Investment Compliance Engineering Lead

Vice President, Investment Compliance Engineering Lead

Ares is seeking a Vice President, Investment Compliance Engineering Lead to join Corporate Technology in New York, reporting to the Head of Legal Risk and Compliance Technology. This role will lead the engineering delivery, platform health, and ongoing evolution of technology solutions supporting Ares' Investment Compliance capabilities, including surveillance, pre-/post-trade controls, approvals, monitoring, and governance processes.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineering leader with deep familiarity across the investment process and a strong understanding of information barriers and related compliance controls. They bring a strong technical foundation (SQL and at least one coding language), experience delivering integrated solutions across data and enterprise platforms, and a proven ability to partner effectively with Compliance and investment stakeholders in a complex, regulated environment (experience at a large alternative asset manager or similar firm strongly preferred).

Experience with low-code platforms (Pega, Appian, Power Platform) is a plus but not required.

• Lead engineering delivery and operational ownership for the Investment Compliance technology portfolio, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and audit-ready.
• Partner with Compliance leadership and investment stakeholders to translate investment compliance requirements into clear technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Own end-to-end solution delivery: discovery, requirements, architecture/design, build, testing/UAT, release, and production support, aligned to SDLC, change management, and audit expectations.
• Establish and maintain integration patterns and data flows across core platforms (APIs, batch, messaging/events as appropriate) to support surveillance, monitoring, approvals, and downstream reporting.
• Drive strong engineering discipline: code quality, peer review, automated testing, environment management, release governance, and operational readiness.
• Ensure embedded controls across workflows, including approvals, evidence capture, traceability, segregation of duties, and access management.
• Maintain a strong point of view on information barrier requirements and technology controls (restricted lists, watch lists, access entitlements, monitoring, attestations), ensuring effective implementation and governance.
• Partner with Data/Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Information Security teams to ensure alignment with data governance, cybersecurity, privacy, and resiliency standards.
• Lead a small team of technical resources, providing coaching, prioritization, delivery planning, and performance guidance; foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Manage vendors/partners as needed to ensure delivery quality, predictable execution, and alignment with Ares standards and roadmap.
• Provide executive-ready reporting on progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and remediation plans for investment compliance-impacting items.

• 10+ years of progressive technology experience, including significant hands-on delivery experience supporting Investment Compliance, trading/investment platforms, or related risk/control domains.
• Demonstrated subject matter knowledge of the investment lifecycle (e.g., deal pipeline, trade execution, portfolio monitoring, reporting) and how compliance controls are implemented across that lifecycle.
• Experience implementing or supporting information barrier controls and related governance processes.
• Experience in complex, regulated financial services; alternative asset management experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required;
  Computer Science/Engineering background preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to influence and collaborate across senior business and technology stakeholders.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on development experience, including:
• SQL (required), data analysis/troubleshooting, and comfort navigating complex data/process flows
• Experience…