Manager, Market Data Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, ILLondon, United KingdomNew York, NY
Salary
$225,000–$275,000 / yr
Posted
28 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $250k
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This role pays more than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $151,375–$222,930 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $250k versus about $187k for comparable roles.

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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.

Balyasny Asset Management currently has 59 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$250,000 across 30 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager, Market Data Engineer

As a Manager, Market Data Engineer on the Data Technology team, you will lead, mentor, and build a high-caliber team of developers and analysts to develop enterprise market-data systems. You will design and architect a next-generation platform for capturing, redistributing, and providing access to real-time and historical data across Equities, Macro, Commodities, and Credit. Your daily responsibilities include building scalable, resilient real-time data-processing engines for bars and NBBO, creating SDKs for derived-data calculations, and translating business requirements into production-ready capabilities. You will utilize C++ for low latency development and work with Refinitiv or Bloomberg market-data APIs to support investment research and trade-execution workflows. The role requires expertise in agile SDLC processes to deliver high-quality systems that ensure performance, availability, and recoverability while solving complex data ingestion problems from vendor platforms and internal APIs.

What you'll do

  • Lead, mentor, and build a high-caliber team of developers and analysts.
  • Design and architect next-generation market-data platforms for streaming and historical data.
  • Develop scalable, resilient real-time data-processing and derivation engines for bars and NBBO.
  • Provide SDKs and platform interfaces to enable specialist teams to contribute derived-data calculations.
  • Translate business requirements from investment teams into production-ready capabilities and roadmap execution.
  • Deliver high-quality, production-grade systems that meet strict performance, availability, and recoverability standards.
  • Oversee development projects by defining and operating agile SDLC processes.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of experience leading engineering teams.
  • 5+ years of experience building or operating market-data systems.
  • Experience defining and operating agile SDLC processes to oversee development projects.
  • Hands-on experience developing real-time and historical market-data platforms.
  • Experience with low latency development patterns in C++.
  • Experience supporting investment research and/or trade-execution workflows across multiple asset classes.
  • Experience with Refinitiv, Bloomberg, or comparable enterprise market-data platforms (preferred).

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