Senior Engineer, Data Engineering

0156 Ares Operations India Private Limited; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Ares Management LLC seeks an experienced Data Engineer to design and maintain scalable data pipelines and enterprise data platforms. You will collaborate with global teams on architecture, build, and governance, ensuring reliable data services for analytics across the organization.

Ideal candidates have 6–10 years in data engineering in financial services, strong Azure Databricks and PySpark experience, and a solid command of Python, SQL, and ETL/ELT patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related discipline.

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.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Spark concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Info Systems/Data Science

Tools

Azure Databricks

Delta Lake

Azure Data Factory

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Job description

Over the last 20 years, Ares' success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values - Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy - and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of June 30, 2026, Ares Management's global platform had approximately $671 billion of assets under management(1) with more than 4,400 employees operating across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. For more information, please visit www.aresmgmt.com.

Job Description Primary functions & 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.
• Assist with building and optimizing cloud-based data solutions and enterprise data platforms.
• Work closely with global teams on design, architecture and build out of data platform.
• Partner with business teams to understand reporting and analytics requirements.
• Monitor data quality, performance, and reliability across data environments.
• Contribute to data governance, lineage, and documentation initiatives.
• Participate in code reviews and engineering best practices.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related discipline. Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

Experience Required: 6 to 10 years of hands-on data engineering, data solutions, or financial technology experience, ideally within financial services, asset management, accounting, investment operations, or another controlled enterprise data environment. Hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale data pipelines using Azure Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake, Python, SQL, and Azure Data Factory, including both batch and streaming workloads.

• Hands-on Databricks experience, including notebooks, workflows/jobs, Spark concepts, Delta Lake patterns, and production support.
• Python and/or PySpark for transformation, validation, automation, and testing.
• Strong ETL/ELT, data modeling, integration, and curated-data-layer experience.
• Experience building domain-specific transformations, integrations, data products, validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and controls.
• Ability to own technical delivery while working effectively within a broader enterprise data and reporting operating model.
• Working knowledge of Unity Catalog, metadata, lineage, master/reference data, governance, controls, and auditability concepts.
• Experience structuring governed data for dashboards, reports, extracts, downstream applications, operational workflows, and analytics
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, automated testing, release management, and environment promotion strategies supporting both platform and data engineering workloads.

Reporting Relationships Partner, Chief Information Officer

Ares Management LLC (together with its related operating and administrative subsidiaries, "Ares Management") is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, creed, sex, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, status regarding public assistance, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, gender identity and expression, transgender status, genetic information, status as unemployed, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Ares Management will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. (1) As of June 30, 2026. AUM amounts include funds managed by Ivy Hill Asset Management, LP., a wholly owned portfolio company of Ares Capital Corporation and registered investment adviser.