Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture

Location:

1 New York Plaza
New York
NY
USA
10004

Hybrid 3 Days a week onsite
Diversity candidates preferred

Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture

About Us
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. We advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions and individuals. 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. We provide you a superior foundation for building a professional career where you can learn, achieve and grow.

Technology
Technology is the key differentiator that ensures that we manage our global businesses and serve clients on a market-leading platform that is resilient, safe, efficient, smart, fast and flexible. Technology redefines how we do business in global, complex and dynamic financial markets. We have a large number of award-winning technology platforms that help to propel our Firm s businesses to be the top in the market. We have built strong techno-functional teams which partner with our offices globally taking global ownership of systems and products. We have a vibrant and diverse mix of technologists working on different technologies and functional domains. There is a large focus on innovation, inclusion, giving back to the community and sharing knowledge.

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.

Job Description
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.

Primary responsibilities
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.
Required Skills
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.
Qualifications
BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields from an accredited university.