Your Opportunity as a Technologist in Technology

An overview of this program’s objectives and how you can benefit

The Analyst Program is designed to develop highly skilled and motivated technologists who partner with our businesses to solve complex problems through the use of Technology.  Candidates are recruited throughout the region for specific offices. Upon completion of the interview process, each candidate will be placed with the group that best matches their skills sets and interests. 

Training
How the program works and the day-to-day experience you can expect

The curriculum includes orientation to the Firm, intensive technology training, instruction on proprietary technologies and financial products overviews.  Throughout the program, Analysts will have the opportunity to build a strong network amongst their peers and the broad and comprehensive skills acquired during the program will fully prepare Analysts for their full-time role.

Launching Your Career
The initial training that you receive on starting the program

Candidates have an opportunity to be considered for our development and infrastructure teams based on their academic experience/background and skills sets demonstrated during the interview process.

Development Teams

Our development teams are tasked with designing, developing and maintaining applications used by our business units. Daily activities include meeting with clients to gather and analyze requirements; making system design decisions; evaluating, integrating and developing necessary software; and testing and deploying applications to production. Developing high performing low latency electronic trading systems across multiple asset classes, providing sophisticated risk management analytics and systems, and evolving complex workflows and life-cycle management capabilities across increasingly sophisticated products are just some of the many projects available for developers within our technical organizations.

Infrastructure Teams

Our infrastructure facing teams are tasked with developing systems to run our business. Our engineers provide tools, applications and platforms such as the Firm's networks, computing hardware, operating systems, and databases for the Firm's trading applications, communication applications and other end user applications. As a large and global environment, these teams are tasked with providing applications that span the breadth of the Firm in an efficient manner. Engineering the Firm's websites, managing the Windows plant, and developing a client reporting delivery system are some of the projects available for infrastructure engineers in our organizations.

In Asia, we offer development and infrastructure engineering roles within the following organizations.

Sales & Trading Technology or Innovative Data, Environments, Analytics & Systems (IDEAS), is an integrated quantitative and technology organization formed to create a sustainable, commercial advantage for Morgan Stanley by reshaping the Firm's businesses around innovative people, processes and systems.  IDEAS includes revenue-generating, business unit-embedded desk strategist teams, market modeling teams, and platform and technology teams each with a broad range of expertise across those data sources, models, applications, systems and technologies used by the Firm's sales and trading, banking and investment management businesses.

Corporate Technology designs and develops systems, integrates applications, and provides other technology services to enterprise-wide divisions such as Finance, Corporate Services, Human Resources, Legal & Compliance, and Firm Risk Management. 

• Finance: provide innovative solutions for regulatory and financial reporting, general ledger, profit & loss calculations, securities bookkeeping, budgeting, planning & forecasting, and tax filing.  The group leverages a state-of-the-art multi-terabyte financial data warehouse as one of its main assets to service the firm's Finance Division.
• Human Resources and Corporate Services: leverage both in-house developed software solutions and third party packages in support of the firm's compensation, benefits, payroll, performance management, business administration, spend management, real estate, space management, project management, travel, corporate security functions and many others.
• Legal & Compliance: provide technology solutions in support of the identification and oversight of the Firm's legal, compliance and related franchise risks, including key functions such as anti-money laundering, email surveillance, employee registration, outside business interests, employee trading, regulatory disclosures and trade surveillance.
• Firm Risk Management: provide an integrated platform called RiskVision for the Market and Credit Risk Departments that supports measuring, analyzing and reporting the risk profile of the Firm. RiskVision provides value-at-risk and regulatory capital calculators, a stress testing framework and tools for exposure aggregation, reporting and data analysis.

Investment Management develops and provides systems that support the front, middle and back office processing for the global Investment Management business.  Systems that support these processes include trading systems, risk, compliance, portfolio accounting, sales and marketing, and straight through processing.

Enterprise Infrastructure is the technology group responsible for the production operations and engineering for the essential technology used globally across the Firm. It covers data centers, voice and data networking, wireless technologies, server and database operations, support for 50,000+ desktops and laptops, and tens of thousands of distributed servers and multiple mainframes. Responsibilities include maintaining extremely high standards of availability, and managing the security and contingency planning for the environment. EI provides shared services to all lines of business across Morgan Stanley, is heavily involved in corporate acquisitions and joint ventures to ensure consistency of the technology platform for the business, and supports the safe and efficient operation of the combined technology infrastructure.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's Information Technology division is responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of the technical solutions behind over 30 MSSB products and services. These technical solutions are used by employees (business unit managers, operations staff and more than 18,000 financial advisors) as well as clients (more than 2 million individual investors, small and midsize businesses). Our employees have deployed a technical infrastructure that connects more than 1,000 domestic retail locations, support a series of public internet sites, and internally built one of the industry's leading financial advisor workstations. We work with large scale databases such as DB2 and SQL Server, proprietary and non-proprietary messaging software, a broad variety of vendor products, numerous financial exchanges and regulatory entities, and programming languages ranging from .Net and Java to Cobol and VB.Net. MSSB IT is a trusted consultant to each business unit as it strives to offer tailored solutions to individual investors worldwide. (Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Information Technology has positions available in Mumbai, India)

Developing Your Career
What you can anticipate as you make progress and after completing the program

The Firm offers plenty of ongoing training opportunities to develop your technical and professional skills while an enormous breadth of roles provides great potential for a diverse career.

Is Technology Right for You?
A checklist to help you decide if you have the skills and temperament for this area

• You have an interest and aptitude for technology
• You have experience in at least one programming language (for developer roles)
• You have experience in operating systems, computing hardware, and related technology (for engineering roles)
• You have excellent problem-solving skills
• You can adapt to a dynamic and multifaceted environment where business and technical skills are intermingled
• You have an outstanding academic record along with success in summer jobs, internships, and extracurricular activities
• You have strong communication skills and the ability to work and interact with others.

Requirements

Bachelor's, Master's or Doctorate degree (Shanghai only) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and related technical majors. Fluency in written and spoken English – CET (College English Test) 6 or equivalent is required. All majors are encouraged to apply.

Selection Process

Selected applicants will be invited to take a written test assessing their analytical ability. Candidates who successfully meet our scoring criteria will undergo a first round phone interview. Selected applicants will be invited to interview at our offices for the final round of interviews. 

How to Apply

Please visit our website at: http://www.morganstanley.com/about/careers/recruiting/apply.html

Deadlines

The deadline for applying to the Full-Time Analyst Program is October 11, 2009.