Freelance Technology Recruitment Consultant

Description Summary

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) isa diversified global investment firm founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder, and Taylor O'Malley. With over $32 billion in assets undermanagement, BAM employs more than 2,000 people across 23 offices in the U.S. and Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The firm’s investment teams span five strategies, including Equities Long/Short, Fixed Income & Macro, Commodities, Multi-Asset Arbitrage, and Systematic. Balyasny’s mission is to deliver to its investors absolute, uncorrelated returns in all market environments.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Are you a software engineer with a passion for technology and a knack for solving complex problems? Join our dynamic team in Singapore as an Engineer, where you'll play a pivotal role in designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining our critical trade management system. Our primary development is in Rust, and you'll also work with and support C#/.NET components where appropriate.

We are leveraging Rust to maximize throughput and reliability, minimize memory usage, and ultimately reduce compute and memory costs across our AWS environment (including serverless workloads). You'll work on distributed systems and high-volume processing, collaborating with talented engineers across the globe.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Innovate and Enhance: Design and build Rust-based, multithreaded, high-volume trade flow processing systems.

• Interoperate: Integrate with existing C#/.NET services and contribute to those codebases as needed.

• Performance & Cost: Profile and optimize latency, memory usage, and resource footprints to reduce AWS costs.

• Decision Making: Make independent decisions while effectively mitigating risks.

• Ownership Mentality: Take full ownership of all aspects of our trade management systems.

• Fast-Paced Environment: Thrive in a fast-paced setting, balancing second-line support with strategic development responsibilities.

• Global Collaboration: Work closely with engineers in the UK, Poland, New York, and Hong Kong to deliver robust solutions.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in a formal enterprise-level development environment.

• Technical Skills:

o Strong expertise in Rust/ JAVA/ C# (async/await, concurrency, memory/ownership model, multi-threaded programming) and solid software design skills.

o Able to use C# and .NET Core to read, support, and contribute to .NET services where needed.

o Proven experience in building connected, service-oriented applications (e.g., REST/gRPC, microservices).

o 5+ years’ experience with enterprise messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS).

o Experience with AWS, including serverless technologies (e.g., Lambda) and an understanding of how performance and memory optimizations translate to cost savings.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas clearly to various audiences.

• DevOps Knowledge: Experience with JIRA, Git, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Agile Development: Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and best practices.
• Test-Driven Development: Experience with behavior-driven and test-driven development approaches; exposure to Rust testing frameworks such as proptest or quickcheck would be advantageous.
• Full-Stack Development: Working knowledge of modern web and mobile development frameworks, including React.js and Angular.
• Financial Markets Knowledge: Understanding of the FIX protocol and Microsoft SQL Server, along with familiarity with U.S. and international equities, fixed income, and commodity markets.
• Post-Trade Lifecycle: Awareness of post-trade lifecycle processes and related operational workflows.

WHY JOIN US

• Meaningful Impact: Play a key role in building and enhancing critical systems that support our trading operations.
• Career Development: Broaden your exposure to the business and operational aspects of trading and post-trade processing.
• Collaborative Culture: Join a high-performing, supportive team that values innovation, partnership, and continuous improvement.
• Global Connectivity: Work closely with engineering colleagues across the UK, Poland, New York, and Hong Kong.

About the Role

We are seeking a visionary and execution-oriented Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company's global technology strategy, architecture, engineering delivery, infrastructure, security, and innovation agenda. The CTO will play a critical role in shaping the future of our fintech platform, driving scalable technology development across payments, digital assets, card issuance, lending, treasury, compliance, and financial services infrastructure.

As a member of the executive leadership team, the CTO will work closely with Product, Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Business leaders to build world-class technology capabilities that support rapid business growth, regulatory requirements, and global expansion.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Leadership & Strategy

• Define and execute the company's long-term technology vision, roadmap, and architecture strategy.
• Lead technology decisions across platform engineering, product engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI, and data.
• Ensure technology investments align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and growth plans.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and competitive advantage.

Engineering Management

• Build, lead, and scale high-performing engineering teams across multiple locations.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, SDLC processes, and quality assurance frameworks.
• Drive agile delivery methodologies and improve engineering productivity and execution excellence.
• Develop succession plans and leadership capabilities within engineering teams.

Platform Architecture & Scalability

• Design and oversee highly available, secure, and scalable financial technology infrastructure.
• Lead architecture decisions for:Payments and acquiring systemsCross-border remittance platformsCard issuing and processingDigital asset infrastructureTreasury and liquidity managementLending platformsAPI and embedded finance solutions
• Ensure systems are built with scalability, resilience, and regulatory compliance in mind.

Information Security & Risk Management

• Establish enterprise-wide cybersecurity strategies and governance frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and audit requirements across all jurisdictions.
• Oversee business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and incident response programs.
• Partner with Compliance and Risk teams to maintain robust operational controls.

Product & Business Partnership

• Collaborate with Product Management to deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Support business expansion initiatives by enabling technology capabilities required for new products, licenses, and markets.
• Act as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on technology-related opportunities and risks.

Data, AI & Innovation

• Drive adoption of AI, machine learning, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
• Build scalable data platforms and analytics capabilities.
• Explore emerging technologies to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

• Manage relationships with strategic technology vendors, cloud providers, system integrators, and partners.
• Participate in board, investor, regulator, and client discussions related to technology strategy and capabilities.
• Oversee technology budgeting, resource allocation, and cost optimization initiatives.

Requirements

Experience

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience, including 5+ years in a CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, or equivalent executive role.
• Proven experience scaling technology organizations in fintech, payments, banking, digital assets, financial infrastructure, or high-growth technology companies.
• Strong understanding of regulated financial services environments.
• Experience building and operating mission-critical, high-volume transaction systems.
• Demonstrated success leading geographically distributed engineering teams.

Technical Expertise

• Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Experience with:Public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)Microservices architectureAPI ecosystemsDevOps and CI/CD frameworksData platforms and analyticsCybersecurity and infrastructure resilience
• Knowledge of payments, card schemes, digital assets, treasury, or banking systems is highly preferred.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Strong strategic thinking and business acumen.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to balance innovation, speed, and risk management.
• Proven track record of attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent.
• Experience working with regulators, auditors, and enterprise clients is an advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience obtaining and supporting regulated financial licenses (e.g., Payment Institution, EMI, MSO, SFC, TCSP, Digital Asset, Banking).
• Experience leading engineering teams across Asia-Pacific markets.
• Background in fintech infrastructure, embedded finance, digital assets, payments, or banking technology.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• MBA or equivalent business qualification is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• Build a world-class technology organization capable of supporting global scale.
• Deliver highly reliable, secure, and compliant financial infrastructure.
• Accelerate product delivery while maintaining engineering excellence.
• Enable successful launch of new products, licenses, and markets.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Job Description

· Help define the technology roadmap and standards for database technologies covering traditional RDBMSs as well as modern NoSQL / specialized databases

· Implement and maintain full operational lifecycle procedures from deployment, to maintenance/patching, backup/recovery and decomm using extensive automation

· Provide 24x7 operational support of database systems with responsibility for uptime, overall system performance, identifying root cause and implementing improvements to avoid recurrence

· Perform security compliance activities, e.g. security reviews, implementing security controls, logging etc.

· Provide end-to-end support and advisory including support required by application developers

· Any relevant ad-hoc duties

Requirements

· Possess a degree in Information Technology or related fields with good experience in multiple data or database centric roles

· Strong understanding of database concepts covering primary MySQL and secondary Microsoft SQL server.

· Experience is required in the following areas:

o Strong understanding of operational processes and automation

o Shell scripting, ideally using Python

o Performance, capacity planning and database/query tuning.

· The ideal candidate will have:

o Experience working with Continuous Integration and Delivery and how it impacts persistent data tiers

o Experience working with other infrastructure teams / technologies

o Demonstrable experience supporting critical database infrastructure

· Strong logical and analytical skills with the proven ability to learn new subjects quickly

kshama.raj@blueocean.systems
+91 9833964181

This role is part of our strategic transformation initiative, led and managed directly by our organization. The project focuses on designing, developing, and modernizing a suite of software applications that support core business operations and improve user experience.

Responsibilities

• Translation of business requirements from internal stakeholders in high quality Application Design.
• Analyze and translate business requirements into documentation, product rules and draft concise and detailed technical and functional solution documents for development
• Ensure the completeness of the business requirements and add value by proposing best-in-class solutions.
• Deep understanding of the private banking modules like SC, DX, SY, Corporate actions and accounting/ reporting modules
• Implementation experience of the SWIFT messaging, interfacing patterns, STP processes, order-processing flows
• Working with the Business users and Product owners for different strategic solutions

Skills/Requirement

• Design and develop applications using Temenos Products.
• Strong hands-on experience in ITX latest versions.
• 3 to 4 years of working experience with TAP integration.
• Strong in Unix shell scripting and Oracle Query Writing.
• Experience in integrating ITX with MQ/KAFKA
• Knowledge of TAP data mode.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

PERSOL Singapore Pte Ltd • EA License No. 01C4394 • EA Registration No. R1551626 (SUJA THERESA FRANCIS)

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Job Responsibilities

• Respond to IT requests from all emails, portal, and telephone within the agreed targets.

• Perform troubleshooting and initial diagnostics of assigned IT tickets, including remote connection to end user devices using remote access tools.

• Communicate clearly to users in a timely and polite manner and keep the end user-informed of the progress of IT requests at all appropriate times.

• Manage creation, modification, and deletion of users account management (FTP, Active Directory, file permissions) and perform clean-up projects of user profiles, files, email accounts.

• Supporting application such as Microsoft Lync/Skype for Business, conferencing tools such as GoToMeeting, Microsoft Outlook and email archiving tools.

• Provide basic PC installations and configuration tasks.

Job Requirement

• 2-3 years working experience in a computer related support or and IT operational environment.

• One or more recognised industry certification in PC, Network and Server support (Comptia A+, Server +, Network +, MCP in Windows 7/8/10/11).

• Good written and communication skills in English.

• Good interpersonal skills, with a focus on listening and questioning skills.

• Good problem-solving abilities and ability to work under own initiative.

• Maintain adequate knowledge of operating systems and application software.

• Experience with configuring and supporting any version of Windows Desktop (7, 8,10,11).

• Experience with configuring and supporting Microsoft Office 2013/2016 and/or Office 365.

• Some basis experience with supporting physical networking is desirable but not essential.

• Singaporean or Singapore PR is preferred.

Work Environment

• Office environment
• Must be able to work at customer’s site based on the assigned project deployments
• Work-life balance
• Flexible working arrangement
• Free access to office building facilities ie swimming pool, gym rooms, tennis court and BBQ pit

Salary Range : $4000 to $5800 with mobile reimbursement claim max up to $80 and Corporate Grab transport account for travelling related to work purposes. There will be a 12 months' Service Commitment Bonus equivalent of 1 month salary.