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Associate Director, Client and Innovation Engineering

Apollo India Services LLP
Full-time
On-site
Mumbai Nesco IT Park Tower India
Finance Jobs

Position Overview

ABOUT APOLLO

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 to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. 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. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

At Apollo, we’re a global team of alternative investment managers passionate about delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. With over 30 years of proven expertise across Private Equity, Credit and Real Estate, regions and industries, we’re known for our integrated businesses, our strong investment performance, our value-oriented philosophy – and our people. The Client and Innovation Engineering team is responsible to design and deliver digital products to our institutional and wealth management clients and sales team. We are a product driven, and developer focused team; our goal to simplify our engineering process and meet our business objectives. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Apollo is seeking a hands-on, business-oriented Lead Data Engineer to lead the technology efforts focused on supporting data driven distribution processes. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in data engineering within asset and/or wealth management, combined with excellent technical acumen and a passion for building scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions.
  • This role will partner closely with Distribution Data Enablement, Sales & Marketing, Operations, and Finance teams to execute key initiatives aligned with Apollo’s target operating model. You will play a critical role in building and evolving our data products and infrastructure. You will learn new technologies, working on constantly upgrading your skill set and the products you work on to be at-par with the best in the industry. You will innovate and solve technical challenges that emphasizes a long-term vision.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient cloud-based data pipelines and integration workflows using Azure Data Factory (ADF), DBT, Snowflake, FiveTran, and related tools.
  • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to understand data needs and translate them into effective technical solutions, including developing relational and dimensional data models.
  • Implement and optimize end-to-end ETL/ELT processes to support enterprise data needs.
  • Design and implement pipeline controls, conduct data quality assessments and enforce data governance best practices to ensure accuracy and integrity.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across data pipelines to ensure stability, reliability, and performance.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to support analytics, reporting, and operational data needs.
  • Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve our data architecture.
  • Support master data management (MDM) initiatives and contribute to overall data strategy and architecture.

Qualifications & Experience

  • 8+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a related field, ideally within financial services or asset/wealth management.
  • Proven expertise in Azure-based data engineering tools including ADF, DBT, Snowflake, and FiveTran.
  • Programming skills in Python (or Scala/Java) for data transformation and automation.
  • Solid understanding of modern data modeling (relational, dimensional, and star schema).
  • Experience with MDM platforms and frameworks is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with additional ETL/ELT tools (e.g., Talend, Informatica, SSIS) is a plus.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment with rapidly changing priorities.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical topics into business-friendly language.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
  • A strong analytical mindset with a passion for solving complex problems.
  • A team player who is proactive, accountable, and detail oriented.
  • A leader who sets high standards and delivers high-quality outcomes.
  • An innovator who keeps up with industry trends and continually seeks opportunities to improve.