Director – Data Engineer

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.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

At Apollo, we’re a global team of alternative investment managers passionate about delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. With over 30 years of proven expertise across Private Equity, Credit and Real Estate, regions and industries, we’re known for our integrated businesses, our strong investment performance, our value-oriented philosophy – and our people.  

The Client & Innovation Engineering team challenges the status quo and finds solutions on that scale. The team takes a cross-functional view of Apollo to seek high return-on-investment opportunities to use technology in pursuit of growing the business and operating with greater efficiency. Focus areas include client experience, Artificial Intelligence, workflow automation and productivity tools. We aim to empower everyone at Apollo with the ability to innovate in their own roles.

Primary Responsibility:

Apollo is searching for a hands-on business-focused technology manager to lead the distribution intelligence technology team in advancing the overall experience and associated deliverables. The ideal candidate will have functional knowledge in Sales and Marketing processes and core data engineering technologies such as databases, BI, ETL and AI tools. The individual will work closely and partner with global sales enablement, analytics client management, operations, and finance teams to deliver on projects that provide the capabilities defined in the target operating model. You will learn new technologies, working on constantly upgrading your skill set and the products you work on to be at-par with the best in the industry. You will innovate and solve technical challenges in an effective manner that emphasizes a long-term vision.

You will design and deliver solutions for wealth management and Institutional asset management business initiatives. 

• Designing and developing efficient data ingestion processes, data models, and data pipelines leveraging the power of Snowflake

• Collaborating extensively with clients to gain a deep understanding of their data requirements and translating them into robust technical solutions.

• Implementing end-to-end ETL/ELT workflows to seamlessly extract, transform, and load data into Snowflake.

• Optimizing data pipelines to achieve exceptional performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Conducting thorough data quality assessments and implementing effective data governance best practices

• Monitoring and troubleshooting data integration processes to ensure the utmost accuracy and integrity of data.

• Staying at the forefront of industry trends and best practices related to Snowflake and data engineering.

Qualifications & Experience

• Looking for top-notch lead engineering talent who will be able to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment that demands quick turnaround for mission critical technical solutions, have extremely high standards with a low tolerance for low quality output.

• Excellent oral and written, and problem-solving skills are required.

• Strong background in computer science concepts.

• Candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and can help build APIs, Calculators, on new cutting-edge cloud and big data technologies such as Snowflake, Fivetran, DBT etc.

• Minimum of 14+ years of experience building and managing data related solutions preferably in financial industry.

• Knowledge of and experience with Master and Reference Data solutions (e.g., Semarchy) and processes a plus

• Experience using ETL/ELT tools and technologies such as Azure Data Factory, SSIS a plus

• Embrace data platform thinking, design and develop data pipelines keeping security, scale, uptime, and reliability in mind

• Expertise in relational and dimensional data modeling

• Ideal candidates should have strong analytical skills and a penchant for tackling complex problems and designs of scale.

• Able to expertly express the benefits and constraints of technology solutions to technology partners, business partners, and team members

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.