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Director, Lead Software Engineer

Morgan Stanley

Location

New York, NY

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/29/2026

Compensation

Not listed

Master's with 2+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.1% approval-23% YoY
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Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Director, Lead Software Engineer to join their team in New York. This role focuses on supporting requirement gathering, project planning, and driving end-to-end design and development of software solutions. The engineer will collaborate with stakeholders using Agile methodologies and troubleshoot existing batch failures. The position allows for telecommuting up to two days per week.

Requirements

  • Requires a Master’s in Applied Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field of study.
  • Requires three years of experience in the position offered or three years as an Associate, Data Engineer, Data Analyst, or a related occupation.
  • Requires three years of experience with technology product and delivery management functions.
  • Requires three years of experience with Informatica, Oracle (SQL/PL SQL) 10g/11g, IBM UDB DB2, IBM DB2 for z/OS, SQL SERVER, Unix, Python, DB2, Cobol, and JCL.
  • Requires experience in product management and data-driven analysis in agile environments.

Responsibilities

  • Support requirement gathering, project planning, impact analysis, effort estimation, and risk/issue tracking.
  • Drive end-to-end design and development, including design mapping, survivorship rules, data migration, POCs, runbooks, testing strategy, and support procedures.
  • Develop, test, and deploy ETL components, workflows, SQL, stored procedures, and batch jobs.
  • Perform data analysis across sources and structures and support migration of legacy feeds to distributed databases.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders regarding use cases, development sequencing, priorities, and phasing.
  • Troubleshoot existing batch failures and perform root cause analysis to resolve errors.

Benefits

  • 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.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

104

FY2026

Approval rate

99.1%

FY2026

LCA certified

765

FY2026

Entry-level share

0.0%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-23%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

+6%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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