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Job Description
Ares Management is seeking a Vice President, Data Ingestion & Integration to help design, build, and scale the firm's enterprise data ecosystem. This role will be responsible for delivering highly scalable data engineering solutions that enable analytics, reporting, operational efficiency, and AI-driven capabilities across Ares' global business.
The successful candidate will possess deep technical expertise, demonstrate ownership of critical platform components, and work closely with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to advance the firm's data strategy.
Reporting relationships
Reports to: Principal, Head of Data Platforms
Supervises: n/a
Primary functions & responsibilities
Enterprise Data Platform Engineering
· Define and own the enterprise Data Ingestion & Integration strategy and multi-year roadmap.
· Establish standards, governance, and best practices for enterprise-wide data movement and integration.
· Build and lead high-performing engineering teams responsible for ingestion, integration, and data connectivity services.
· Drive adoption of modern, event-driven, API-first, and cloud-native integration patterns.
· Partner with product teams to prioritize strategic data initiatives aligned to business growth objectives.
· Develop operational KPIs and SLAs for data delivery, platform reliability, scalability, and quality.
· Drive modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy data warehouses and on-premises platforms to Azure.
Architect and oversee enterprise-scale ingestion:
· Build cloud native data ingestion frameworks supporting:
o Structured and unstructured data
o Internal operational systems
o Third-party data providers
o Market data feeds
o Alternative data sources
o Partner ecosystems
· Design scalable data onboarding processes reducing time-to-market for new data sources.
· Lead implementation of reusable ingestion accelerators, metadata-driven pipelines, and self-service onboarding capabilities.
· Establish standards for batch, micro-batch, and streaming ingestion architectures.
· Ensure observability, lineage, monitoring, reconciliation, and operational supportability across ingestion solutions.
· Establish enterprise-wide observability standards for all ingestion and integration services.
· Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and operational dashboards across the data ecosystem.
· Develop proactive incident detection and automated remediation capabilities.
· Establish centralized visibility into pipeline health, data freshness, throughput, latency, and service availability.
Business & Stakeholder Engagement
· Partner directly with stakeholders across Investment Operations, Finance, Compliance, Investor Relations, Risk, and Investment teams.
· Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
· Drive successful delivery of strategic data initiatives and enhancements.
Data Governance & Quality
· Implement and support data quality controls, lineage, metadata, and governance capabilities.
· Contribute to data security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
· Establish technical standards and engineering best practices.
Leadership & Collaboration
· Lead technical workstreams and complex engineering…