Compliance Engineering Product Lead

Position Overview

Apollo Global Technology is seeking a multi-talented, high-energy engineering lead to manage, direct, and deliver on strategic initiatives across business functions mainly focused on Legal & Compliance (L&C). The ideal candidate provides visible leadership, accountability, and authority ensuring key services and project delivery commitments are defined, agreed to, and tracked against commitments.  The position requires strong knowledge and practical experience in legal & compliance functions and practices.

This role provides recommendations to increase productivity of project delivery and project optimization ensuring  quality every step of the way. This role will adhere to and support a Project Governance framework to ensure business value driven projects are given priority.

The Engineering lead interfaces with business stakeholders at all levels up to and including the Executive Level to strategically align and set direction with parallel work in production support and project delivery.

This is a leadership role within CFS and requires an experienced people manager who will establish a culture of feedback and openness and sets the example for thoughtfulness and quality in all work output.

This position will report to the Head of Human Capital, Legal & Compliance, & GRC Technology.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop L&C technology strategy through defining scope of projects, completing requirements gathering, overseeing design and user acceptance testing (UAT), and supporting user system adoption. 

• Assesses ongoing and future target operating model requirements and operational needs of the business areas, including integration with other Apollo/Non-Apollo systems, data insights, and workflow enhancements.

• Oversee vendor management and coordinate with internal stakeholders to drive the project team to make timely decisions and deliver projects on schedule and within budget.

• Provide functional expertise to members of the L&C team and champions the adoption of best practices. Analyzes, troubleshoots, and takes ownership of high priority system and user issues, coordinating issue resolution efforts across technical support teams and vendors; keeps management aware of and can clearly articulate high priority issues that impact the business.

• Identify risks, plan for unanticipated outcomes, form appropriate contingency plans and system compliance.

• Assigns duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to employees and project consultants.

• Reviews and approves functional and technical solutions before they are implemented.

• Effectively communicates relevant project information to all levels within the organization.

• Coaches and develops team members; establishes a culture of feedback and openness and sets the example for thoughtfulness and quality in all work output.

• Oversight of release management and keeping systems up to date with the evolving tech industry for L&C products.

• Provide oversight of process documentation to ensure knowledge transfer across systems for users and tracking of configuration updates. 

• Co-develop and co-execute on strategic, multi-year roadmap

• Performs other related duties of a comparable level/type as required.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of L&C Technology expertise delivering on L&C solutions with experience supporting L&C teams on a variant of complex initiatives.

• 8+​ years industry full cycle experience of SDLC methodologies and approaches, including refining business requirements and defining functional specifications

• Experience with relevant L&C technology platforms, including Communications Surveillance (e.g. Global Relay), Trade Surveillance, Investment Compliance,  KYC/AML (e.g. MaxComply IQ-EQ)

• Experience working in or providing consulting services to a global, highly-regulated Financial Services firm

• Able to succeed within a highly demanding, fast paced and Technology service-critical environment.

• Proven success working with senior leaders building consensus and negotiating priorities.

• Demonstrated ability to define and execute on an application shared services vision and ability to architect as a shared service where appropriate.

• Confirmed experience and business acumen to partner with business stakeholders to examine and re-engineer procedures and developing and implementing new strategies and procedures.

• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills.

• Experience leading complex projects including multiple parties both internal and external.

• Group facilitation, mediation, and conflict resolution skills.

Pay Range

The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.