Charles River Developer

Job Description

<h3>Job Description</h3><p>Job Description<p><p>Are you a passionate developer with expertise in the Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS)? Are you personable and do you enjoy working with business users? </p><p><br /></p><p>Our client is looking for a <strong>Charles River Developer</strong> for a permanent position in their downtown Toronto office. We are looking for a senior developer with technical development experience and solid business knowledge of asset management functions, portfolio management, multi-asset trading in Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, credit default securities, etc. within the <strong>Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS).</strong></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>This is what you&#39;ll do on a day to day basis:</strong></p><p><br /></p><ul><li>Work with Traders/Portfolio Managers on addressing Manager Workbench setup, enhancements, and issues in response to functionalities like modelling, rebalancing, etc.</li><li>Work with Traders/Portfolio Managers on addressing Blotter and trade workflow setup, enhancements, and issues.</li><li>Work with Portfolio Compliance to assist with pre- and post-trade compliance testing, AS OF compliance setup and enhancement requests.</li><li>Create, modify different types of CRIMS workflow rules, instrument defaults, user setup, privileging, import/export translations.</li><li>Helping with CRIMS Batch Imports, Data validation, Security set up, Workflow rules, Custom solutions, Queries, Result sets.</li><li>Create custom trade files for custodians, third parties and valuation groups leveraging CRIMS </li><li>Co-ordinate with various Information Systems teams including onshore staff, Charles River Development and raise support tickets.</li><li>Perform issue resolution, root cause analysis, and assist in efficient resolution of all production processes.</li><li>Help with unit and systems integration testing of CRIMS version and patch upgrades. </li><li>Provide high-touch on-call support to critical issues and production releases.</li><li>Take ownership and initiative ensuring accuracy and quality in all deliverables.</li><li>Write and help improve technical documentation for all systems processes. </li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>This is the type of person we are looking for:</strong></p><p><br /></p><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.</li><li>8+ years of experience in technology.</li><li>3+ years of Charles River platform experience is required with version 20R1 or higher.</li><li>3+ years of knowledge in trading and trade booking lifecycle.</li><li>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.</li><li>Ability to work with remote teams spread across different geographies and time zones.</li><li>Extensive knowledge of SQL.</li><li>Experience with development in the C#.NET tech stack</li><li>Preferred Qualifications</li><li>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.</li><li>Understanding and use of design patterns in programming</li><li>Understanding of SOLID principles of object-oriented design</li><li>Have a mentorship mindset, to coach and guide fellow team members</li><li>Work well in both collaborative and individual contributor scenarios.</li><li>Hands-on knowledge of Azure architecture and development is preferred.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p>Salary range: $100-200k + bonus</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>If you are interested in exploring this position, please apply now!</strong></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Our client is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at their company.</p><p><br /></p><p><em>People are our passion. People are our profession.</em></p><p><em>Since 2010, SIGnature Recruiting has been pairing exceptional people with short-term contracts and long-term careers in Vancouver’s flourishing IT industry. We are specialists in IT Recruiting and pride ourselves in making valuable contributions to our clients and candidates.</em></p><p><br /></p></p></p>