Morgan Stanley
Executive Director - Sr. Technical Lead - Electronic Trading Platform
$195K–$275K
New York, New York · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years building trading, risk, pricing, order-management, or market-data systems.
About the job
Leads the design, development, delivery, and production support of high-performance electronic trading systems, partnering with front-office stakeholders and guiding engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end delivery of trading systems, from architecture through production support.
- Partner with trading, sales, product, and technology stakeholders to align priorities, manage trade-offs, and surface risks.
- Lead developers and set technical direction and engineering standards; remain hands-on in architecture, development, code review, and troubleshooting.
What they ask for
- 12+ years building trading, risk, pricing, order-management, or market-data systems.
- Strong knowledge of financial markets and instruments across equities, derivatives, FX, rates, commodities, or cross-asset products.
- Proven technical leadership and hands-on experience with distributed, high-performance, or low-latency systems and production operations.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools with appropriate validation, security, and controls.
Pay
$195,000 and $275,000 per year (base pay; USD)
AI focus
Use AI-assisted engineering and development tools responsibly, with validation, security, and controls, to improve productivity, quality, and delivery efficiency.
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