Front-Office Trading Tech Lead — Principal Consultant

Charles River Development; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles River Development seeks a Principal Consultant to assess client needs and translate them into robust solutions across CRIMS, infrastructure, and integration. You will guide multi‑project engagements, design end‑to‑end architectures, and mentor junior consultants while collaborating with sales on pre‑sales and POC work.

The role emphasizes hands‑on technical leadership, strong communication, and a track record of delivering complex, multi‑tier deployments for financial institutions in the

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in business or technical field including Finance, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science.
• 8–10 years of progressively responsible experience in the Financial / Software Services industry (Financial market information systems background preferred).
• The ability to travel to client sites throughout the United States and Canada; travel of 10-20% typical.
• Key words: investment trading, fixed income, equities, derivatives, fx, equities, front-office, buyside.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the day‑to‑day operations of client engagements and lead projects to completion within scope and SOW.
• Gather, analyze and communicate solutions to both clients and internal teams; including strong technical solution design skills from presales to implementation, providing detailed assessments and recommendations.
• Direct and provide guidance to less experienced consultants on implementations and identify opportunities to allocate resources as needed. Demonstrate advanced understanding of Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS) and technical proficiency in one of the following solutions: Infrastructure, Performance Tuning, Development, Advanced Configuration, Trouble Shooting and Integration.
• Exhibit strong technical solution design skills from pre‑sales to implementation of client solutions by influencing design with concrete facts and proven results in order to maintain system integrity for both client and CRD.
• Ensure engagement team identifies, documents and drives project resolutions for project issues.
• Mentor team of consultants assigned to projects.
• Partner with CRD’s sales teams in order to contribute to sales presentations and proof‑of‑concept projects; analyze and evaluate client requirements to demonstrate the potential of CRIMS; design prototypes and proof of concepts that best fit the client’s needs.
• Build effective working relationships within CRD and with clients, manage difficult situations and influence key decision makers.
• Strategically solve problems by recognizing long term solutions across multiple projects.

Skills

Java

C#

RDBMS

ETL Tools

Windows/Unix

Source Control

Training

Azure

Snowflake

Communication

Project Mgmt

Analytical

Education

BA/BS degree in business or technical field

8-10 years in Financial / Software Services

Tools

Tomcat

N-tier architecture

SOAP/XML Messaging (MQ Series, Tibco, MSMQ, Sonic MQ, Open JMS)

Kafka

ETL Tools: Kettle

ETL Tools: Talend

Azure

Snowflake

Subversion

Perforce

Job description

Charles River Development seeks a Principal Consultant to assess client needs and translate them into robust solutions across CRIMS, infrastructure, and integration. You will guide multi‑project engagements, design end‑to‑end architectures, and mentor junior consultants while collaborating with sales on pre‑sales and POC work.

The role emphasizes hands‑on technical leadership, strong communication, and a track record of delivering complex, multi‑tier deployments for financial institutions in the