Production Engineer, Finance Tech

Balyasny Asset Management

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Location
Warsaw, Poland
Posted
28 days ago
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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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TL;DR · Production Engineer, Finance Tech

As a Production Engineer, Finance Tech within the Global Production Engineering organization, you will support critical Operations and Finance platforms to ensure accurate trade processing, P&L calculation, and end-of-day accounting. You will manage first- and second-line application support for systems involving trade booking, portfolio management, and treasury while collaborating with internal teams and external vendors to resolve complex production issues across infrastructure and database layers. The role involves building and maintaining observability using the OpenTelemetry stack, integrating data into tools like Loki, Grafana, Splunk, and Prometheus, and optimizing automated jobs via ActiveBatch or Airflow. You will utilize .NET, Python, SQL Server, and PowerShell to troubleshoot systems while managing Kafka, RabbitMQ, or IBM MQ messaging platforms. This role solves critical trade lifecycle challenges within a high-pressure investment environment requiring deep financial markets knowledge.

What you'll do

  • Lead first- and second-line application support for trade booking, accounting, treasury, and other core finance platforms.
  • Ensure the accurate completion of end-of-day accounting processes, including P&L delivery and downstream data loads.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, database, infrastructure, and workflow layers using SQL, Python, and .NET.
  • Manage critical data integrations involving vendor feeds, APIs, message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and FIX connectivity.
  • Design and maintain application observability using the OpenTelemetry stack to improve service health and alerting.
  • Monitor and optimize automated jobs and dependencies using tools like ActiveBatch and Airflow.
  • Manage production connectivity lifecycles including SSH keys, certificates, IP allowlisting, and firewall coordination.
  • Drive improvements in platform stability, resilience, and operational efficiency through SRE and DevOps practices.

What we're looking for

  • Relevant college degree or equivalent professional experience.
  • At least five years of experience working for an investment bank, investment advisor, hedge fund, or financial technology provider.
  • Proven experience leading or building financial technology application support teams in trading, middle-office, and back-office environments.
  • Strong experience supporting trade operations, accounting, portfolio, reference data, treasury, or related financial systems.
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting internally developed systems using .NET, Python, and SQL Server.
  • Strong SQL experience with Microsoft SQL Server and familiarity with NoSQL databases.
  • Experience supporting enterprise messaging platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, or Solace.
  • Experience with scripting (Python, PowerShell), commercial scheduling tools (ActiveBatch, Airflow), and Linux/Windows administration.
  • Experience working with Agile teams and production environments within an ITIL framework.
  • Experience managing application performance, capacity, dependencies, and production bottlenecks.
  • Experience supporting operational reconciliations and exception management in trading or fund-accounting environments.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate across Technology, Operations, Finance, Treasury, and external vendors.
  • Willingness to provide rotational escalation support including evenings and weekends.
  • Experience implementing CI/CD, DevOps, observability, and SRE practices (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Splunk, ITRS Geneos, Grafana, or Jira Service Desk (preferred).
  • Experience supporting enterprise integrations like APIs, message queues, and vendor data feeds (preferred).
  • Familiarity with secure connectivity, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, Snowflake, or Tableau (preferred).
  • Familiarity with hedge fund operations, prime brokerage, fund accounting, or specific industry tools like Advent Geneva (preferred).

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