Morgan Stanley Investment Management is seeking an experienced Data Architect to shape and drive the transformation of its data capabilities. The role focuses on defining the strategic direction and architecture for data across various investment platforms. The Data Architect will work collaboratively with multiple teams to ensure data is treated as an enterprise asset, enabling advanced analytics and AI. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence data usage at an organizational level while maintaining compliance and security standards.

• Experience within financial services, asset management, banking, or another highly regulated industry.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.
• Experience with contemporary data platforms and technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, or comparable technologies.

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Develop target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps spanning operational, analytical, and AI-oriented data platforms.
• Establish architecture patterns for data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage, consumption, and distribution.
• Partner with data engineering teams to translate architecture into scalable, resilient, and maintainable implementations.
• Embed data governance, quality, privacy, security, entitlements, retention, and regulatory requirements into architectural designs.

• Morgan Stanley offers extensive benefits that support employees’ careers, health, finances, and families, including top-tier medical coverage, mental health support, generous parental leave, fertility and family-building benefits, and robust retirement and stock purchase plans. Employees also gain access to continuous learning and networking opportunities, volunteer and giving programs aligned with the firm’s values, and hundreds of lifestyle perks like discounted products, cultural and entertainment tickets, and commuter savings.