App Dev Engineering Lead | Wealth Management Fraud | Executive Director
Position Description: We are seeking a senior global engineering leader to define and drive the next-generation Fraud Technology strategy, ensuring the safe enablement of both current and long-term Wealth Management (WM) business expansion. This role will lead the architecture, engineering, and transformation of Fraud platforms and controls across multiple channels including client, advisor, payment and digital channels.
The ideal candidate combines deep Fraud/Risk domain expertise with modern platform engineering, data/AI capabilities, and strong organizational leadership. This leader will partner closely with Fraud Operations, Risk, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data, and WM business leadership to build scalable, intelligent, and resilient fraud capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
> Define and execute the multi-year Fraud Technology Prevention & Detection strategy for Wealth Management
> Lead architecture and engineering of modern fraud platforms including:
o real-time detection and decisioning
o event-driven architectures
o behavioral and graph analytics
o AI/ML-enabled fraud detection
o Niche 3rd party vendor product integration
> Build scalable platforms for fraud monitoring across payments, onboarding, account activity, digital channels, and advisor channels
> Drive modernization toward cloud-ready, data-driven, and AI-enabled fraud capabilities
> Partner with Fraud Operations and Risk teams to improve detection effectiveness while reducing false positives and client friction
> Establish engineering standards across low latency, agility, resiliency, observability, security, governance, and operational excellence
> Lead organizational transformation including go-to-market operating models, engineering talent strategy, and AI-enabled ways of working
> Manage and mentor high-performing global engineering teams across software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML
> Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Technology, Risk, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and WM business leadership > 15+ years of technology experience with significant leadership in Fraud, Cybersecurity, trust & safety, or Financial Crime technology
> Proven experience building and scaling large-scale Fraud or Risk platforms in banking, payments, fintech, or regulated financial services
> Strong expertise in:
o real-time distributed systems
o streaming/event-driven architectures
o cloud-native engineering
o data and AI/ML platforms
o graph and behavioral analytics
> Experience implementing fraud detection using rules, analytics, and machine learning approaches
> Demonstrable experience in leveraging GenAI to drive efficiency and effectiveness
> Experience leading global high-performance engineering organizations and complex cross-functional transformation programs
> Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
> Experience operating within highly regulated environments with strong governance and audit requirements
> Bachelor's degree: advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred,
Preferred Qualifications
> Experience in Wealth Management environments
> Exposure to blockchain analytics, digital assets, or crypto-related fraud controls
> Background in modern data platforms and low-latency decisioning architectures
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
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