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About Balyasny Asset Management
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global multi-manager hedge fund offering diversified investment strategies across equities, macro, commodities, and systematic trading.
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As a Lead Data Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the platforms, pipelines, and data products that power analytics, applications, and investment decision-making across the firm. You will architect scalable, cloud-first solutions while leading small teams to deliver reliable, analytics-ready datasets. Your daily responsibilities include designing ingestion pipelines, data models, and platform services using Python, SQL, Snowflake, and AWS. You will also drive the evolution of a Data Acquisition Platform featuring APIs, plugins, and AI-enabled workflows for metadata generation and natural-language access. Key technical requirements include experience with NoSQL systems, Airflow orchestration, and time-series data. You will establish automated quality frameworks, manage incident response, and mentor engineers through code reviews. This role solves complex problems involving structured, unstructured, market, and alternative datasets to ensure performance, lineage, and operational resilience for the firm's investment operations.