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Engineer, Commodities Application Support

Engineer, Commodities Application Support

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.Singapore
30+ days ago
Job description

Balyasny is in a period of rapid

technology transition. This exciting role within our Global Support group will provide you with the opportunity to support our Commodities front office applications, data and their integration with middle and back-office systems. The role will have a high level of interaction with the investment staff including Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Analysts, to proactively discover and understand issues and potential workflow / system improvements. The candidate should have a broad knowledge of financial markets and trade lifecycles, and ideally understand research, data, and analysis. The candidate should have technical skills with experience in database and application support. At BAM, you will have the chance to work with some of the smartest and most driven individuals in the industry.

As a Commodities Application Support Engineer at BAM, you will :

  • Enhance, support and maintain the firm’s Commodities front, middle and back-office systems
  • Work as a part of the global Application Support team based in Chicago, New York, London, San Francisco, Houston, Hong Kong and Singapore
  • Proactively engage with PMs, Traders, and Analysts to resolve issues and identify improvement opportunities
  • Document common support issues, trade flows and procedures on Confluence
  • Roll out, setup, and educate end-users on new product implementations
  • Support other geographic locations e.g., monitor jobs running overnight in Asia, EU and US.
  • Work with external vendors technical support teams to resolve issues and deliver strategic enhancements
  • Provide escalation support for other regions, including evenings and weekends, on a rotational basis

To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be :

  • An ambitious self-starter with a hunger for knowledge
  • Keen to share knowledge in a highly collaborative environment
  • Self-motivated with a passion to succeed
  • A strong and efficient communicator
  • Able to multi-task and excel in a fast-paced trading environment

    • To be considered a good technical fit, you must have :

  • 5+ years of experience working with investment banks, asset managers, commodity houses, investment advisors or associated software vendors
  • Thorough understanding of the trade life cycle for Commodities products, such as Gas, Power, Oil, Metals, Ags or Freight. Must be able to discuss details of these products with Portfolio Managers, Analysts and Risk Managers.
  • Experience supporting physical commodities trading
  • 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 supporting Commodities trading platforms such as Trayport Joule, WebICE and EEX
  • Experience supporting CTRM / ETRM platforms such as ION Endur / CXL and Openlink
  • Knowledge of Market Data services – Trayport / B-PIPE / MorningStar
  • Knowledge of Messaging platforms – RabbitMQ / Solace / Kafka
  • SQL experience across various database implementations, including MSSQL
  • Exposure to support of Linux, C++, C#, Python based applications
  • Operate with a high degree of accuracy with close attention to detail
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

    • Do not have all the skills listed above? Have extra skills you think are important that we have not thought of? Please, let us know by applying, and telling us a bit more about yourself and why you think you are qualified!

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