Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd.
Gurugram, India
As passionate developers, we are faced with complex problems that are ideally solved with technology. Applying technology to investment problems has been key to the firm’s success and plays an increasingly significant role in the evolution of the firm and the industry. Our Trading & Compliance systems handle many thousands of orders per day in more than 70 countries around the world. The Information Systems Trading & Compliance Team has presence in Vancouver, Canada and Gurugram, India. We place high value on maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit and creating a culture where each of us has opportunities to succeed.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
Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS).
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
- Co-ordinate with various Information Systems teams including onshore staff, 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 Charles River platform experience is required with version 20R1 or higher.
- 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
- Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- Work well in both collaborative and individual contributor scenarios.
- Hands-on knowledge of Azure architecture and development is preferred.
About Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group
At Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group, we understand the value of opportunity – for our clients and our team. Independent and employee-owned, we partner with investment professionals to grow successful asset management businesses, giving them the space to innovate and truly make an impact. With more than 40 years of history and offices across Canada and in the US, the UK and India, CC&L Financial Group and our multi-boutique family of affiliate firms collectively manage Over USD$99 billion in assets, providing a diverse range of traditional and alternative investment products and solutions to institutional, high-net-worth and retail clients. For a closer look at how you can build your career with us, we invite you to explore cclgroup.com. CC&L is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or age. To apply for this position, please submit your resume and cover letter as one PDF. We thank all applicants in advance for their interest, but only those candidates shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls or recruitment agencies will be accepted.To apply for this position, please submit your resume and cover letter as one PDF. Apply for this Position
