VP, Data Platforms & Services

0200 Ares Operations LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Flexible Savings Accounts

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Ares Management Corporation seeks a Vice President, Data Services to define and execute the enterprise data strategy. You will lead architecture, engineering, and operations of data distribution platforms across APIs, streaming, and data sharing, enabling scalable, governed data products for internal and external consumers.

Lead teams, set standards for API lifecycle, governance, and self-service data access, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver strategic data initiatives in a complex,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
• Extensive experience (12+ years) designing and operating enterprise-scale data distribution platforms utilizing REST APIs, GraphQL, API gateways, and microservices architectures
• Deep expertise implementing Databricks Catalog Sharing, Delta Sharing, Unity Catalog, and Lakehouse architectures for secure data sharing
• Proven experience building real-time data distribution solutions using Kafka, Confluent Platform, Azure Event Hubs, Service Bus, and event-driven architectures
• Strong hands-on experience developing cloud-native data services on Azure (API Management, AKS, Databricks) and modern distributed data platforms
• Expertise in data product operating models, data contracts, semantic layers, and self-service data consumption capabilities
• Experience establishing security, governance, observability, lineage, entitlement management, authentication, authorization, and audit controls across enterprise distribution channels
• 12+ years of experience in data engineering, distributed systems, API platforms, or data architecture
• 8+ years of leadership experience managing engineering organizations
• Experience delivering cloud-native data solutions on Azure and Databricks
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries preferred

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise Data Distribution strategy and multi-year roadmap
• Establish a product-driven approach to delivering enterprise data products and data services
• Build and lead engineering teams responsible for API, streaming, and data-sharing platforms
• Drive adoption of data distribution patterns including APIs, GraphQL, event streams, and data products
• Partner with business, architecture, data governance, and platform teams to align capabilities with objectives
• Define platform KPIs, consumer adoption metrics, SLAs, and operational standards

Skills

API platforms

Event-driven architecture

Databricks Delta Sharing

Data sharing

Cloud-native engineering

Azure

Kubernetes AKS

Security and governance

Leadership experience

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Kafka

Azure Event Hubs

Confluent Platform

API Management

Unity Catalog

Delta Sharing

Job description

Ares Management Corporation seeks a Vice President, Data Services to define and execute the enterprise data strategy. You will lead architecture, engineering, and operations of data distribution platforms across APIs, streaming, and data sharing, enabling scalable, governed data products for internal and external consumers.

Lead teams, set standards for API lifecycle, governance, and self-service data access, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver strategic data initiatives in a complex,