Technical Business and Data Analyst - VP Glasgow JR016683 Role The “Firmwide Data Office” department is recruiting an enthusiastic, dynamic “Technical BA” for this innovative program that plans to harness the power of Graph & Semantic Technologies. You will be building upon an Enterprise Knowledge Graph to help solve complex business problems around Data Lineage, Resilience, Cyber Response, Metadata Management, Data protection all contributing to toe Firm’s overall data strategy. As a member of our data science and data analytics team, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate about solving business problems in a data-driven manner, using innovation and best practice engineering, are intellectually curious and can thrive on ambiguity. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our stakeholders globally. You'll combine your design and development expertise to create innovative technology through solid engineering practices. You’ll work with highly inspired and inquisitive team of technologists who are developing & delivering top quality technology products to our clients & stakeholders. Department Profile: Firmwide Data Office We are a team of around 200+ people distributed globally and are engaged in a wide array of projects touching all business units (Institutional Securities, Investment Management, Wealth Management) and functions (e.g. Operations, Finance, Risk, Trading, Treasury, Resilience) across the Firm. The team vision is a multi-year effort to simplify firm’s data architecture and business processes front-to-back with goals of reducing infrastructure and manpower costs, improving the ability to demonstrate control of data, empowering developers by providing consistent means of handling data, facilitate data-driven insights & decision making. Program Description We are working on an exciting new initiative to build an Enterprise Knowledge Graph by harnessing the power of Graph and Semantic technologies to map complex application, data, and infrastructure asset relationships to facilitate data-driven insights and decision making. Across our business divisions, as we strive to understand risk impact, optimize cost, assess business resiliency, manage change and identify opportunities - all critical to fuel the growth engine -, we need to link vast amount of data of different types and forms across heterogeneous data sources across the Firm to generate meaningful intelligence. Responsibilities In depth data analysis, with a focus on solving specific business problems of Cyber Resilience, Data Lineage, Business Continuity and Data Protection Harness the power of a semantic triple store and graph database to answer complex business questions, delivering insights and inference capabilities Align data requirements to application development within a graph framework Contribute to data modeling to ensure it can support a variety of use-cases from traditional reporting, to application UI’s and LLM-based chatbots and RAG query/responses Work within an Agile framework, emphasizing capabilities that contribute to business value Act as a role model to junior analysts, data scientists, business analysts and developers Help build a rapidly growing team in a competitive environment Requirements Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 8+ years of relevant experience in Data and Business Analysis Familiarity with working with Graph databases Strong communication skills with demonstrated ability to lead initiatives, including defining, implementing and reporting on progress and business impact Strong problem-solving skills, business acumen, and demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences Ability to work with senior stakeholders, bringing different teams together to execute on a plan towards a common goal Significant experience in Program Management for large transformation projects, with understanding of high-quality governance practices Experience working with stakeholders to capture requirements, user stories and covert them into development deliverables Advantages Understanding of RDF, OWL, SHACL and other semantic technologies Familiarity with Ontologies Previous experience with LLM driven solutions and NLP practices Experience in Banking or Financial Services 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. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser. Certified Persons Regulatory Requirements: If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks. Flexible work statement Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents. At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values. Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first-class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world. In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society. What We Do
