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About the Role

We are hiring a CRD & Trading Systems Senior Developer to join our global Trading Systems team in London. This senior hands-on engineering role focuses on enhancing, stabilizing, 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 requires strong production engineering discipline, comfort operating within vendor platform constraints, and a mindset focused on reliability and long-term platform evolution.

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

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

Skills

C#
.NET
FIX protocol
SQL Server
T-SQL
Data modelling
Performance tuning
Troubleshooting
CI/CD pipelines
Release management
Automation

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP is a global investment management firm founded in 1983.
Headquartered in New York, the firm has offices in Philadelphia, London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Mumbai, and Abu Dhabi.
The Firm invests globally and opportunistically across the capital structure in a variety of credit and equity strategies, as well as real assets.
They apply a multi-dimensional, research-driven investment process to evaluate and execute diverse transactions across asset classes, geographies, and market cycles.
They target complex, global situations where their experience and expertise can unlock value.
They bring together exceptional people from different disciplines and backgrounds who are energized by the challenges of navigating complexity.
They look for people who demonstrate exceptional critical thinking skills, innate curiosity, creativity, and embrace diverse viewpoints to calibrate their decisions.