Lead Production Engineer, Operations and Finance Technology

About the role

BAM is in a period of rapid technology transition. Our Global Production Engineering organization supports the platforms and workflows that enable Operations and Finance across the firm. This role will own a significant technical domain spanning trade booking, position management, accounting, reference data, treasury, portfolio management, and downstream data distribution. As a Lead Production Engineer, you will be a senior technical individual contributor leading technical direction and delivery across a broad domain without direct people-management responsibility. The role operates within a global follow-the-sun support model and requires clear communication, sound judgment, and a proactive approach to improving system stability, operational controls, and service quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction, operational health, and support model for a significant Operations and Finance technology domain.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex production issues across applications, databases, infrastructure, messaging, integrations, and workflows.
• Support critical business processes, including trade capture, position management, P&L delivery, accounting, reconciliations, reference data, treasury, and downstream data loads.
• Lead delivery across cross-functional initiatives from requirements and design through implementation, production readiness, and ongoing support.
• Set standards for operational readiness, documentation, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and production support.
• Improve observability using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, ITRS Geneos, Prometheus, and AlertManager.
• Support integrations and connectivity, including APIs, message queues, FIX, vendor feeds, managed file transfer, certificates, SSH keys, IP allowlisting, and firewall coordination.
• Configure and optimize automated workflows and dependencies using tools such as ActiveBatch and Airflow.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to identify risks, manage trade-offs, and improve platform stability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in the global follow-the-sun support model, including regional handovers and rotational evening and weekend escalation support.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience supporting financial technology within a hedge fund, investment bank, asset manager, or financial technology provider.
• Proven experience owning a significant technical domain, platform, or cross-team initiative.
• Strong knowledge of trade operations, accounting, portfolio management, reference data, treasury, or related financial systems.
• Strong troubleshooting experience across applications, databases, infrastructure, integrations, and operational workflows.
• Experience with .NET, Python, SQL Server, enterprise messaging platforms, and scripting technologies such as Python or PowerShell.
• Experience with scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch or Airflow.
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows administration.
• Experience supporting reconciliations, exception management, and operational controls in trading, middle-office, or fund-accounting environments.
• Experience working with Agile Development teams and production environments within an ITIL framework.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical risks, constraints, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Relevant college degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and SRE practices.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging, Splunk, Grafana, or ITRS Geneos.
• Experience with AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, Snowflake, or Tableau.
• Familiarity with hedge fund operations, prime brokerage, fund accounting, Advent Geneva, Arcesium, Northern Trust, or PortfolioOne.
• Experience supporting data warehouses and downstream data distribution platforms.

What We Value

• End-to-end ownership of systems, services, and technical workstreams.
• Strong technical judgment and sound business and operational understanding.
• Clear communication, effective stakeholder management, and accountability through delivery.
• A focus on measurable improvements in stability, resilience, and service quality.
• Commitment to technical standards, operational discipline, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.