Middle Office Data Engineering and Quality_Vice President_Product Support & Services IM

131 Morgan Stanley Advantage Svcs; India; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 11,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in India seeks a strategic, data-driven Vice President to lead the Middle Office Data Engineering and Quality function, ensuring data accuracy and readiness across IBOR/ABOR datasets. You will/lead a DEQ team, implement robust data quality controls, and partner with Operations, Technology and Data Office to elevate data governance.

With 10+ years in data and investments, you will apply Python, SQL, and cloud tools to deliver scalable data validation, dashboards, and AI-enabled

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Investment Operations, Data Management, or Middle Office data and analytics.
• Strong understanding of data quality principles: accuracy, completeness, timeliness.
• Experience with data quality forums and dashboards.
• Experience in investment management across multiple asset classes.
• Familiarity with reference data, portfolio data, and transactional data quality.
• Proven ability to lead data quality initiatives and drive process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own data quality framework for Reference Data and Core Transaction Processing Data.
• Lead DEQ team with strong people management skills.
• Develop, maintain, and operationalize data quality controls on datasets.
• Maintain data validation and exception monitoring processes.
• Triage data exceptions and enable scalable issue resolution.
• Provide leadership for complex data sets powering performance and regulatory reporting.
• Deliver KPI dashboards and trend analyses to senior stakeholders.
• Identify AI solutions for process transformation and data insights.

Skills

Data quality

Data governance

Python

SQL

ETL

Leadership

Cloud

Databricks

LLMs

Workflow automation

AI in data

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Alteryx

Power BI

Informatica

Pandas

Python libraries

Job description

We are seeking a strategic, data-driven Middle Office Data Engineering and Quality - Vice President to lead the build and evolve a best-in-class Data Engineering and Quality (DEQ) function in India. This role sits within the Public Markets Middle Office and is pivotal to ensuring data accuracy, transparency, and operational readiness across the firm's books and records in support of MSIM clients, investment teams and traders, and other essential uses of this data. The successful candidate will be an innovative data science professional, who will develop quality control checks and insights to mitigate data quality issues, identify anomalies in data for research, and continuously improve upon the process to expand across a complex data set. This position will partner closely with the different Operations, Business, Technology and Data Office teams to establish and evolve the data quality framework and controls to enable timely and quality portfolios investment/performance books and records (IBOR/ABOR) for data consumers. In the Operations division, we partner with business units across the Firm to support financial transactions, devise and implement effective controls and develop client relationships. This is a Advance Specialist position at Vice President level within the within Product Support & Services IM, which is responsible for providing transaction support and managing post execution processes. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:

• Own data quality framework for Reference Data and Core Transaction Processing Data ensuring accurate and timely capture of portfolio level accounting data across key data sets.
• Strong people management skills to ensure smooth functioning of the DEQ team
• Develop, maintain, and operationalize data quality controls on portfolio transaction, holding, and valuation datasets.
• Maintain robust data validation and exception monitoring processes to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of portfolio accounting data.
• Support research and triage of data exceptions, enabling scalable issue identification, mitigation and/or resolution, and escalation.
• Provide high-touch leadership and accountability of complex and sensitive data sets, including those powering performance, reporting, and regulatory processes.
• Ensure proactive, high-quality outcomes for clients and investment teams, and other data consumers of MSIM's books and records.
• Build and implement data-driven platforms, dashboards, and automated controls.
• Identify & propose AI solutions for process transformation & data insights for more precise business decision making & optimization
• Maintain supervisory oversight on team activities, risk, department and firm initiatives
• Deliver and manage KPI dashboards, trend analysis, and exception reporting to senior stakeholders and data governance forums.

What you bring to the role:

• 10+ years of experience in Investment Operations, Data Management, or Middle Office data and analytics at a global asset manager or financial services firm.
• A strong understanding of data quality principles, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness.
• Experienced in establishing Data quality forums with key stakeholders & built reporting dashboards.
• Proficient in data validation, data cleansing, and data governance.
• Experience in investment management across pooled vehicles, SMAs, and institutional mandates.
• Demonstrated understanding of investment and trade lifecycle, with focus on portfolio tax lot level recordkeeping inputs (reference data, marker trades, prices, corporate actions, accruals, amortization, etc.).
• Familiarity with a full range of financial products, including public and private instruments, and asset classes (e.g., equity, fixed, derivatives, loans).
• AI savvy and experienced with leading process improvements and transformation.
• Change management experienced.
• Experienced in leveraging python & LLM libraries for faster adoption process automation concepts, experienced in leveraging API for data transfers, experienced in NLP / OCR solution implementation.
• Alteryx workflow experience for data conversion and data / rule optimization & conversion.
• Experienced in cloud strategy especially from data use and transfer perspective.
• Databricks AI module experience will be value add
• Lead & supported solutions which involved, client & trade lifecycle automation involving AI solutions
• Demonstrated leading / supporting key change the bank initiatives and ability to articulate current and target operating models by leveraging tools and technologies
• Experience with data quality tools, dashboards, APIs to support real-time data validation and exception handling.
• Strong technology (pro dev and low code) experience, with a track record of developing data-driven platforms, dashboards, and automated controls
• Strong analysis and analytical skills to perform root cause analysis, data lineage, exception handling, and process optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesis data for MI reporting on key performance indicators and other portfolio accounting data as inputs into middle office data health and identifying areas for operational optimization.
• Experience with Data Quality platforms (e.g. Pan DQ, Informatica, PEGA Exception Management) & Business Intelligence Tools (e.g. Alteryx, PowerBI, etc) Experienced to lead & run with multiple workstreams associated to Data quality which involves multiple senior stakeholders spread across operations, technology & Data functions.
• To be able to drive Data quality process and outcomes.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.

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