Investment and Trading Technology

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/

Work Mode: Hybrid (3/2)

Shift timings: 1PM-10PM or 2PM-11PM

Role purpose. We are seeking a senior engineer to build new applications, modernize existing platforms, and design integrations across our investment technology environment. The role will deliver cloud-based solutions on Microsoft Azure and will also help connect the Charles River Development investment management platform with internal and external systems.

Core expertise

.NET engineering, application development and modernization, systems integration, messaging, Microsoft Azure

Domain

Investment management, order management, trading, compliance, and investment data

Platform experience

Broad investment technology experience; Charles River IMS or CRD experience is highly desirable

What You Will Do

·         Design, build, test, deploy, and support new applications for portfolio management, trading, compliance, risk, data, and other investment technology functions.

·         Modernize existing applications by improving architecture, user experience, scalability, maintainability, security, deployment, and cloud readiness.

·         Build secure and resilient applications and services using C#, modern .NET, REST APIs, SQL, and Azure-native technologies.

·         Design and develop integration services connecting CRD and other investment platforms with security master, accounting, data, risk, reporting, and external service providers.

·         Develop event-driven and message-based integrations using technologies such as Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, Kafka, MQ, or comparable enterprise messaging platforms.

·         Implement integrations using APIs, message queues, database interfaces, managed file transfer, SFTP, and batch processes when appropriate.

·         Support investment-industry protocols and workflows, including FIX, SWIFT, trade and order messages, positions, cash, security reference data, allocations, and settlement instructions.

·         Partner with investment teams, business analysts, CRD, implementation consultants, and internal engineering teams to translate business workflows into supportable technical solutions.

·         Establish reusable integration patterns, data contracts, error handling, reconciliation, observability, and operational controls.

·         Troubleshoot production issues across interconnected systems, identify root causes quickly, and implement durable fixes.

·         Contribute to architecture reviews, code reviews, automated testing, CI CD pipelines, cloud security, and engineering standards.

·         Use firm-approved AI-assisted development tools to accelerate solution design, coding, testing, documentation, application modernization, troubleshooting, and code review while maintaining security, data protection, and human oversight.

·         Create clear technical documentation, interface specifications, support procedures, and transition materials.

Required Experience and Skills

·         Eight or more years of software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on work with enterprise systems integration.

·         Strong C# and .NET development skills, including service design, asynchronous programming, dependency injection, testing, performance tuning, and production support.

·         Experience designing and delivering enterprise applications using sound architecture, reusable components, automated testing, and maintainable engineering practices.

·         Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including several of the following: App Service, Functions, Service Bus, Event Hubs, API Management, Key Vault, Azure SQL, SQL Managed Instance, Storage, Data Factory, Monitor, Application Insights, or Kubernetes.

·         Strong understanding of REST APIs, messaging patterns, event-driven architecture, integration security, identity, encryption, retries, idempotency, and fault tolerance.

·         Experience with SQL Server, data modeling, query optimization, stored procedures, and high-volume transactional or investment data.

·         Experience building CI CD pipelines and automated tests using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tooling.

·         Practical experience using AI coding assistants and agentic development tools across the software development lifecycle, with the ability to evaluate, test, secure, and take ownership of AI-generated code.

·         Ability to diagnose complex issues that span applications, messages, networks, databases, and external vendors.

·         Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work directly with global technology and investment stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

·         Hands-on experience with Charles River IMS or CRD, particularly interfaces, data services, order and trade workflows, compliance, positions, cash, security master, or downstream integration.

·         Experience with another institutional investment platform such as Aladdin, SimCorp, Bloomberg AIM, Allvue, or a comparable OMS or PMS.

·         Experience modernizing legacy desktop or monolithic applications into web-based, service-oriented, or cloud-native solutions.

·         Experience using AI to analyze and modernize legacy applications, generate automated tests, improve technical documentation, identify defects, and increase developer productivity.

·         Experience with React, TypeScript, AG Grid, or another modern web application framework is beneficial.

·         Knowledge of public fixed income, bank loans, derivatives, foreign exchange, or private credit workflows.

·         Experience integrating with custodians, accounting platforms, market data providers, trading venues, data lakes, or enterprise reporting platforms.

·         Familiarity with Azure landing zones, infrastructure as code, containers, Kubernetes, and modern observability practices.

·         Experience operating business-critical investment systems with global users and time-sensitive trading or compliance processes.

What Success Looks Like

·         Rapidly develops a working understanding of the firm’s investment workflows, applications, data, and technology landscape.

·         Delivers valuable new applications and practical modernization improvements to existing platforms.

·         Delivers reliable, secure integrations that are observable, supportable, and reusable across the platform.

·         Reduces manual file handling, point-to-point dependencies, and recurring production issues.

·         Becomes a trusted technical partner to investment, trading, compliance, operations, and data teams.

·         Raises engineering quality through strong coding practices, documentation, automation, and thoughtful technical leadership.

Candidate Profile

The strongest candidate will combine deep engineering ability with practical integration experience and an understanding of how investment systems exchange orders, trades, positions, cash, securities, and compliance data. This is a broad investment technology engineering role. CRD experience is highly desirable, but the candidate must also be capable of building new applications and modernizing existing ones using .NET and Azure.

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.