Morgan Stanley is seeking an Associate, Software Engineer in Alpharetta, Georgia, to develop a framework that streamlines web services development. The role focuses on automating decision-making workflows, enhancing system flexibility, and leading migration initiatives to scalable architectures. The engineer will design high-performance frameworks and develop end-to-end batch components while ensuring seamless deployment across various environments. This position also involves implementing monitoring mechanisms and providing production support for critical financial workflows.

• Requires a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
• Requires five years of experience in the position offered or five years as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, Technical lead, or a related technical occupation.
• Requires five years of experience with designing and developing complex web applications using modern web application development technologies and frameworks.
• Requires five years of experience with developing large scale complex software solutions.
• Requires five years of experience with developing web services using standard Java-based frameworks/toolkits.
• Requires five years of experience with developing client-server, distributed, real-time applications.
• Requires five years of experience with concurrency and high volume server-side development.
• Requires five years of experience with DB concepts and experience working on SQL Server.
• Requires five years of experience with messaging protocols MQ and Kafka.
• Requires five years of experience with developing standards/practices.
• Requires five years of experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle of the project.
• Requires experience with Java/J2EE, UI technologies, Spring, myBatis, Gradle, MQ, Kafka, SQL Server, and web services including REST, SOAP, JSON, and XML.

• Develop a framework to streamline web services development, reducing costs and improving team efficiency.
• Automate decision-making workflows and validate data objects to enhance system flexibility and performance.
• Lead migration initiatives from legacy systems to scalable, open-source architectures.
• Design and implement high-performance frameworks capable of processing millions of records.
• Develop end-to-end batch components including readers, processors, writers, job listeners, retry logic, skip policies, checkpointing, and restart mechanisms.
• Handle deployment activities across both on-premise environments and cloud-based repositories.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify failures and performance bottlenecks.
• Participate in architectural discussions and define enterprise batch processing standards.
• Provide production support, conduct root cause analysis, and implement performance tuning strategies.
• Utilize containerization technologies to deploy and manage microservices.

• 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.