We are looking for a passionate Enterprise Architect to drive strategic architecture vision and alignment across key stakeholders; and define and govern architecture standards, principles, best practices, and patterns for firmwide adoption. The candidate will join a lean diverse global Enterprise Architecture team committed to fostering a culture where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences can thrive.

The ideal candidate brings knowledge of Agile, Cloud, DevOps principles and values; experiences in collaboration across complex organizations, removing impediments, and ensuring team progress towards their missions and deliverables. Candidate must possess strong leadership and interpersonal skills, and be able to resolve issues and interdependencies across organizations.

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Technology Leadership & Strategy position at the Executive Director level, which is part of the job family responsible for driving innovation, developing technology roadmaps, and providing vision and strategic direction to align technology initiatives with long-term business objectives, fostering a culture of excellence, growth and transformation across the organization.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers and manages essential and innovative technology infrastructure solutions to all global businesses and locations. ETS is responsible the architecture, engineering and operation of all core infrastructure and end user technologies as well as the Firm's Enterprise Architecture, shared application infrastructure, HR Tech, Technology Modernization and DevOps capabilities.

Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture takes a lead role in revolutionizing the landscape of systems across the enterprise to drive business success and growth. The Enterprise Architecture team's focus is on high-level strategy, building an architectural discipline and driving adoption of best practice, accelerating delivery, and enabling modernization, e.g., by use of patterns and golden paths, and building out consistent architectural governance.

As the group expands and matures, we continue to add top technical talent, experienced professionals driven by the pursuit of engineering excellence, diverse teammates who foster creativity and innovation, who are looking for complex and challenging technology roles with impact, visibility, and unparalleled opportunities to work across Technology in multi-disciplinary collaboration with high performing teams, including our Distinguished Engineers.

What you'll do in the role:

• Leading key architectural projects of firm-wide significance.

• Driving the Enterprise and cross-Domain Architecture vision and strategy.

• Engaging with senior stakeholders locally in New York and more broadly.

• Driving the long-term evolution of the IT estate in support of the high-level business strategy.

• Governance and oversight of architecture activities.

• Championing the adoption of architecture practices.

• Architecture thought leadership.

• Fostering Architecture community across the Firm and Divisions.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect in large technology organizations.

• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Architecture models such as TOGAF.

• Strategic thinker; able to structure and deliver on complex multi-year programmes.

• Experience working and influencing the designs of senior architects and senior technology leaders.

• Experience with large-scale architecture transformation projects, e.g. integration of acquisitions, Cloud migration, geographic migrations, modernization initiatives.

• Hands-on experience architecting technology solutions.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

• Experience working with teams across different time-zones and countries.

• Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.

• Experience with cybersecurity, resilience and/or GenAI desirable.

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields from an accredited university.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $190,000 and $240,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).