The Engineer, Treasury & Cash Management sits within Carlyle's Treasury & Payments Technology team, reporting to the Treasury & Payments Lead, and contributes hands-on to the implementation, enhancement, and ongoing operation of the firm's treasury management system (TMS). The team's initial focus is the TMS rollout in support of Carlyle AlpInvest, going live this year. Over time, the platform is expected to expand to serve Carlyle's Global Private Equity and Global Credit segments and the firm's Corporate Treasury function - making this a build-once, scale-many opportunity at the center of how the firm manages cash, liquidity, and payments.
This is a hands-on engineering role at the center of Carlyle's treasury technology stack: an engineer who partners directly with Treasury and Finance stakeholders, owns delivery and ongoing operation of the TMS platform they support, and is accountable for the outcomes the system produces - accurate cash positioning, reliable payments, clean reporting.
You will embed with Treasury, Finance, and operations partners supporting Carlyle AlpInvest - and, over time, the broader investment segments and Corporate Treasury - to translate treasury and cash management requirements into configured, integrated, well-tested software that goes into daily use.
You will own the TMS implementation work in flight and the enhancements and integrations that follow: bank connectivity, accounting and custodian feeds, cash positioning and forecasting, payment workflows, and the reporting that the business runs on. You will work with leading commercial TMS platforms (Hazeltree, Kyriba, GTreasury, or comparable) and the surrounding integration and data tooling required to make them work end to end.
You will collaborate closely with Finance stakeholders, end users, and offshore engineering and operations partners - communicating clearly, setting expectations, and earning trust across a distributed team.
What Success Looks Like
In the first 12 months, you will have helped take the AlpInvest TMS live and through its first cycles of daily use, owned the integrations and enhancements that turn the platform into a reliable part of how Treasury operates, and earned trust as the go-to engineer for the Finance and Treasury stakeholders who depend on the system. Your work will be visible at senior levels of the firm.
In-Office Requirement: 4 days a week
TMS Delivery & Enhancement (≈50%)
- Partner with Treasury, Finance, and operations stakeholders to translate cash management, liquidity, and payments requirements into configured, integrated TMS functionality.
- Own delivery on assigned workstreams of the AlpInvest TMS implementation - configuration, integrations, data migration, testing, cutover, and adoption - in partnership with your manager, the vendor team, and offshore contributors.
- Design and build integrations between the TMS and Carlyle's broader ecosystem: banks (REST APIs, SFTP, ISO 20022 messaging), accounting systems, custodians, fund administrators, and downstream reporting and data platforms.
- Build treasury reporting and dashboards - cash positions, liquidity, forecasts, payment status, exception monitoring - in Power BI, Tableau, or the platform's native reporting layer.
- Extend the platform over time to support additional business segments (Global Private Equity, Global Credit) and Corporate Treasury use cases as the footprint grows.
- Move at the speed the business needs: scope tightly, ship in weeks, and harden through real use rather than over-engineering up front.
Operate & Support (≈50%)
- Own the day-to-day reliability of the TMS and its integrations - monitoring, alerting, issue triage, root cause analysis, and incremental hardening of the components users depend on.
- Provide hands-on support to Finance and Treasury end users: investigate questions, resolve data and configuration issues, and improve the system based on what you learn from how it is actually used.
- Manage and review work performed by offshore engineering and operations contractors, setting clear expectations, reviewing deliverables, and raising the technical bar across the extended team.
- Partner with infrastructure, data, and security teams to ensure the TMS and its integrations meet enterprise standards for observability, controls, audit, and SOC requirements.
- Document configurations, integrations, runbooks, and known issues so the platform stays operable as the team grows and use cases expand.
- Stay current on TMS vendor roadmaps, treasury technology trends, and adjacent tooling, and bring promising capabilities to your manager and the team for evaluation.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor's degree, required
- Concentration in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, physics, data science, or a related technical field, preferred
- Master's degree, preferred
Professional Experience
- 5+ years of overall relevant hands-on engineering experience, required
- 3+ years hands-on experience implementing, configuring, or supporting a leading commercial TMS - Hazeltree, Kyriba, GTreasury, or comparable - in production, required
- Strong experience designing and building integrations between enterprise systems using REST APIs and SFTP - ideally connecting a TMS to banks, accounting systems, custodians, or fund administrators.
- Hands-on experience with SWIFT for bank connectivity - message types (MT 940 / 942 / 101 / 103 / 202 and equivalent ISO 20022 pain / camt / pacs messages), service bureaus or SWIFT Alliance, and end-to-end payment and statement flows, required.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills, with experience handling transactional and time-series data at scale and building production reporting and dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, or comparable BI tools.
- Strong coding fundamentals in Python (preferred) or another general-purpose language, with hands-on experience deploying and operating workloads on AWS or Azure.
- Working knowledge of treasury operations - cash management and forecasting, liquidity, payments (wire, ACH, FX), bank account management, and intercompany flows - sufficient to converse fluently with Treasury and Finance stakeholders and translate their requirements into system configuration and integrations.
- Experience working directly with business users to scope and ship software in regulated, high stakes financial services environments - with auditable controls, change management, and SOC / SOX considerations.
- Experience working with and managing offshore engineering or operations contractors as part of an extended delivery team.
- Production support experience for business-critical systems - incident triage, root cause analysis, monitoring and alerting, on-call rotations, and disciplined change and release management in environments where downtime or errors have direct business impact.
Competencies & Attributes
- Builder's instinct under ambiguity. You start by shipping, measure progress in working software not slides, and can turn a vague business problem into a working prototype in a week.
- Customer obsession. You sit with users, reimagine workflows alongside them, and ship solutions that are functional in the real world rather than theoretical on a slide.
- Systems thinking. You can hold the end-to-end treasury workflow in your head - from bank statement to ledger entry - and reason about how a configuration or integration change ripples through the system.
- Operational rigor. You think about controls, reconciliations, exception handling, and auditability as you build - not as an afterthought - and you know that in treasury, a quiet system that runs cleanly every day is worth more than a flashy one that surprises you on the wrong day.
- Strong collaborator. You work well with business stakeholders and engineering peers, ask the right questions, communicate trade-offs clearly, and bring people along on the choices you make.
- Project discipline. You can run a workstream end-to-end without a PMO holding your hand - break work into milestones, track dependencies, surface risks early, drive status with stakeholders, and bring things in on time.
- Curious and self-directed. You look beyond assigned tasks to spot improvements, suggest alternatives, and contribute to how the team builds.
- Vendor management. You hold software vendors and implementation partners to their commitments - reading the roadmap, opening the right tickets, escalating when needed, and getting the most out of the platform without becoming dependent on the vendor for every change.
- Pride in the work. You want to own a critical system that real people depend on every day, do the work well, and see the platform you build scale across the firm.
Benefits/Compensation
The compensation range for this role is specific to Washington, DC, and takes into account a wide range of factors including but not limited to the skill sets required/preferred; prior experience and training; licenses and/or certifications.
The anticipated base salary range for this role is $160,000 to $180,000.
In addition to the base salary, the hired professional will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package spanning retirement benefits, health insurance, life insurance and disability, paid time off, paid holidays, family planning benefits and various wellness programs. Additionally, the hired professional may also be eligible to participate in an annual discretionary incentive program, the award of which will be dependent on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Due to the high volume of candidates, please be advised that only candidates selected to interview will be contacted by Carlyle.
