Senior Java Lead Engineer — Cloud-Native & GenAI-Driven

Morgan Stanley; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Java Lead Engineer at VP level to guide design, development and delivery of a Java-based platform. You will lead cross-functional teams across Java,Angular, databases and cloud-enabled services, ensuring robust design, scalability and performance.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, architectural discipline, and collaboration with offshore QA and infrastructure teams to meet business needs and delivery timelines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on Java EE and core Java experience with strong leadership qualities.
• Experience with web service development, REST, Kafka and Services Oriented Architecture.
• Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Design patterns, Architecture and Application Integration.
• Working knowledge of Databases including Design, SQL proficiency.
• GenAI Agentic tool or any other Gen AI tooling awareness/experience.
• Strong experience with frameworks used for development and automated testing like Spring, Junit, BDD etc.
• Experience with Unix/Linux.
• Ability to coordinate with multiple groups, both internal and external to the firm, including offshore development and QA teams, internal infrastructure groups, vendors, and support teams.
• Strong development skills with ability to understand technical design and translate the same into workable solution.
• Familiarity with working in a large team.
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and work on the same to meet business requirements.
• A background that includes strong problem solving such as system integration, infrastructure debugging, or system administration.
• At least 6 years’ relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Java based application.
• Required to be a technologist with solid command on distributed development tools and tech-stack - primarily Java and Java based web-development, angular, databases, frameworks for enterprise system development, enterprise integration patterns, cloud focused architecture and tools.
• Owning the complete development on new platform as per established best practices, adhering to standards setup by the group and with diligent focus on Gen AI adoption for the platform, Usability, Cloud Adoption and User Experience.
• You will be involved with every facet of software development, from requirement analysis, design and development to helping the team continuously improve its agile development practices

Skills

Java EE

Core Java

Web services

REST

Kafka

SOA

OOP design

Design patterns

Architecture

Database design

SQL

GenAI tooling

Spring framework

JUnit

BDD

Unix/Linux

Cloud tooling

Agile

Tools

Angular

AWS/Azure

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Java Lead Engineer at VP level to guide design, development and delivery of a Java-based platform. You will lead cross-functional teams across Java,Angular, databases and cloud-enabled services, ensuring robust design, scalability and performance.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, architectural discipline, and collaboration with offshore QA and infrastructure teams to meet business needs and delivery timelines.