Developer Engagement Lead - AI Coding Tools - MSDE

We're seeking someone to join our team as a hands-on Developer Engagement Lead to join the Firmwide developer tools group, MSDE. MSDE is responsible for shaping the SDLC within Morgan Stanley by implementing the tools, systems, and processes used by 25,000+ developers in the Firm for software development and deployment.

This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, developer experience, and AI coding tool adoption. You'll help ensure developers don't just get access to agentic AI capabilities — they use them well, safely, and meaningfully in real workflows. You'll work with engineering teams, platform owners, risk partners, and senior technology leaders to scale adoption across the firm.

This is a Lead position at VP level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

What you'll do in the role

• Engage developers: run demos, workshops, office hours, and enablement sessions; help teams identify practical use cases for AI coding tools across coding, testing, refactoring, documentation, and code review.
• Create reusable examples, patterns, and guidance that accelerate adoption, and gather developer feedback and translate it into actionable insights for platform and product teams.
• Drive practical adoption: develop clear guidance for responsible, productive use of AI coding tools and help teams distinguish where agentic AI accelerates work from where human judgment remains essential.
• Partner with engineering leaders to identify blockers and define what good usage looks like in a regulated enterprise.
• Advocate for developers: represent the developer perspective in discussions with platform, tooling, risk, training, and leadership teams, and foster a community of AI coding tool champions.
• Create enablement content: guides, FAQs, playbooks, demo scripts, workshop materials, and short-form updates for engineers and senior stakeholders.
• Shape the adoption strategy: contribute to rollout planning, usage analysis, and continuous improvement; identify patterns, success stories, and risks.

What you'll bring to the role

• Software development experience with exposure to modern engineering workflows (PRs, CI/CD, developer tooling).
• Practical experience with AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, Claude Code).
• Ability to evaluate where AI tools add value — and where they introduce risk.
• Comfort leading demos, workshops, and enablement sessions for varied audiences.
• Clear, credible written and verbal communication, and the ability to synthesize feedback and usage patterns into recommendations.
• Skill in building trust with engineers by being honest, practical, and technically grounded.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI coding tools and curiosity about how developers work; bias toward action, experimentation, and practical outcomes.
• Comfort with evolving tools, policies, and best practices, and a collaborative approach across teams, regions, and experience levels.

• Familiarity with enterprise SDLC practices or regulated technology environments is a plus.

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that's differentiated – and we've done that for 90 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.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.