WM Architecture – Tech Product Owner, Vice President

Morgan Stanley; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in Alpharetta, GA seeks a Lead Technical Product Owner to define product vision, prioritize features and ensure delivery of high-quality technical solutions across WM Architecture programs.

You will lead architecture governance, policy controls, and data-driven modernization, guiding cross-functional teams while leveraging AI tools to standardize best practices and enable reliable production releases.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering IT projects and governing programs.
• Experience developing and managing architecture governance processes.
• Strong communication with senior leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise architecture governance planning and execution.
• Track governance reviews, next steps, and ownership of action plans.
• Provide reporting on architecture controls and compliance to leaders and regulators.
• Collaborate with policy control teams to improve architecture governance.
• Partner with engineering and product leads to drive strategic program objectives.
• Lead roadmaps, releases, backlogs, and ensure timely completion.
• Identify risks and resolve key conflicts, adapting as needed.
• Foster a collaborative environment with transparency and continuous learning.
• Coach others in modern planning and execution practices.

Skills

IT project delivery

Program Governance

Architecture governance

Stakeholder management

Agile coaching

Scrum

Kanban

Policy controls

Delivery focus

Job description

What you’ll do in the role:

This is a Lead Technical Product Owner position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for defining the product vision, prioritizing features, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality technical solutions. This role requires a seasoned technical product owner, who can help us deliver on Technology Architecture program governance and long-term quality and release vision for WM Architecture programs. You will be responsible for architecture policy uplift across internal tech program teams, to enable high quality software release in production environments. This position requires the ability to have a strong focus on policy controls & enforcement, build transparency around controls reporting and communicate effectively across geographically diverse teams. You will also lead a team of engineers to deliver IT systems that enable effective data driven governance and modernization accelerator frameworks, used by engineering teams across WM. Your team will drive best practices and leverage AI tools, to deliver application frameworks, that enforce organic adoption & standardization of best practices and standards recommended by WM Architecture

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Having a mindset for continuous process improvement is critical, as we will expect the Program Manager to improve our current processes.
• Overall experience between 15-20 years. Depth of skills should be proportional to experience.
• Hands-on experience with IT project delivery and Program Governance
• Well-developed business and requirements analysis skills, including good communication abilities (both speaking and listening) and stakeholder management (senior CXO leadership levels).
• Experience of developing and managing architecture governance processes.
• Demonstrated project planning and management skills, leading large cross-functional projects from definition to launch
• Agile coaching and practitioner experience (Scrum, Kanban) with multiple teams
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing and alternating priorities with a constant focus on delivery
• Proven ability to balance business demands and IT fulfilment in terms of standardization, reducing risk and increasing IT flexibility.
• Background in an enterprise role in business, operations / change management, compliance reporting and ability to influence strategic decision-makers and functional stakeholders.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Support WM Enterprise architecture team with planning and execution of the architecture governance function.
• Track governance reviews, next steps and drive accountability with action plan owners.
• Provide reporting to senior leadership and regulators on compliance to Architecture control function, highlight Open risks.
• Collaborate with Enterprise architecture policy control and governance teams. Provide divisional inputs on improving architecture controls, policy rationalization and building on synergies across other divisions in the firm.
• Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives. Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success.
• Drive teams and individuals in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, work backlogs and track tasks to target completion.
• Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths
• Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver
• Provide reporting as necessary on project status, risks, issues and mitigation plans. Create a collaborative work environment that fosters shared understanding, transparency, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning.
• Coach and mentor others in the best practices of modern planning and execution

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. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work. Please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.