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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What We Offer
At Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group, we’re "invested in our greatest asset, you". Our shared goals reflect what matters most to our people:
- Your community: we foster belonging through collaboration, inclusion and flexibility. Enjoy social events, volunteering and a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility. Our flexible work practices are designed to support work-life balance and provide employees with flexibility in where and how they work
- Your growth: we prioritize your development with meaningful work, continuous learning budgets, paid study days and support for professional designations.
- Recognizing you: your contributions are rewarded with competitive total compensation, retirement savings support, wellness credits, enhanced parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.
For a closer look at how you can build your career with us, we invite you to explore cclgroup.com.
We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment and selection process. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process. Please contact [contact details removed] if you require accommodation.
AI may be used to support certain stages of our screening & recruitment process. These tools support, but do not replace, human judgment and decision-making.