VP, Azure & Databricks Data Platform

Ares Management; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

401(k) with company match

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Wellbeing and financial wellness perks

Job summary

Ares Management seeks a Vice President of Data Platform Engineering to own the Azure and Databricks-based data platform powering ingestion, analytics, AI/ML, and data products. You will lead platform engineering, SRE, and DevOps, driving governance, reliability, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

You will partner across Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Governance to accelerate delivery and enterprise-grade governance. Strong leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-scale Azure and Databricks Lakehouse platforms.
• Deep expertise in Azure infrastructure with landing zones, ExpressRoute, NSG, Key Vault, and AKS.
• Hands-on Databricks administration, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and workspace governance.
• Proven automation experience with Terraform, IaC, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong platform observability and security/governance practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise Data Platform Engineering strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Establish standards, operating models, and governance frameworks for the platform.
• Build and lead teams for cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, and platform operations.
• Drive modernization, automation, and self-service enablement initiatives.
• Partner with leadership to align platform capabilities with business objectives.
• Define KPIs, SLAs, SLOs, and operational excellence metrics.
• Manage budgets, cloud spend, vendor relationships, and technology investments.
• Lead ongoing optimization, capacity management, and reliability improvements.
• Implement cost optimization and FinOps disciplines to maximize cloud efficiency.

Skills

Azure & Databricks Lakehouse

Platform engineering

SRE & DevOps

Cloud cost optimization

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems

Tools

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Databricks

Job description

Ares Management seeks a Vice President of Data Platform Engineering to own the Azure and Databricks-based data platform powering ingestion, analytics, AI/ML, and data products. You will lead platform engineering, SRE, and DevOps, driving governance, reliability, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

You will partner across Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Governance to accelerate delivery and enterprise-grade governance. Strong leadership is essential.