Technology Summer Analyst Program

About Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a New York-based financial services company that was founded in 1935. The company's founder, Harold Stanley, was a co-founder of Goldman Sachs and brought many of his top employees to the new venture. The firm's first offices were located on Wall Street in Manhattan.

Morgan Stanley is a company known for its role as an investment bank and financial services provider. The company, based out of New York City, also has large offices in China and other international locations.

Morgan Stanley's main business arm is Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, which provides financial advice, wealth management services, and alternative investments to high-net-worth individuals and institutions. It's considered one of the top wealth management firms in the world, but it also offers securities brokerage and investment banking services. The company's investment banking arm provides investment banking services to corporate clients.

Your role

Placement/Duration:

Summer Analysts join for 2 months in May of each year. Summer Analysts are placed into a specific development or infrastructure team, both of which are designed to offer a real-world, project-based experience that will demonstrate firsthand what it's like to be a technologist for a world-class financial firm.

Responsibilities

Development Teams

• The development teams are tasked with designing, developing and maintaining applications used by the Firm’s business units. 
• Daily activities include meeting with clients to gather and analyze requirements; making system design decisions; evaluating, integrating and developing necessary software; and testing and deploying applications to production. 
• Developing high-performing low-latency electronic trading systems across multiple asset classes, providing sophisticated risk management analytics and systems, and evolving complex workflows and life-cycle management capabilities across increasingly sophisticated products are just some of the many projects available for developers within their technical organizations.

Infrastructure Teams

• The infrastructure—facing teams are developing cutting-edge systems to run their business.
• Engineers provide tools, applications and platforms such as the Firm’s networks, computing hardware, operating systems and databases for trading applications, mobile applications and other end-user applications. Working in small, nimble teams, the group provides applications that span the breadth of the Firm’s clients in an efficient manner.
• Engineering the Firm’s websites, managing the Windows plant, and developing a client reporting delivery system are some of the projects available for infrastructure engineers in their organizations.

Training & development 

Training commences with an induction day that provides an overview of the Firm, its structure and strategy as well as guidance on making the transition from campus to the corporate environment. Following direct placement into teams, Summer Analysts work on live projects of real relevance to Morgan Stanley. Throughout the Program, students experience guest lectures with senior management and have opportunities to attend networking, team building, and social and charitable events.

Benefits

Below are the employee benefits at Morgan Stanley:

• Financial Services 
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance 
• Disability Insurance 
• Retirement Plans 
• Banking
• Accounts and Loans

(Source: Glassdoor)

Work-life balance

Work-life balance is rated at 4.0 (Source: Glassdoor). Work days are usually from Monday to Friday. Morgan Stanley provides a hybrid working option with flexible work timings.

Culture & vibe

Morgan Stanley is known for its culture of hard work and dedication, but the company still maintains a sense of fun and playfulness. From their annual costume contests to the happy hour celebrations, there's always an entertaining or memorable event on the horizon. Employees never have trouble finding something to do, whether it's at work or after hours. 

The firm values its employees as much as they value their clients, making sure that everyone has a voice in how they run things. There's never a dull moment at Morgan Stanley, which can either mean working late into the evening or enjoying a fun trip to the Bahamas. 

About You

Here’s what we are looking for with this role:

Qualifications

• You are a Bachelor's or Master's student in your penultimate year of study.
• Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology or other related technical majors are preferred.
• You have experience with at least one programming language: e.g., Java, C++ or C#, and database knowledge.
• You have operating system knowledge (Windows and Unix).
• You have excellent problem-solving skills, experience in object-oriented development, good comprehension of data structures, algorithms and complexity theory, and strong database and scripting skills.
• You have excellent problem-solving, communication, teamwork and analytical skills.
• You are fluent in English.

How to apply

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