Athene
Investment Engineering Lead - Private Equity, Infrastructure & Hybrid Platforms
New York, New York
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 24 days ago
PythonCI/CDDevOpsData EngineeringNLPLLMsPipeline ManagementFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisValuationRecruitingResearchLeadershipFinancial ReportingUnderwriting
About the role
- Position Overview Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager.
- In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity.
- Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Architect and build robust, scalable platforms for deal evaluation, financial modeling, operational KPI tracking, valuation analytics, and investment committee materials.
- Design and maintain data pipelines integrating internal systems, portfolio company data, third-party market data, and alternative data sources to enable real-time investment insights.
- Develop and oversee Python-based analytics platforms and reusable libraries to standardize underwriting models, scenario analyses, and portfolio diagnostics across strategies.
- Partner directly with investment professionals to translate complex business requirements into technical specifications and production-grade solutions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Risk, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Investor Relations to ensure seamless integration of investment systems with firmwide infrastructure.
- Collaborate closely with adjacent investment engineering functions, such as Credit, to share standards, tooling, and best practices.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams within a complex, global organization.
- Strong hands-on programming expertise in Python, including experience building production-grade analytics, data pipelines, and financial modeling tools.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in investment technology, buy-side engineering, or private equity-focused technology roles, with increasing leadership responsibility.
Compensation
- T he base salary range for this position is listed above.
- This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance.
- Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location.
Visa & Work Authorization
- in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or exp
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