• We are seeking a strategic, data-driven Middle Office Data Engineering and Quality
• Director to lead the build and evolve a best-in-class Data Quality and Engineering function in India.

This role sits within the Public Markets Middle Office and is pivotal to ensuring data accuracy, transparency, and operational readiness across the firm's transaction lifecycle in support of MSIM clients, investment teams and traders, and other essential uses of this data.

The successful candidate will be an innovative data science professional, who will develop quality control checks and insights to mitigate data quality issues, identify anomalies in data for research, and continuously improve upon the process to expand across a complex data set.

This position will partner closely with the Middle Office functional teams to establish and evolve the cross-platform data quality framework and controls for transaction lifecycle data to support efficient trade processing.

In the Operations division, we partner with business units across the Firm to support financial transactions, devise and implement effective controls and develop client relationships.

This is a Team Supervisor position at Director level within the within Core Services, which is responsible for performing and managing product-agnostic and centralized operational services across several businesses and products

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.

What you'll do in the role:Operational Data Quality Framework & Controls: Own data quality framework for cross platform transaction lifecycle management data Lead cross platform alignment for integrated controls and monitoring and ability to navigate business matters.

Develop, maintain, and operationalize data quality controls across the transaction lifecycle Align with enterprise data strategy/governance initiatives to ensure implementation within Middle Office.

Maintain robust data validation and exception monitoring processes to ensure cross platform completeness, accuracy, and timeliness cross.

Support research and triage of data exceptions, enabling scalable issue identification, mitigation and/or resolution, and escalation.

Provide high-touch leadership and accountability of complex and sensitive data sets.

Document business requirements and use cases for data-related projects Ensure proactive, high-quality outcomes for clients and investment teams, and other data consumers of MSIM's books and records.

Build and implement data-driven platforms, dashboards, and automated controls, including managing change control process and participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) activities as required.

Deliver and manage KPI dashboards, trend analysis, and exception reporting to senior stakeholders and data governance forums. > BS/BA degree required.

What you'll bring to the role: 7+ years of experience in Investment Operations, Data Management, or Middle Office data and analytics at a global asset manager or financial services firm.\A strong understanding of data quality principles, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness.

Proficient in data validation, data cleansing, and data governance.

Experience in investment management across pooled vehicles, SMAs, and institutional mandates.

Demonstrated understanding of investment and trade lifecycle, with focus on cross platform data sets and outcomes (reference data, marker trades, prices, corporate actions, accruals, amortization, etc.).Familiarity with a full range of financial products, including public and private instruments, and asset classes (e.g., equity, fixed, derivatives, loans).AI savvy, and experience with leading process improvements and transformation.

Experience with data quality tools, dashboards, APIs to support real-time data validation and exception handling.

Strong technology (pro dev and low code) experience, with a track record of developing data-driven platforms, dashboards, and automated controls Strong analysis and analytical skills to perform root cause analysis, data lineage, exception handling, and process optimization.

Demonstrated ability to synthesis data for MI reporting on key performance indicators and other portfolio accounting data as inputs into middle office data health and identifying areas for operational optimization.

Experience with Data Quality platforms (e.g.

PanDQ, Informatica, PEGA Exception Management) & Business Intelligence Tools (e.g.

Alteryx, PowerBI, etc...)WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY: At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals.

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