Job Description
Our Company
As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.
Oaktree is committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.
Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.
For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/
Summary
Oaktree is looking for a Tech Lead to join the Fund Applications team. The ideal candidate will play a hands-on role to architect, design and modernize the technology systems that we rely on every day, as well as build and manage these systems to solve business issues effectively. Oaktree is on a multi-year journey to enhance our technology landscape by adopting modern tools and leveraging modern hosting solutions such as the public clouds. This job will directly impact how the Fund applications development community creates software that enhances our business outcome. The ability to identify key areas for improvement and develop action plans accordingly, leading the solutioning and technical execution is vital for this role. The candidate will be hands-on 80+% of the time.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or other related STEM subjects
- 12+ years of experience working as a full-time software developer and 5+ years as a Tech lead
- Experience in uplifting monolithic technology architecture to microservices, as well as understanding of event driven architecture.
- Experience building interactive web applications and an interest in adopting modern technologies.
- Experience with relational and/or non-relational database technologies.
- Excellent programming and software design skills in object orientated programming.
- Experience in developing and delivering API-based solutions.
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools and containerization technologies
- Demonstrated experience working in Agile team settings.
Responsibilities:
- This is a hands-on role as an individual contributor and responsibilities include technical leadership, insight, and mentoring to peers; provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers.
- Drive the end-to-end solutions architecture design and ownership and articulate the design to the product owners, agile teams, and leadership.
- Provide technical oversight, leading software development tasks such as peer and quality reviews of specifications, design documents and code review.
- Develop and collaborate on establishing architecture standards, patterns, and practices to be used repeatedly across solutions in the Fund applications team.
- Be a subject matter expert for development teams as part of implementation.
- Document and maintain product architecture for solutions architecture and technology portfolio; make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives.
- Act as technical lead for a small team of developers, guiding them in design, implementation, and DevOps practices.
Core Technical Skills
- .NET Core / C# – Advanced-level development and API design.
- Azure Cloud – Hands-on experience with key services including:
- Azure App Services, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Azure Blob Storage, Event Hub, Service Bus
- Event-Driven Architecture – Proficiency with Kafka (or similar technologies) for message streaming and data distribution.
- Microservices Architecture – Proven experience designing and deploying loosely coupled, service-oriented systems.
- API Development – Expertise in building RESTful APIs, versioning, authentication (OAuth, JWT), and documentation (Swagger/OpenAPI).
- DevOps / CI-CD – Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, ARM templates, or Terraform for deployment automation.
- Data Integration – Strong understanding of data pipelines, transformation, and event-based data flows.
Personal Attributes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required to work with business and development teams
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
- Personal growth mindset with a desire to keep up with modern technologies
- Willingness to take initiative and commitment to project status transparency
Equal Opportunity Employment Policy
- Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.
Equal Opportunity Employment Policy
Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.
For positions based in Los Angeles
For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
