Senior Platform Engineer – Securities Lending

Morgan Stanley Asia Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley Asia Limited is seeking an experienced, hands-on lead engineer in Hong Kong to own a defined work area across Securities Lending technology and platform renovation. You will partner with Trading, Operations and Product to analyze requirements, design solutions and deliver changes from planning through production.

You will guide engineers, make architecture decisions and drive delivery with substantial autonomy, ensuring production readiness and high-quality outcomes in a complex

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on server-side development in Java or Scala.
• Strong track record of end-to-end software delivery and technical ownership of a substantial application or programme.
• Experience with distributed systems, messaging, data consistency and diagnosing complex application behaviour.
• Strong analytical skills to understand business workflows and data, and break problems into deliverable changes.
• Experience with trading, financing, lifecycle or similar transaction-processing systems and Securities Lending knowledge.
• Experience delivering changes safely into production, including automated testing and release planning.
• Evidence of guiding other engineers and coordinating delivery with global teams; people-management experience is helpful but not required.
• Clear written and spoken English to communicate requirements, options and risks to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of an assigned programme or work area, including scope, plans, dependencies and production readiness.
• Collaborate with Trading, Operations and Product to analyse workflows and define acceptance criteria.
• Design and implement services for trade capture, inventory and lifecycle processing and integrations.
• Lead renovation workstreams and coordinate migration, interface design and reconciliation with existing systems and controls.
• Make engineering decisions within architecture boundaries and guide teammates through implementation and reviews.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate delivery with global teams; where assigned, manage staff in the area.
• Maintain automated tests, secure coding, observability, releases and incident response.

Skills

Java/Scala

Distributed systems

End-to-end delivery

Leadership

SQL

Unix/Linux

English comms

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Job description

Morgan Stanley Asia Limited is seeking an experienced, hands-on lead engineer in Hong Kong to own a defined work area across Securities Lending technology and platform renovation. You will partner with Trading, Operations and Product to analyze requirements, design solutions and deliver changes from planning through production.

You will guide engineers, make architecture decisions and drive delivery with substantial autonomy, ensuring production readiness and high-quality outcomes in a complex