About the Role
The Real-Time Market Data (RTMD) team operates and supports the firm's mission-critical market data infrastructure, powering electronic trading, risk management, and front-office applications globally. This position focuses on North American trading and 24-hour market data platforms, with secondary support for Asia-Pacific exchanges. The role involves proactive monitoring, incident management, user support, and driving operational excellence through AI-enabled workflows and automation. The ideal candidate has a strong ownership mentality, excellent communication skills, and the ability to resolve issues proactively.
Responsibilities
- Perform proactive real-time monitoring of mission-critical market data systems supporting global electronic trading.
- Detect potential issues before they become production incidents and take preventative actions to minimize business impact.
- Act as the primary operational interface for Trading, Technology, Infrastructure teams, and external vendors.
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues independently with minimal escalation to Engineering teams.
- Provide technical support for real-time market data services, applications, and distribution platforms.
- Manage production incidents from identification through resolution and post-incident review.
- Leverage AI tools and technologies to improve troubleshooting, operational efficiency, documentation, knowledge management, and incident response.
- Identify automation opportunities and drive operational improvement initiatives.
- Support exchange initiatives, market structure changes, weekend testing, production deployments, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, monitoring standards, and knowledge repositories.
- Continuously improve platform reliability, operational controls, and service quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
- 3+ years of experience in Production Management, Application Support, Technical Operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related disciplines.
- Strong experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
- Experience utilizing AI tools, AI-assisted workflows, Generative AI platforms, or operational automation solutions to improve productivity and operational effectiveness.
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems and troubleshooting.
- Good understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, UDP, Multicast.
- Network diagnostics and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting end users and managing production incidents in a time-sensitive environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical skills with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced trading environment.
Skills
- Perl scripting
- Python scripting
- Market data systems
- Exchange connectivity
- Electronic trading platforms
- Monitoring platforms
- Observability platforms
- Splunk
- Grafana
- Geneos
- AI-powered operational tools
- AI-powered bots
- AI-powered agents
- AI-powered workflow automation solutions
Location
- North America
- Asia-Pacific
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
Benefits
- Attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks
About the Company
- At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals.
- We have been operating for 90 years.
- Our values include putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back.
- We support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey.
- We advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values.
- Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first-class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world.
- In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society.
Equal Opportunity
- Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.
- Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
- Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
