Senior Associate, Business Automation Solutions - Data & Technology Solutions

StepStone Group; La Jolla Ranch (CA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

StepStone Group is seeking a Senior Associate in Business Automation Solutions within the DATS department. The role involves hands‑on architectural leadership across PHP, React, Python, and Kubernetes/DevOps to productionize prototype work and ensure proper deployment.

You will guide solution structure, mentor teams, and oversee intracluster networking, Helm packaging, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions. The position requires strong cross-team coordination and technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience with production ownership or cross‑team enablement.
• Proficiency across Python, PHP, and React (JavaScript/TypeScript); able to read, review, and write code in each.
• Strong Kubernetes and DevOps capability: Helm charts, intracluster networking, GitHub Actions CI/CD, containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to bring solutions into a strong, maintainable framework and productionize them to standards.
• Own deployment and intracluster networking: package and ship solutions via Helm charts on Kubernetes and ensure correct service-to-service networking.
• Lead Kubernetes/DevOps practices for partner-team deployments: Helm, GitHub Actions CI/CD, containerization, observability, and release safety.
• Engineer on partner teams’ behalf when resources are lacking, delivering production-quality code across PHP, React, and Python.
• Review partner-team work and enforce architecture and code-quality standards before production.

Skills

Python

PHP

React

Kubernetes

DevOps

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

GitHub Actions

Docker

Job description

We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world’s investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed.

Position Overview:

The Senior Associate, Business Automation Solutions (the “Architect”) will be a senior member of the Applied Engineering Solutions team within StepStone’s Data Analytics and Technology Solutions (“DATS”) department. This person is a polyglot engineer and hands‑on architect who helps teams across the firm take their solutions from prototype to well‑architected production. They guide how a solution should be structured, ensure it is deployed and networked correctly within our Kubernetes platform, and where a partner team lacks the technical resources, engineer the solution on their behalf. The role spans PHP, React, Python and Kubernetes/DevOps, and suits an engineer who is equally comfortable advising, reviewing, and building across the full stack.

Essential Job Functions:

• Partner with teams across the firm to bring their solutions — including AI-assisted and rapidly prototyped work — into a strong, maintainable framework, and productionize them to the team’s standards
• Own deployment and intracluster networking: package and ship solutions via Helm charts on Kubernetes and ensure correct service‑to‑service networking and access to the right data within the cluster
• Lead Kubernetes/DevOps practices for partner‑team deployments: Helm, GitHub Actions CI/CD, containerization, observability, and release safety
• Engineer on partner teams’ behalf when they lack the technical resources, delivering production‑quality code across PHP, React, and Python
• Review partner‑team work and enforce standards (architecture, security, code quality) before it reaches production
• Advise teams on how a problem should be tackled end‑to‑end, reducing one‑off, unsupportable solutions and steering work into shared frameworks
• Coordinate cross‑team delivery in JIRA; partner with QA to define and meet testing and acceptance goals
• Mentor analysts and associates and raise the engineering bar across the teams you support

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including production ownership and demonstrable technical leadership or cross‑team enablement
• Working proficiency across Python, PHP, and React (JavaScript/TypeScript); able to read, review, and write code in each
• Strong Kubernetes and DevOps capability: Helm charts, intracluster networking and service configuration, GitHub Actions (or comparable CI/CD), and containerized deployments
• Demonstrated ability to review others’ work and enforce architecture and code‑quality standards
• Strong communication and consulting skills; comfortable guiding teams that are not primarily engineers and owning JIRA coordination

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience packaging and distributing internal libraries (private package registries, polyrepo/monorepo strategy)
• Experience operating production systems
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with finance, private markets, or investment data domains

Salary: $140,000

The salary range is an estimate of pay for this position. Actual pay may vary depending on job‑related factors that can include location, education, skill, and experience. The salary range does not include any benefits or other forms of possible compensation that may be available to employees.

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At StepStone, we believe that our people are our most important asset and crucial to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups as well as mentorship programs to enhance the employee experience for all.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, StepStone does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates must be at least 18 years old to apply.