Associate Director - Data Platform Engineering

Position Overview

ABOUT APOLLO

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of June 30, 2024, Apollo had approximately $696 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals. The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.

The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

As an enterprise data platform engineer, you will design and build some of the foundational data products that will be used across the enterprise including the entity masters, security master and common investment management data products and make them available on the Delphi platform for consumption across the enterprise. Delphi is a cloud-native multi-tenant PaaS running on Azure.  You should be comfortable designing, building and managing cloud-based data pipelines and services.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• ·       Build and operate scalable platforms that are leveraged by internal developers to accelerate their development.

  ·       Serve as an evangelist for the use of technology platforms; proliferate best practices on coding, SDLC. Mentor development teams and work with user groups to gather feedback and improve the existing platforms.

  ·       Reduce costs and increase performance of Azure managed services, defining best practices and reusable libraries to be used by other engineering teams.

  ·       Design and implement a data serving architecture and accompanying programming model to support various analytical workflows in near-real-time in a multi-tenant environment.

  Design, implement and maintain common Java/Python services and libraries that serves cross-cutting concerns including authorization, control policies (retries, throttling), error handling and resiliency.

Qualifications & Experience

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: (Academic, Professional, Experience)

• 8+ years of experience in technology building products and platforms.

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related fields.

• Experience in building SAAS platforms is a plus

• Experience with cloud-based distributed systems, including system design, implementation, DevOps practices and production operation.

• Experience with parallel & concurrent programming, including an understanding of the tradeoffs between state consistency models, throughput & latency, asynchrony & synchrony.

• Willingness to learn and model a complex domain, apply sophisticated engineering techniques, and operate as part of a team.

• Ability to instrument, analyze and react to operational metrics.

• Experience with our tech stack is appreciated, but not required.

Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.