Application Architect - ServiceNow Platform

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. 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 ethic. 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.

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses and to our own.

ESM (Enterprise System Management) group within Application Infrastructure is looking for a motivated and hands-on developer to join the ITSM (IT Service Management) team. The successful candidate will work with an existing team within all facets of development from requirements gathering, design, development, code reviews, testing, to deployment in production as well as designing, specifying, guiding development performed by more junior consultant developers and reviewing their work product. The primary focus for the integration team is cloud services such as ServiceNow and PagerDuty and how they interoperate with other cloud and on premises systems.

Skills Required

• Strong background in software development, software architecture, data structures, algorithms, and SDLC models
• Proficiency developing in scripting languages such as Python or Perl, especially under Unix/Linux
• Proficiency developing in Angular
• Knowledge of database application concepts, SQL, query optimization
• Experience developing in one or more languages such as C , or Java
• Familiarity with REST, SOAP, JSON, XML
• Ability to work with customers, gather requirements and create solutions independently
• Active participation within and among teams and colleagues distributed globally
• Good verbal and written communication skills are a must
• Excellent problem solving skills, in particular a methodical approach to dealing with problems across distributed systems.
• Unit and functional testing skills

Skills Desired

• Agile development experience
• Experience developing in ServiceNow (JavaScript, workflows, update sets)
• Angular and Node.js experience a plus
• Knowledge of database application concepts, SQL, query optimization
• Experience with web application user interface and usability concepts
• Understanding of secure software development concepts, especially in a cloud platform
• Experience with monitoring, event/alert management and observability concepts a plus