Senior Technical Lead, High-Performance Trading

Morgan-Stanley; Town of Islip (NY); On-site; USD 195,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Senior Technical Lead in New York to own end-to-end design, development and delivery of high-performance trading systems across asset classes. You will partner with traders, product teams and risk/compliance, mentoring engineers and driving Agile delivery in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires 12+ years in trading-related technologies, strong leadership, and hands-on experience with low-latency architectures.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building trading, risk, pricing, order-management, or market-data systems.
• Strong knowledge of financial markets & instruments across equities, derivatives, FX, rates, commodities, or cross-asset products.
• Proven technical leadership in architecture, engineering standards, mentoring, and delivery.
• Hands-on experience with distributed, high-performance, or low-latency systems and production operations.
• Ability to communicate with senior non-technical stakeholders and balance urgency, resilience, and maintainability.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools with appropriate validation, security, and controls.
• Strong judgment and systematic problem solving in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of business-critical trading systems, translating requirements into scalable solutions from architecture through production support.
• Act as the primary technical partner to traders, desk heads, product partners, and technology teams, aligning priorities, surfacing risks, and managing trade-offs.
• Lead and mentor developers, setting technical direction, engineering standards, and a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Drive Agile delivery and partner with risk, compliance, infrastructure, and support teams to ensure production stability and appropriate controls.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to improve productivity, quality, and delivery efficiency.
• Remain hands-on in architecture, development, code review, and troubleshooting for high-performance trading systems.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture

Distributed systems

Low-latency

AI tools

Stakeholder comms

Problem solving

Mentoring

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Senior Technical Lead in New York to own end-to-end design, development and delivery of high-performance trading systems across asset classes. You will partner with traders, product teams and risk/compliance, mentoring engineers and driving Agile delivery in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires 12+ years in trading-related technologies, strong leadership, and hands-on experience with low-latency architectures.