_About the Firm_

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in 42 countries, the firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visitwww.morganstanley.com.

_About the Role_

The Exchange/Market Data Connectivity Infrastructure Support team implements and maintains Exchange/Regulatory/Market Data /Clearing/Settlement vendor related systems, applications and connectivity that come into the firm. The focus is on maintaining highly available systems that can process front to back trading flows that meet both business and regulatory requirement.

The engineer will be responsible for the operational needs of the systems managed by the teams. This is a demanding role requiring attention to detail, good organization skills, strong communication skills, and a self-motivated team player, with a proven history of project delivery and driving initiatives. The ability to collaborate and communicate with development teams in English and external vendors in Japanese is essential. The engineer will be responsible for providing a global infrastructure strategy that can seamlessly support specific business technology requirements, while mitigating risks and maintaining service availability.

_Key Responsibilities_

_Support/Engineering Functions_

• Perform day-to-day operational management of Exchange/Regulatory/Market Data/Clearing/Settlement vendor related systems infrastructure including systems administration, performance monitoring and problem resolution activities.
• Perform software installation, upgrades, decommission, in accordance with Morgan Stanley's Change Control Procedures.
• Manage or participate in the implementation and rollout of new services and products.
• Develop and maintain shell/Perl scripts for ready-for-business system health check
• Perform Level 2/3 support activities using Morgan Stanley's designated tools, processes and procedures for incident, problem, and change management.
• Receive L1 escalations and resolve promptly
• Perform preventative maintenance functions including monitoring of logs, alarms, system performance, and capacity
• Complete regression testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as and when required by development teams
• Manage third party applications and technologies liaising with suppliers or vendors as appropriate.
• Undertake tasks to enhance market data systems' capacity, performance and stability

_Client/Vendor/Supplier Management_

• Interact with internal clients or vendor as needed to perform support activities (problem management and project work)
• Attend periodic and ad-hoc client and vendor meetings and provide input where appropriate
• Supervise and work with vendor resources where appropriate
• Understand and apply contractual and operational requirements

_Process Management_

• Document, implement and adhere to operational and technical standards, best practices, processes, and procedures (problem/change/release/request management; incident/service/time reporting)
• Assist with identifying and implementing areas for improvement within existing operational and technical processes and maintain related documentation
• Provide status on activities to Regional management on a regular basis

_Project Management_

• Assist project managers with project management activities, including requirements gathering, planning, budgeting, resource planning and management, etc.
• Project manage the implementation and rollout of new services, upgrade of production services, system and applications.

_Systems/Applications/Connectivity Coverage_

BOJ, JSCC, JSDA, BTMU, SMBC, JASDEC, JSFC, TFX, TSE, OSE, BB, Refinitiv, EBS, Bloomberg, Quick JBOND, YENSAI, CHIX, SBIJ, NRI,NCS, NEWEDGE, ICAP, TULLET, BGC, NIKKEIMM, FAME, TRADEWEB

_Qualifications, Skills & Requirements_

• Japanese (Native level), English (Business level)
• Strong interpersonal skills - communication, flexibility, self-driven, ownership, team player, analytic skills
• Good understanding of Infrastructure (Network, Firewall, Proxy, DNS, Load Balancer and Browser Engineering)
• Good understanding of Windows, Unix/Linux operating platforms, command, and scripting
• Good understanding of data contents (real-time market data, reference data)
• 2 years or more experiences or equivalent in integrating and supporting third party platforms (Bloomberg, Quick, FactSet, Nikkei NEEDS, MSCI, Toyo Keizai and so on)
• 2 years or more experiences or equivalent in RDBMS (Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or DB2)
• Experience with writing Technical and operational documentation (troubleshooting documentation, deployment documentation)
• Experience with automating data downloading, loading data into database, and setting up monitoring including alerting is particularly valued__

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_For Japan Only_

_Why Morgan Stanley?_

• A career with Morgan Stanley means being part of an inclusive culture that encourages diverse perspectives, innovation, and cross-collaboration to bring value to our clients. You'll find passionate people from all walks of life working together to make the world a little better every day.
• We invest in the growth and success of our people through mentorship and development programs, as well as abundant opportunities to connect with peers and senior leaders through employee-driven networks and volunteer activities.
• Your wellness and priorities outside of work are important to us. Our competitive compensation and benefits package is designed to support the diverse needs of our employees and take care of you and your family.
• Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to build and support a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. We are committed to support special needs or reasonable accommodations necessary to enable you to work comfortably and effectively.

Discover our Japan Offerings:https://www.morganstanley.co.jp/ja/people/working-at-morgan-stanley

Discover our Global Offerings:https://www.morganstanley.com/people/experienced-professionals

_Our Commitment to Japan_

Everything we do at Morgan Stanley is guided by our five core values: do the right thing, put clients first, lead with exceptional ideas, commit to diversity and inclusion, and give back. Since opening a representative office in Tokyo in 1970, we have been one of the largest and most active foreign financial firms in Japan providing investment banking, sales & trading, real estate, and investment management services.

Our People (English):https://www.morganstanley.com/articles/who-we-are

Our People (Japanese):https://www.morganstanley.co.jp/ja/people

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Requisition ID: 3243725