Associate, Data Platform Engineering
Ares Management Corporation22 hours ago
Base Salary
$85k - $100k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data integrations.
- Support ingestion of structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources.
- Build and optimize cloud-based data solutions and enterprise data platforms.
- Partner with business teams to understand reporting and analytics requirements.
- Monitor data quality, performance, reliability, observability, and operational health across data environments.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, tune pipelines, recover and reprocess data, and provide operational support.
- Support Azure Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, Delta Live Tables, SQL Warehouses, cluster policies, lakehouse monitoring, and system tables.
- Implement data governance, lineage, reconciliation, exception handling, audit trails, metadata management, data quality controls, and regulatory compliance processes.
- Participate in code reviews, automated testing, release management, environment promotion, and engineering best practices.
- Support real-time and event-driven architectures using Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus, CDC technologies, and Databricks Structured Streaming.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of experience in Data Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Data Operations.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale data pipelines with Azure Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Python, SQL, and Azure Data Factory.
- Experience with batch and streaming workloads, ETL/ELT, custom transformations, data enrichment, validation, and data quality controls in Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medallion Architecture environments.
- Experience supporting Azure Databricks capabilities including Workspaces, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, Delta Live Tables, SQL Warehouses, Cluster Policies, Lakehouse Monitoring, and System Tables.
- Experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and environment promotion strategies.
- Experience implementing observability, telemetry, logging, alerting, and operational monitoring with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Workbooks, Databricks Audit Logs, Databricks Lakehouse Monitoring, and Databricks Job Monitoring.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, platform services, security configurations, networking, and application integrations.
- Experience supporting Azure cloud environments, Databricks platforms, and enterprise-scale cloud and data ecosystems.
- Financial services, asset management, banking, or other regulated-industry experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with DevOps, automation, monitoring, and cloud operations is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical/Rx, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) program with company match, Flexible Savings Accounts, and Healthcare Savings Accounts with company contribution.
- Basic and voluntary life insurance and short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program and commuter benefits for parking and transit.
- Access to a medical advisory team, mental health and wellbeing apps, financial wellness resources, and a financial advisor.
- New parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and additional benefits.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Ares Management Corporation
Ares Management Corporation is a global alternative investment manager that raises and manages funds across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure for institutional and individual investors. It earns management and performance fees by investing and providing direct lending and other financing solutions to businesses and assets worldwide. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Ares is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (ticker: ARES) with operations across multiple continents.