Job Description
Senior Trade Operations & Infrastructure Engineer
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Westbury Partners – Sydney NSW
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Full time
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4d ago , from E-Financial Careers Australia
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Own and modernise critical trade operations infrastructure, driving reconciliation, clearing, regulatory reporting, data integrity, automation, and resilient technology across complex financial systems and global teams.
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What You'll Do:
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Take ownership of the technology infrastructure behind critical trade operations. You'll work across reconciliation, clearing, managed-account operations, regulatory reporting, databases, ETL pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and deployment environments.
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You'll inherit an established but diverse technology landscape and play a key role in stabilising, documenting, automating, and continuously improving the systems that support trading operations and business growth.
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Your responsibilities will include:
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Build and maintain reconciliation processes across multiple brokers, formats, and operational workflows.
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Detect, investigate, and resolve trade breaks and discrepancies.
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Support clearing operations across futures, equities, and FX.
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Manage monthly rebalancing, allocations, and fee calculations for managed accounts.
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Maintain data integrity across positions, trades, fees, and allocations in PostgreSQL.
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Develop and maintain regulatory reporting processes, including market-specific requirements and tagging.
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Generate and deliver NAV files to fund administrators.
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Build and support ETL pipelines spanning FTP, S3, Kafka, and batch processing.
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Develop monitoring, alerting, debugging, and replay capabilities across distributed systems.
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Manage containerised deployments, CI/CD pipelines, image repositories, and infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments.




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Collaborate with brokers, administrators, operations teams, and trading desks across multiple international time zones.
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Contribute to the development of a consolidated, reliable trade-data architecture.
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Why Join Us:
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This is an opportunity to own systems where engineering decisions have a direct impact on operational performance, regulatory compliance, data quality, and the organisation's ability to launch and scale new strategies.
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You'll have genuine ownership across application development, data engineering, infrastructure, automation, and production support rather than being confined to a single technical silo.
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About You:
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8+ years of experience in a comparable engineering, trade operations, or financial technology role.
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Strong Kafka knowledge, including producers, consumers, consumer groups, offsets, and event-driven architectures.
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Proven reconciliation experience across multiple systems and counterparties.
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Practical understanding of regulatory reporting and financial-market requirements.
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Strong Docker and CI/CD experience, including GitLab, Nomad, and Artifactory.
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Solid PostgreSQL and database-integrity experience.
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Comfortable working with Python and navigating polyglot environments.
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Go and/or Java reading proficiency is highly desirable.
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Experience with Kafka Streams or comparable stream-processing technologies is advantageous.
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AWS experience across services such as S3, EC2, and EKS is beneficial.
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Fund administration experience is a plus.
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Confident communicating with stakeholders across Sydney, London, and Recent York.
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📌 Senior Trade Operations & Infrastructure Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Westbury Partners
📍 New South Wales