What are the responsibilities and job description for the Equity Production Engineer position at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.?
As an Equity Production Engineer at BAM, you will:
- Support Equities investment staff who leverage a full stack of applications, including Trading, Position, PnL, Risk, Reporting, Research, and compliance systems.
- Enhance, support, and maintain the firm’s Equity front, middle and back-office systems.
- Work as a part of the global Production Engineering team
- Proactively engage with PMs, Traders, and Analysts to resolve issues and identify improvement opportunities.
- Deliver technical solutions to automate, streamline and integrate using Python, PowerShell & SQL.
- Document common support issues, trade flows and procedures on Confluence
- Employ AI based solutions to improve upon operational efficiency.
- Work with external vendors to resolve issues and deliver strategic enhancements.
- Provide escalation support for other regions, including evenings and weekends, on rotation.
- Face off to the business in-person 4 days a week in NYC
- Proactively monitor and maintain the health, capacity, and performance of trading and business-critical systems, addressing bottlenecks and risks.
- Respond to and resolve production incidents, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, escalation, and post-incident reviews to minimize downtime and drive continuous improvement.
To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be:
- Able to operate in a fast-paced demanding environment, prioritize resolution of multiple simultaneous production requests/incidents.
- Self-motivated with a passion for system reliability and operational excellence
- An ambitious self-starter with a hunger to generate positive impact on system performance.
- Able to multi-task and excel in a fast-paced trading environment with critical system dependencies.
To be considered a good technical fit, you must have:
- 3-5 years of experience supporting an Equities investment/trading desk within investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers or associated software vendors
- A thorough understanding of Equity products e.g. Cash Equities, Futures, Options. Must be able to discuss details with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Analysts, Operations and Risk Managers.
- Experience supporting Production environments within an ITIL framework and Development environments using agile methodologies.
- Strong troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including being able to interpret, understand and troubleshoot internally developed systems.
- Experience scripting tools in python and/or PowerShell for support purposes
- SQL experience across various database implementations, including MSSQL
- Proficient with AI and LLMs such as ChatGPT to boost efficiency/productivity.
- Experience supporting OMS/EMS equity platforms such as FlexTrade, Virtu Triton, SpiderRock
- Experience in supporting applications hosted on Windows, Linux, Cloud (Kubernetes, AWS)
- Knowledge of Messaging platforms – Solace, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Experience with FIX messaging, trade lifecycle, exception management.
- Experience troubleshooting market and static data related issues that impact trade flow.
- Familiarity with enterprise scheduling tools such as Active Batch, Airflow, Control-M, AutoSys
- Experience using/building monitoring on platforms like ITRS Geneos, Zabbix