Product Owner & Lead Engineer – Data Virtualization Platforms - Vice President

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 a Principal Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering I position at Vice President, which is part of the job family responsible for managing and optimizing technical infrastructure and ensuring the seamless operation of IT systems to support business needs effectively.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.

This role covers both the deployments as well as the issues, incidents, change record executions, configuration updates and deployment patches related to change management and incident management

What you’ll do in the role:

• We are seeking a senior technologist to provide product ownership and platform engineering leadership for the Firm's enterprise Data Virtualization platforms, along with related AI/analytics and test data management platforms.
• The successful candidate will own the strategy, architecture, engineering, and operation of these platforms, and will lead the modernization of the Firm's data virtualization capability, including migration to a next-generation platform and expanding governed, self-service access to data across the Firm.
• Responsibilities include platform security, resilience, automation, and observability; onboarding and enabling application teams; managing vendor relationships and product roadmaps; and partnering with Engineering, Operations, Security, Risk, and business stakeholders.
• The role balances production stability with delivery of strategic roadmap initiatives, and includes mentoring engineers and establishing engineering best practices.
• The ideal candidate is a strong infrastructure engineer and hands-on technical leader with experience owning enterprise data platforms, a pragmatic engineering mindset, and the ability to drive adoption and influence across a large organization Required Experience: 10+ years

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, including experience as a product owner or technical lead for enterprise data platforms
• Hands-on experience with data virtualization or data federation platforms (e.g., Denodo, TIBCO Data Virtualization, or similar)
• Strong core infrastructure fundamentals (Linux, networking, high availability, authentication/authorization, APIs
• Proficiency in Python and Unix shell scripting, with experience building automation and self-service tooling