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, telemetry, logging, alerting, and operational health across data environments.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, tune performance, recover and reprocess data, and provide operational support.
- Support data governance, lineage, documentation, reconciliation, exception handling, audit trails, metadata management, and regulatory controls.
- Participate in code reviews and apply engineering best practices.
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, deploying, supporting, and optimizing enterprise-scale data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Python, SQL, and Azure Data Factory.
- Experience with batch and streaming workloads, ETL/ELT, transformations, enrichment, validation, data quality controls, and Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medallion Architecture environments.
- Experience supporting Azure Databricks Workspaces, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, Delta Live Tables, SQL Warehouses, Cluster Policies, Lakehouse Monitoring, and System Tables.
- Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, automated testing, release management, and environment promotion strategies.
- Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Workbooks, Databricks Audit Logs, Databricks Lakehouse Monitoring, and Databricks Job Monitoring.
- Working knowledge of Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus, CDC technologies, and Databricks Structured Streaming.
- 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.
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, long-term and short-term disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program, and commuter benefits for parking and transit.
- Access to medical advisory services, mental health and mindfulness applications, financial wellness support with a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, and education sponsorship program.
- 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.