MS Smith Barney, LLC operates as a leading global financial services firm, active since 1935, delivering investment banking, securities, wealth management, and investment management services across worldwide markets. The firm employs both investment bankers and technologists, with the latter building and maintaining the secure platforms that power its global operations - a technical foundation critical to protecting client assets, transaction integrity, and market infrastructure at scale.
The technology organization focuses on secure platform development for a business that serves clients and communities worldwide. This includes building and hardening systems that support global markets operations, client services delivery, and cross-border financial transactions. The firm's technology staff work within an environment where five core values guide operations: doing the right thing, putting clients first, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back. The culture emphasizes both cross-collaboration and individual technical expertise, with committed mentors available to guide professional development.
The firm runs analyst programs designed for recent graduates alongside opportunities for experienced professionals, indicating both entry-level and senior technical hiring pathways. Given the firm's client-first orientation and the sensitivity of financial data it handles, technologists here operate in a threat environment that demands robust access controls, transaction security, regulatory compliance frameworks, and resilience against sophisticated financial crime and state-level adversaries. The company is headquartered in the United States and led by CEO Ted Pick.