Director - Investment Technology

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.

Team Overview

The Investment Technology team is tasked with developing Apollo's next-generation trading system. This system encompasses various verticals and manages the entire trade and deal lifecycle. The team is responsible for creating a platform that addresses business challenges in Credit, Deals, Capital Solutions, and Sustainability.

The role

Seeking a highly hands on experienced developer to work on our next generation systematic credit trading platform. The ideal candidate is a proficient programmer who understands the business with clear communication skills to work alongside portfolio managers, quants and traders. The developer will work with these colleagues to build the foundational infrastructure from the grounds up. This includes curation of data, development and runtime environments and contribute to the model development.

• Responsible for full lifecycle of development tasks - analyze, design and code business-related solutions, as well as core architectural changes, using an Agile programming approach resulting in software delivered to tight deadlines.

• Assist in combining extremely large and diverse datasets to build a model, which will ultimately drive the investment process. The unique opportunity to join a new initiative with a niche team to drive transformational change in a successful organization.

• Participate in system design and architectural decisions.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead a team of full-stack developers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to ensure the successful delivery of software to the desk.

• Usher software build through requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and production deployment.

• Strong software experience in developing and a proven track record of delivering full-stack cloud-based (Azure) applications.

• Demonstrated ability to build and deploy microservices in a scalable high throughput workflow.

• Experience with both server-side development (e.g.: Python, Java, FASTAPI), backend technologies (e.g., MongoDB, SQL) JavaScript/TypeScript front-end development (e.g.: Vue, Angular, React)

• OOPs technology like Java is a good to have.

• Experience with messaging systems across application stack (e.g., Kafka, Event-Hub)

• Comfortable working in an agile software delivery environment with Git and with exposure to CI / CD tools (e.g., AKS, K8s, Docker, Jenkins, Gitlab)

• Passion for clean, maintainable code and always looking to improve engineering skills in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

• Lead by example, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment, promoting knowledge sharing, and encouraging professional growth and development.

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years of experience, with preferably at least 3+ years working in a trading environment.

• Individual must demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.

• Track record of building and deploying trading software in a production environment

• Experience in trading technologies across asset classes.

• Role requires individual to be nimble and flexible to balance multiple tasks simultaneously. 

• Individual must have strong drive, initiative, and demonstrate entrepreneurial skillsets.

• Passion for learning and staying current with emerging technologies and best practice.

Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.