Associate – Data 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 to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and 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.

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. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.

• Analyze business requirements and API contracts to build APIs to meet business needs and regulatory and compliance requirements.

• Understand and apply Twelve-Factor App methodology principles in developing REST APIs using various Spring Boot, Java frameworks and Azure API Management platform.

• Create API documentation that is onboarding to Developer portal

• Use API Management platform to design and implement requirements of the API layer. ex. policies that will cover security, caching, limits, logging, request, and response modifications

• Maintain programming standards and ensure the usage of Framework pattern for API services

• Conduct code reviews and build automatic test coverage

• Develop the CI/CD pipeline for API management tools and code deployment.

• Utilize problem-solving skills to help your peers in the research and selection of tools, products, and frameworks (which is vital to support business initiatives)

• Will manage large data API requests

• Monitor the security of data and API consumption

• Ensuring stability of API and APIM performance and maintain SLAS

• Implement OAuth Okta integration for communication between API producers and consumers.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of proven industry experience; Masters or bachelor’s degree in IT or related fields

• Strong hands-on development expertise in Java, GraphQL, Junit, Springboot, OpenAPI, SQL, Java, Python, Spark, Flink, Kafka

• Strong understanding of Twelve-Factor App Methodology

• Design/Write object-oriented, modularized, clean and maintainable code

• Good understanding of Integration knowledge of backend, Front end and other 3rd party applications.

• Solid understanding of API and integration design principles and pattern experience with web technologies.

• Design object-oriented, modularized, clean, and maintainable code and creating policies in Java, JavaScript, Node JS, Python etc.

• Experience implementing requirements of the API layer like security, throttling, OAuth 2.0, TLS, certificates, Azure KeyVault, caching, logging, request, and response modifications etc. using API management platform.

• Experience creating custom policies in Java, JavaScript, Node JS, Python etc. in API management platform.

• Experience with test-driven development

• Demonstrated track record of full project lifecycle and development, as well as post-implementation support activities

• Significant experience of designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud environments like Azure and Kubernetes

• Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD Tools to build and deploy Java/API packages

• Hands-on experience in designing and developing high volume REST using API Protocols and Data Formats.

• Good understanding of Databases, API Frameworks, Governance Frameworks, and expertise in hosting and managing platform environments like: Spark, Flink, Kafka, SpringBoot, BI Tools like Tableau, Alteryx, Governance Tools like Callibra, Soda, Amazon DeeQu

• Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with Azure API and DB Platforms

• Familiar in NoSQL\NewSQL databases

• Strong documentation capability and adherence to testing and release management standards

• Hosting and Managing Frameworks: Spark, Flink, Kafka, Spring Boot, BI Tools like Tableau, Alteryx, Governance Tools like Callibra, Soda, DeeQu

• Design, development, modification and testing of databases designed to support Data Warehousing and BI business teams

• Strong documentation capability and adherence to testing and release management standards

• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies, defect tracking (JIRA, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow etc.)

Soft Skills:

• Candidate must have an analytical and logical thought process for developing project solutions

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; works well in a team environment

• Ability to deliver under competing priorities and pressures.

• Excellent organizational skills in the areas of code structuring & partitioning, commenting and documentation for team alignment and modifications

Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, color, 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.