Senior Trade Operations & Infrastructure Lead

Westbury Partners; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Westbury Partners in Sydney seeks an experienced Senior Trade Operations & Infrastructure Engineer to own and modernise the critical trade operations technology stack. You will drive reconciliation, regulatory reporting, data integrity, automation, and resilient cloud/on‑premise infrastructure across global teams.

You will lead the stabilization and automation of an established tech landscape, collaborating with brokers, operations, and trading desks across time zones to scale new strategies

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a comparable engineering, trade operations, or financial technology role.
• Strong Kafka knowledge, including producers, consumers, consumer groups, offsets, and event-driven architectures.
• Proven reconciliation experience across multiple systems and counterparties.
• Practical understanding of regulatory reporting and financial-market requirements.
• Strong Docker and CI/CD experience, including GitLab, Nomad, and Artifactory.
• Solid PostgreSQL and database-integrity experience.
• Comfortable working with Python and navigating polyglot environments.
• Go and/or Java reading proficiency is highly desirable.
• Experience with Kafka Streams or comparable stream-processing technologies is advantageous.
• AWS experience across services such as S3, EC2, and EKS is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the technology infrastructure behind critical trade operations.
• Stabilise, document, automate, and continuously improve the systems supporting trading operations and business growth.
• Build and maintain reconciliation processes across multiple brokers, formats, and workflows.
• Detect, investigate, and resolve trade breaks and discrepancies.
• Support clearing operations across futures, equities, and FX.
• Manage monthly rebalancing, allocations, and fee calculations for managed accounts.
• Maintain data integrity across positions, trades, fees, and allocations in PostgreSQL.
• Develop and maintain regulatory reporting processes, including market-specific requirements and tagging.
• Generate and deliver NAV files to fund administrators.
• Build and support ETL pipelines spanning FTP, S3, Kafka, and batch processing.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, debugging, and replay capabilities across distributed systems.
• Manage containerised deployments, CI/CD pipelines, image repositories, and infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Collaborate with brokers, administrators, operations teams, and trading desks across multiple international time zones.
• Contribute to the development of a consolidated, reliable trade-data architecture.

Skills

Kafka

Reconciliation

Docker

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Python

Go

Java

AWS

Data engineering

Tools

GitLab

Nomad

Artifactory

Kafka Streams

Job description

Westbury Partners in Sydney seeks an experienced Senior Trade Operations & Infrastructure Engineer to own and modernise the critical trade operations technology stack. You will drive reconciliation, regulatory reporting, data integrity, automation, and resilient cloud/on‑premise infrastructure across global teams.

You will lead the stabilization and automation of an established tech landscape, collaborating with brokers, operations, and trading desks across time zones to scale new strategies