CRD & Trading Systems Senior Developer

London

About Davidson Kempner 

Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP is a global investment management firm. Founded in 1983, Davidson Kempner is headquartered in New York and has offices in Philadelphia, London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Mumbai and Abu Dhabi. Our Firm invests globally and opportunistically across the capital structure, in a variety of credit and equity strategies as well as real assets. We apply our multi-dimensional, research-driven investment process to evaluate and execute a diverse range of transactions across asset classes, geographies and market cycles. We target complex, global situations where our experience and expertise can unlock value.

We bring together exceptional people from different disciplines and backgrounds who are energized by the challenges of navigating complexity. We look for people who demonstrate exceptional critical thinking skills, innate curiosity, creativity and embrace diverse viewpoints to calibrate their decisions. These differentiators make our people successful beyond a specific job at Davidson Kempner – but throughout their journey with us over many years.

 

Investment Management Technology – CRD & Trading Systems Senior Developer

We are hiring a CRD & Trading Systems Senior Developer to join our global Trading Systems team in London, supporting our CRD OMS and connected trading workflows used by desks worldwide.

This is a senior hands-on engineering role focused on enhancing, stabilising and extending our existing vendor OMS platform (CRD) and its integrations across front, middle and back office systems.

Our strategy is to leverage and evolve our vendor platform, engineering robustness, improving workflows, and reducing operational friction in a live production environment.

You will work closely with traders, compliance, operations and global technology teams to deliver pragmatic, incremental improvements that increase stability, transparency and time-to-market.

Success in this role requires strong production engineering discipline, comfort operating within vendor platform constraints, and a mindset focused on reliability and long-term platform evolution.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Enhance and support CRD OMS workflows in a live production trading environment
  • Design and deliver improvements to order routing, FIX connectivity and downstream post-trade integrations
  • Act as senior escalation point for CRD-related production issues, driving root cause analysis and permanent fixes
  • Improve platform observability, logging, monitoring and operational resilience
  • Build and maintain integrations across front-, middle- and back-office systems (allocations, matching, confirmations, reconciliations, daily P&L)
  • Work iteratively with trading desks and operations to deliver small, safe, high-impact improvements
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, release management and automation
  • Reduce manual processes and operational risk through thoughtful engineering

 

Requirements

Must Have

  • Recent hands-on experience delivering and supporting CRD OMS in a buy-side production environment
  • Strong C# / .NET engineering experience building and supporting production services
  • Working knowledge of FIX protocol, including session management, order lifecycle and production issue resolution
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving live trading system incidents with permanent remediation
  • Strong SQL Server / T-SQL skills (data modelling, performance tuning, troubleshooting)
  • Experience integrating vendor platforms with internal services and downstream systems
  • Demonstrated ability to improve stability, monitoring and operational robustness in complex environments

 

The idea candidate will demonstrate the following expected skills and behaviours:

Delivers

  • Delivers Results Is reliable and delivers consistent, accurate, organized and client-ready work in a timely manner with a sense of urgency; is able to expertly multi-task without sacrificing a high standard of work product and output; identifies ways to improve products / processes / procedures to drive efficiencies and output
  • Innovates: Consistently looks for better solutions versus acceptance of existing processes; Identifies and introduces new perspectives to drive change; is open to diverse viewpoints; promotes cutting- edge thinking and solutions; encourages adoption of best- practices

Connects

  • Builds Relationships: Is considered a valued, respectful and inclusive partner to stakeholders; proactively manages strong internal / external partnerships and identifies opportunities to build and strengthen relationships; contributes and celebrates the Firm's and others' success
  • Influences for Outcome: Understands what's important, including preference, value and motivation, to the person or people being influenced; listens to find common ground, and tailors the message to articulate "what's in it for them"

Leads

  • Leads by Example with Team Mentality: Exhibits strong work ethic and sets example for others; is enthusiastic and optimistic; is accommodating of others and prioritizes team goals while seeking opportunities to improve cohesion and to celebrate team success; seeks opportunities to continuously learn and build skills
  • Engages with Feedback: Seeks ways to continually develop self and others; contributes to the development of others through honest, real time and constructive feedback

 

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