Core Strats Library , Senior Associate, Institutional Equity Division

Division: Institutional Equity Derivatives Strats                          

Job Title: Senior Associate – Core Strats Library

Location: Mumbai – Oberoi Commerz III                                     

Job Level: Senior Associate

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success.  Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethics.  Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Department Profile

From global institutions to hedge funds, investors come to Morgan Stanley for sales, trading, and market-making services in almost every type of financial instrument in all the world’s financial markets. Morgan Stanley professionals use our network and technology to provide liquidity and sophisticated analysis, to manage risk and execute reliably in the fast-changing markets.

Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division (IED) is a world leader in the origination, distribution and trading of equity, equity-linked and equity-derivative securities. Our broad and deep client relationships, market-leading platform and intellectual insights enable us to be a world-class service provider to our clients for their financing, market access and portfolio management needs.

Primary Responsibilities

Morgan Stanley's Equities Derivatives division is looking for a Core Strategist for its Equity Derivative Strat Team. Strategists are key participants, together with traders and salespeople, in the revenue-generating activities of our Sales & Trading Division. Core Strategists provide the C++ quant library platform on which new product-specific valuation models are written. They ensure speed, quality, consistency, and timely delivery of valuation models across all equity derivative products.

We are looking for a strategist to expand our platform that automatically catches bugs in our C++ valuation models before they reach production. These valuation models are contained in a large library with dozens of active contributors which we aim to release weekly. To achieve this rapid delivery, we want to expand our use of automated tools to detect common errors early. This platform will use a variety of techniques including:

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering, Quality & Modernization

• Lead engineering initiatives to improve library performance, reliability, and scalability
• Build and enhance automated testing frameworks, including regression testing, static analysis, fuzzing, and property-based testing with randomized inputs
• Improve platform quality through:
  • Code coverage enforcement and SonarQube quality gates
  • Regression test analysis to proactively detect issues
  • Modernized test infrastructure for faster and more reliable feedback
• Contribute to platform modernization initiatives, including RHEL9 rollout, Bazel adoption, and C++20 migration with Docker adoption

Build & Release Automation

• Enhance release reliability and velocity by driving:
  • Automated release pipelines to reduce manual effort and errors
  • Signoff automation to streamline approvals and ensure audit readiness
  • Auto-bisection tooling for faster root-cause analysis and debugging

Test Infrastructure

• Develop production-like test harnesses in Python, Java, or C++
• Support and optimize large-scale nightly regression runs

Data & Insights

• Track and analyze defect detection metrics (e.g., early vs. late bug identification)
• Use insights to guide testing strategy, tooling improvements, and coverage expansion

Code Quality

• Collaborate with developers to eliminate recurring bug patterns
• Refactor C++ code to improve reliability, maintainability, and testability

Required Skills & Experience (Essential)

Technical

• At least 2 years of strong software development experience in C++
• Experience with Python or Java
• Experience working in Linux environments
• Solid understanding of testing methodologies (unit, regression, automation)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field involving applied mathematics
  (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics)

Core Competencies

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Experience working in cross-functional teams, bridging technical and design perspectives
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High motivation and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of mathematical optimization algorithms
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Hands-on experience with C++ build, release, and testing frameworks
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and build systems (e.g., Bazel)
• Experience with large-scale C++ codebases or numerical/quant systems

Impact

• Drive engineering-focused platform initiatives
• Improve production reliability through early defect detection
• Enable faster, safer release cycles through automation and modernization

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.

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 what's 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.

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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.

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