Senior Vice President, Real Estate Technology

Vice President, Full Stack Software Engineering Lead

Ares is seeking a Vice President, Full Stack Software Engineering Lead to drive the design, development, and delivery of technology solutions supporting the firm's global real estate investment and operating platform.

Reporting to the Principal, Head of Real Estate Technology, this role will serve as the engineering leader for the Real Estate Technology organization, responsible for building and evolving software platforms that support the real estate investment lifecycle across sourcing, underwriting, acquisitions, asset management, property operations, portfolio management, reporting, and investment analytics.

This is a highly hands-on leadership role. The successful candidate will be expected to actively contribute to software development alongside the engineering team while establishing engineering standards, modern architecture patterns, and software delivery best practices. The role will be accountable for engineering execution, solution quality, operational stability, and the end-to-end software development lifecycle across real estate technology initiatives.

The ideal candidate will bring strong experience building enterprise-grade applications within financial services, investment management, real estate, or alternative asset management environments, with deep expertise in modern full-stack development, cloud-native architectures, microservices, data platforms, messaging systems, and software engineering best practices.

This individual will partner closely with Product Management, real estate investment professionals, asset management teams, property management and operations stakeholders, finance, Data & AI teams, and broader Investment Technology leadership to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing technology solutions that support the firm's growing real estate business.

Engineering Leadership & Team Development

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers supporting Real Estate Technology initiatives.
• Establish engineering standards, development practices, coding guidelines, and quality controls.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
• Provide hands-on coaching and technical guidance to team members.
• Drive adoption of Agile development practices and modern engineering methodologies.
• Drive engineering decisions related to scalability, resiliency, performance, observability, and operational excellence.
• Evaluate new technologies and architectural patterns to improve engineering effectiveness and platform capabilities.

Application Development & Technology Delivery

• Lead development across real estate deal management platforms, underwriting and investment workflow solutions, asset management and portfolio monitoring platforms, property operations integrations, investment data services and APIs, and reporting and analytics platforms.
• Ensure engineering teams deliver scalable technology solutions supporting deal sourcing and pipeline management, underwriting workflows, acquisition and transaction management, asset management, property operations, portfolio monitoring, investment reporting, and real estate investment data management.
• Develop and maintain APIs, data services, and integration frameworks supporting investment, asset management, property operations, finance, risk, reporting, and analytics platforms.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Architect and deploy applications using modern cloud-native technologies.
• Implement containerized solutions utilizing Kubernetes and cloud platform services.
• Drive modernization efforts focused on cloud adoption, scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure proper observability, monitoring, logging, and operational support across production environments.

Integration & Event-Driven Architecture

• Design and implement API-first architecture and integration frameworks.
• Leverage messaging platforms, event streaming, and asynchronous processing patterns to support scalable and resilient business platforms.
• Build solutions that integrate seamlessly across investment, data, property management, finance, and operational platforms.
• Partner with Data & AI teams to enable high-quality data flows and analytics capabilities.

Hands-On Software Engineering

• Actively contribute to software development and remain deeply involved in implementation decisions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support business-critical applications supporting real estate investment and operating workflows.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture reviews, troubleshooting, and production support activities.
• Lead development efforts across front-end, backend, integration, and data layers.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with enterprise engineering standards.

Platform Architecture & System Design

• Design and evolve modern cloud-native architectures supporting the real estate technology ecosystem.
• Define architecture standards for…