About the Role
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 clients and 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.
Additional Information
All positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. This is a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office. Knowledge of French and English is required.
