Cloud Infrastructure Lead - .NET Platforms

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.

This is a Lead Workplace Engineering position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for managing and optimizing the technical environment and end-user experience across various workplace technologies, ensuring seamless operations and user satisfaction across the organization.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

Role Overview

The End User Content Solutions (EUCS) squad designs, delivers, and supports enterprise SaaS platforms including Box, Google Workspace, Qualtrics, Microsoft Forms, and SIMPL-Morgan Stanley's internal SaaS onboarding and management platform.

As the EUCS Lead Engineer, you will provide technical and people leadership for the squad, driving platform reliability, secure integrations, and roadmap execution. You will partner closely with internal engineering teams and SaaS vendors while remaining hands-on in modern cloud development. You will champion continuous improvement through automation, DevOps practices, and AI-driven enhancements to improve user experience and adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the EUCS engineering squad, ensuring high-quality delivery and operational excellence. • Own the development and maintenance of cloud-based tooling and services using .NET /.NET Core, or Python. • Provide technical leadership for SaaS integrations, onboarding, and secure access solutions. • Act as primary escalation point for complex production issues and vendor engagements. • Ensure compliance with change management, security, and operational standards. • Collaborate closely with security, LDAP, web proxy, networking, authentication & authorization, and engineering teams. • Lead the design and optimization of CI/CD pipelines and automation. • Participate on-call and escalated support to maintain service quality. • Maintain accurate production, implementation, and operational documentation.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of application development experience using .NET, C#, and/or Python. • Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering enterprise-scale cloud solutions. • Deep knowledge in one or more SaaS application/Cloud platforms, such as Box, Google Workspace, Qualtrics, or Office 365. • Strong experience with OAuth, SAML, and enterprise identity integrations. • Expertise in building SaaS onboarding, lifecycle management, and automation tooling. • Proficiency with Git-based version control and DevOps best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership within Agile delivery frameworks. • Solid understanding of networking concepts and practical experience with load balancing technologies. • Exposure to containerization technologies (e.g., Podman, Kubernetes).

What You Bring

• A strong technical foundation combined with effective people leadership. • Excellent problem-solving and prioritization skills for complex environments. • Clear, confident communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders. • A continuous-improvement mindset, with interest in automation and AI-driven innovation.

About Morgan Stanley

We have a track record of innovation and passion for unlocking new opportunities, we help our clients raise, manage and allocate capital. We do this by offering a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and asset management services.

All that we do at Morgan Stanley is driven by our five core values: do the right thing, put clients first, lead with exceptional ideas, commit to diversity and inclusion, and give back. These aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day, ensuring we do whats best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees around the world.

And at the core of our success are the people who drive it - relentless collaborators and creative thinkers who are fueled by diverse thinking and experiences.

Where Youll Work

Wherever you are in our 1,200 global offices, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are empowered to achieve your full potential.

We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.

What We Offer

Morgan Stanleys goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

What You Can Expect from Morgan Stanley

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that's differentiated - and we've done that for 90 years.

Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do whats best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.

At Morgan Stanley, you'll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences.

We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.

There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Compensation

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $150,000 and $210,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.