Operations Engineering Associate

Operations Engineering Associate

We at Swissblock are a private investment firm on a mission to lead the way in crypto and cross-asset investing. With a keen understanding that timing is paramount, we employ a systematic approach that combines robust algorithmic trading with exhaustive cross-asset market analysis. We are seeking an operations professional to bring passion and structure to build the foundations of a new company branch. We are partnering with the best solution providers to make the execution and post-trading workflow as transparent and efficient as possible. The overarching goal is to simplify communication and allow our key resources to focus together on problem-solving whilst considering automation.

What You'll Be Doing

As an Operations Engineering Associate, you will be responsible for:

• Building and maintaining automated operations workflows, including trade flow monitoring, reconciliations, exception management, and intraday position integrity checks.
• Developing tools and scripts to streamline repetitive processes across trade capture, reconciliation, margin monitoring, and corporate actions lifecycle.
• Partnering with the tech teams to translate operational requirements into system features, data models, and integration logics.
• Testing new system features, coordinating UAT, documenting workflows, and ensuring smooth production releases with minimal operational risk.
• Collaborating with PMs, traders, and tech teams to implement scalable pipelines, automate reconciliations, and strengthen controls as trading volumes and instruments expand.
• Supporting BAU operational duties include trade capture, reconciliation, resolution of position and trade-related queries, ad-hoc reporting, settlement, compressions, collapses, and corporate actions.

What You'll Bring

- Strong working knowledge of financial markets technology platforms.

- Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, or similar tools to automate workflows, analyze large datasets, and build operational tools.

- Ability to translate operational processes into technical specifications.

- Understanding of APIs, FIX, and file based integrations used in daily trade lifecycle workflows.

- Experience building custom reports, dashboards, alerting logic for reconciliation, break investigation, risk monitoring, or regulatory reporting.

- Proven hands-on experience of at least five years in an operations team with significant flow that includes automated trading.

Personal hands-on experience of at least three years in the following operations procedures for IRS:

• Handling trade capture (i.e., bookings) and booking amendments in a well-known OMS.
• Performing trade settlement, as well as position and PnL reconciliations.
• Conducting standard line-item management for IRS, such as unwinds, collapses and compressions.
• A good understanding of IRS, including associated operations workflows.
• Strong, clear, and concise verbal and written communication skills in English.

Preferred Experience

- A good understanding of CFD, futures, CDS and TRS, including associated operations workflows.

- Experience in collateral management (margin and cash).

- Experience with corporate actions in cash equities.

- Proficiency in German.

Why You Should Apply

At Swissblock, we offer an exciting and diverse environment with flat hierarchies and excellent peers. We are a profitable company with a culture based on responsibility and merit. Empowerment is a key value reflected in our career dynamics, which continuously grow with the business.

In addition to a modern office in Baar, Switzerland, with the flexibility to work remotely in Switzerland, we propose a competitive compensation package, an annual bonus, 25 days of annual leave, progressive social benefits, and engaging company events.