Job Description

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit

ABOUT PARAMETRIC
Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT TEAM
The Data Management Office ensures that data pipelines are scalable, repeatable, secure, and can serve multiple users. We help facilitate getting data from a variety of different sources, getting it in the right formats, assuring that it adhere to data quality standards, and assuring that downstream users can get that data quickly.

ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Lead Data Quality Engineer at Parametric, you will design and execute the testing strategy for our new central Data Lake initiative. Our data sets are focused on financial market information from both vendor and internal sources to meet our business needs. You will be responsible for creating, evaluating, and maintaining test plans and cases for various data management platforms such as SQL Server, S3 Data Lake, and Snowflake. The ideal candidate has a passion for quality, financial services and data technologies. A love for learning and flexibility is also key. We are Agile so knowing Scrum is a big plus. This role will also be responsible for directing the work for of team of consultants.

Primary Responsibilities

• Test architecture, planning, design and implementation
  • Create data and SQL centric testing strategies with acceptance criteria that meets defined business requirements
  • Create, execute and validate test plans and cases with business owners and data engineers
  • Work with DevOps to create and maintain test environments (both Linux and Windows)
  • Demo data solutions to business stakeholders and obtain sign off
  • Fill out and manage the release tickets through user acceptance (UAT) and production
• Business Interaction
  • Work directly with business members to understand requirements and ensure acceptance criteria is met
  • Perform all aspects of User Acceptance Testing: answering client questions, tracking and reporting issues, determining and classifying bug versus enhancement
• Tools and Test Methodologies
  • Agile Testing
  • Automated Integration Testing
  • Experience with testing automation tools as applied to data solution is highly desirable

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• 8+ years of QA experience primarily in data solutions
• Deep experience in creating and documenting test plans, test case scenarios and processes.
• Strong analytical skills, judgment and ability to understand complex business problems quickly
• Prior experience managing or directing the work of consultants
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Well-versed in all testing methodologies (black box, white box, system, functional, exploratory and automated testing)
• Background in data engineering, data testing frameworks and automation preferred
• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent education and experience
• Tech Stack Requirements: 
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • AWS Experience such as S3, IAM, Lambdas, and Glue
  • Data Lake Experience such as S3, EMR, Hadoop
  • Snowflake
  • Airflow
  • NiFi
• Experience in an Agile environment.

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client service

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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.

Salary range for the position: $110,000 - $225,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

Morgan Stanley's 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).

Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Work at office, Local area, Remote work, Worldwide, 3 days per week,

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