CRIMS Developer

Interested in joining one of Canada’s top performing asset managers? We are looking for a CRIMS Developer for an existing vacancy in our Trading & Compliance Systems Team. Our Trading & Compliance systems handles 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 are excited to expand to Toronto to better support our growing 24-hour business. 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). Our offices currently operate on a hybrid model with a combination of in-office and remote working days throughout the week.

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.

• 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
• 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 is a asset.
• Hands-on knowledge of Azure architecture and development is preferred.