Manager, Software Engineering - Parametric
AI summary of the role
Parametric, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, seeks a hands-on Manager of Software Engineering to lead the Accounting Platforms team in Minneapolis.
What you’ll do
- Own a prioritized portfolio spanning platform operations, BAU demand, and strategic transition, holding trade-offs between them.
- Own operational health of accounting platforms: reliability, monitoring, incident response, vendor escalation, and serve as Primary IT System Owner.
- Own the Radius Accounting Service (APIs and Kafka interfaces) and design high-value accounting data products with automation teams.
- Lead the sustained alignment of accounting workflows with Radius, including workflow discovery, target-state agreement, and adoption.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing software engineers.
- Experience leading a technical team through a multi-stakeholder platform build or modernization with business-process change.
- Accountability for uptime and operational health of a production system, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Hands-on engineering depth to participate in design review and technical trade-off discussions.
Technologies
Kafka · APIs · AWS · CI/CD · infrastructure as code · Advent APX · Radius · cloud-native services
About Morgan Stanley
Global financial-services firm advising, trading, managing and allocating capital for corporations, governments, institutions, wealthy clients and retail investors across banking, markets and asset management.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings. This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week. ABOUT THE TEAM The Accounting Platforms team at Parametric: Is accountable for the reliability and strategic evolution of the accounting platforms Parametric's investment business depends on - a portfolio of vendor-provided, third-party systems alongside one platform built and maintained internally by Parametric engineering teams. Ensures the accounting platforms support the full breadth of the business: equities, fixed income, options, and derivatives, across both domestic and international investment strategies. Owns these platforms end to end: operational health and vendor relationships on one side, and
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ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com. ABOUT PARAMETRIC Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings. This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week. ABOUT THE TEAM The Accounting Platforms team at Parametric: Is accountable for the reliability and strategic evolution of the accounting platforms Parametric's investment business depends on - a portfolio of vendor-pr [... source excerpt omitted ...] oftware Engineer who provides architectural leadership and technical direction, and together they guide technology decisions, delivery priorities, and platform evolution. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Delivery and portfolio Own a single visible, prioritized portfolio spanning platform operations, BAU demand, and strategic transition, and hold the trade-offs between them. Own the intake-to-delivery process - sizing, decision rights, stakeholder commitment, and delivery reporting - and keep it fit for purpose as demand changes. Platform operations Own the operational health of the accounting platforms: reliability, monitoring and alerting, runbooks, incident response and review, known- [... source excerpt omitted ...] ends on and for escalation when those outcomes are at risk. Ensure the accounting platforms scale efficiently to meet Parametric's growing transaction volumes and data throughput requirements. Build and sustain subject-matter depth in how Parametric uses each accounting platform: integration points, data-extraction paths, operational dependencies, and failure modes. Accounting capability in Radius Own the Radius Accounting Service: the APIs and Kafka interfaces that map Parametric’s business domain concepts onto each accounting platform’s integration model, so consumers work in business language rather than accounting-system detail. Own the design of high-value accounting data p
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