About the role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer to join our team supporting the technology that enables our investment and trading processes. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on role working closely with Traders, Portfolio Managers, Compliance, and other investment and technology teams to support and enhance front-office capabilities across portfolio management, modelling, rebalancing, trading, and compliance. The ideal candidate brings strong business knowledge of asset management and the end-to-end trade lifecycle across asset classes including Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Credit products, combined with a strong technical background. Experience with Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS) is highly preferred. The role offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of investment management and technology, solving complex business and production challenges while contributing to the ongoing evolution of our public markets platform.
What You Will Do
- Work with Traders\Portfolio Managers on addressing Manager Workbench setup, enhancements, and issues in response to functionalities like modelling, rebalancing, etc.
- Work with Traders\Portfolio Managers on addressing Blotter and trade workflow setup, enhancements, and issues.
- Work with Portfolio Compliance to assist with pre- and post-trade compliance testing, AS OF compliance setup and enhancement requests.
- Create, modify different types of CRIMS workflow rules, instrument defaults, user setup, privileging, import/ export translations.
- Helping with CRIMS Batch Imports, Data validation, Security set up, Workflow rules, Custom solutions, Queries, Result sets.
- Create custom trade files for custodians, third parties and valuation groups leveraging CRIMS DoExports.
- Co-ordinate with various Information Systems teams including Charles River Development and raise support tickets.
- Perform issue resolution, root cause analysis, and assist in efficient resolution of all production processes. Help with unit and systems integration testing of CRIMS version and patch upgrades.
- Provide high-touch on-call support to critical issues and production releases. Take ownership and initiative ensuring accuracy and quality in all deliverables. Write and help improve technical documentation for all systems processes.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college. 8+ years of experience in technology.
- 3+ years of knowledge in trading and trade booking lifecycle.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, along with solid technical background are essential as is the ability to multi-task in a high-paced work environment.
- Ability to work with remote teams spread across different geographies and time zones. Extensive knowledge of SQL.
- Experience with development in the C#.NET tech stack. Flexibility to work in the EMEA shift.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in Charles River front-office support interacting with traders, portfolio managers, back-office, and trade operations personnel daily to help troubleshoot issues throughout the entire life cycle of orders.
- Understanding and use of design patterns in programming Understanding of SOLID principles of object-oriented design
- Have a mentorship mindset, to coach and guide fellow team members
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