What are the responsibilities and job description for the US Equities Application Support Engineer position at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.?
As an Equity Application Support Engineer at BAM, you will:
- Support Equities investment staff who leverage a full stack of Equities focused applications, including Equity 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
- Document common support issues, trade flows and procedures on Confluence
- Support other geographic locations e.g., monitor jobs running overnight in Asia, EU and US
- 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
To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be:
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced demanding environment, facing off in-person to key stakeholders
- Driven to integrate with the broader technology organization to avoid operation in a silo
- Self-motivated with a passion for perfection
- An ambitious self-starter with a hunger to generate positive impact
- Able to multi-task and excel in a fast-paced trading environment
To be considered a good technical fit, you must have:
- 8 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 protocol
- Exposure to support of Linux, C , C#, Java, Python based applications
- Experience troubleshooting market and static data related issues that impact trade flow
- Familiarity with enterprise scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch, Airflow, Control-M, AutoSys
- Experience using/building monitoring on platforms like ITRS Geneos, Zabbix, LogicMonitor
