture of data-driven enhancements to our process.

Primary Responsibilities

• Understand existing legacy data flow process for multiple systems, then leverage that knowledge to propose, develop and implement an optimized data flow pipeline using Python.
• Using in-flight and existing data sets / data lake, develop required transformational & curated data sets which can be used for more than one data pipeline.
• Infuse creativity in creating and reducing manual ways of data reconciliation by developing reconciliation ETL model.
• Increase efficiencies and reduce manual processes by developing an ETL model for data reconciliation.
• Think outside the box to design and develop complex dashboards.
• Create quick reporting dashboards in Tableau/ Power BI for senior leaders in Operations.
• Replace manual reporting process in Excel and use available data sets to enrich existing reports.
• Identify different techniques available for data enrichments.
• Leverage a deep understanding of operations data in all aspects of work.

Job Qualifications

SKILL SET

Required Experience: 4+ years

Skill set: Data Analyst / Software Development / Big Data / Python / SQL / JavaScript / REST / Docker / OAuth

Primary Skills

• Bachelor's Degree (4 year degree) in Computer Science/Engineering, or similar required
• 4+ years of software development experience as an individual contributor; with no less than 2 years' experience as a data analyst
• Must have developed big data transformation data set from multiple sources having unorganized, internal, external and reference data sets using Alteryx.
• Experience in building reusable data transformation pipeline using Alteryx or Python
• Hands-on experience in data enriching using Python.
• Must have developed complex and efficient Tableau dashboards with minimum load time.
• Understanding of big data ecosystem is required.
• Methodology & Technology - Python, Alteryx, Tableau/Power BI, ETL, Kafka and JavaScript
• Experience with RESTful APIs and web service integration.
• Cloud native development experience a plus: AWS is preferred, but not required.
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
• Web development experience is a plus but not required.
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git).

Good To Have Skills

• Financial industry experience, especially in top tier financial GCC
• Should be able to challenge BAU.
• Logical in approach and successful in a startup environment
• Front office operations experience is strongly preferred.
• Ability to understand business requirements and convert that into technological implementations.
• Quick learner, helpful, dependable & innovative.

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

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 85 years. At our foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide our more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find trusted colleagues, committed mentors and a culture that values diverse perspectives, individual intellect and cross-collaboration. 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.

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

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.