Associate Vice President, Credit Technology Engineering
Ares Management Corporation2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support software solutions for credit investment workflows.
- Build and maintain front-end, backend, integration, data, API, service, and user-facing application capabilities.
- Partner with the Credit Engineering Lead on architecture, system design, technology decisions, technical roadmaps, and platform modernization.
- Develop cloud-native, containerized applications using Kubernetes and implement observability, logging, monitoring, and operational support capabilities.
- Design APIs and integration services using messaging, event streaming, and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, troubleshooting, production support, release processes, automated testing, and deployment standards.
- Contribute to software engineering excellence, DevOps practices, engineering controls, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor Associate and Analyst software engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and technical coaching.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Investment Technology, investment professionals, operations, Data & AI teams, and other business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or a related field is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience delivering enterprise applications.
- Advanced proficiency in Java and modern backend development frameworks.
- Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, APIs, integration patterns, service-oriented architectures, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, messaging, streaming technologies, cloud-native development, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms.
- Experience with large-scale software delivery, complex business environments, production application support, and cross-functional technical and business collaboration.
- Experience with software design patterns, SDLC, CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps tooling, debugging, performance tuning, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational excellence.
- Experience mentoring developers or providing technical leadership across development initiatives.
- Financial services experience is strongly preferred, particularly with investment management, capital markets, lending, credit, or alternative asset management platforms.
- Familiarity with DealCloud or other pipeline management systems and credit systems such as Allvue is preferred; WSO experience is a plus.
- Strong technical communication, collaboration, ownership, accountability, and delivery skills.
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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.