Overview
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Balyasny is in a period of rapid technology transition. This exciting role within our Global Support group will provide you with the opportunity to partner with our Equity investment teams. The role will interact heavily with the entire function from front to back including Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Analysts, to proactively discover and understand issues and workflow / system improvements. The candidate must have a proven understanding of Equity idea to trade lifecycle and associated front to back systems. This role will be primarily focused on building out a new equities investment business under BAM.
As a Senior Equity Application Support 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 Application Support 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 Hudson yards, NYC
To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be :
Ability to operate in a fast-paced demanding environment, prioritize resolution of multiple simultaneous impacting incidentsDriven to integrate with the broader technology organization to avoid operation in a siloSelf-motivated with a passion for perfectionAn ambitious self-starter with a hunger to generate positive impactAble to multi-task and excel in a fast-paced trading environmentTo be considered a good technical fit, you must have :
10+ years of experience supporting an Equities investment / trading desk within investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers or associated software vendorsA 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 methodologiesStrong troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including being able to interpret, understand and troubleshoot internally developed systemsExperience scripting tools in python and / or PowerShell for support purposesProficient with AI and LLMs such as ChatGPT to boost efficiency / productivityExperience supporting OMS / EMS equity platforms such as Flextrade, Virtu Triton, SpiderRockExperience in supporting applications hosted on Windows, Linux, Cloud (Kubernetes, AWS)Knowledge of Messaging platforms – Solace, Kafka, RabbitMQExperience with FIX messaging, trade lifecycle, exception management.Exposure to support of Linux, C++, C#, Java, Python based applicationsExperience troubleshooting market and static data related issues that impact trade flowFamiliarity with enterprise scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch, Airflow, Control-M, AutoSysExperience using / building monitoring on platforms like ITRS Geneos, Zabbix, LogicMonitorSeniority level
Mid-Senior levelEmployment type
Full-timeJ-18808-Ljbffr