Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $189 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. The firm has over 1200 employees and offices in 22 cities worldwide.

We are 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.

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Responsibilities

Oaktree is looking for a Solutions Engineer to join the Investment and Trading Technology (ITT) group. 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 ITT development community creates software that enhance our business outcome. The ideal candidate will know several software development languages and be able to translate abstract concepts to technical outcomes. The candidate will develop effective and productive working relationships with peer technologists, analysts and key business stakeholders including Investment Professionals, Trade Support, and like groups, to effect change and drive successful outcomes via an Agile/DevOps delivery model. Creating leverage through effective leadership of offshore resources will be key to our success. The candidate will be hands-on 90+% of the time.

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 ITT 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.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience working as a full-time software developer.
Experience in uplifting monolithic technology architecture to microservices.
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
Experience writing asynchronous code.

Tech Stack

Knowledge in existing technology stack including .NET implementations. Azure and AWS Cloud, MS SQL Server, Azure DevOps CICD pipelines, MS Visual Studio IDE
Knowledge in future state technology architecture such as web API services, Java, Springboot, GraphQL, Angular, Bootstrap, JSON, MongoDB, Python, Secure Gateways, Messaging Systems (Kafka), etc.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or other related STEM subjects

Base Salary Range

$170,000 - $200,000

In addition to a competitive base salary, you will be eligible to receive discretionary bonus incentives, a comprehensive benefits package and a flexible work arrangement. The base salary offered will be commensurate with experience and/or qualifications, industry knowledge and expertise, as well as prior training and education.

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.

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