Data Engineer Professional - Client and Innovation

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.

As a Lead Data Engineer on our growing team, you’ll play a critical role in building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and high-performing data solutions to support business decision-making. You’ll work with modern cloud data infrastructure, leveraging Snowflake and dbt, and contribute to the design and implementation of robust data pipelines, models, and governance frameworks. You will also work closely with stakeholders across the business, particularly in Private Equity or financial services contexts, to ensure alignment and impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture design, planning, implementation, and execution of ABOR (Account Book of Record) systems.

• Build and maintain investment master and product master datasets by integrating multiple external systems.

• Develop, maintain, and optimize ELT/ETL data pipelines using dbt and Snowflake.

• Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver curated datasets.

• Implement best practices for version-controlled data transformations using dbt.

• Manage data ingestion from various sources (APIs, flat files, databases) into Snowflake, including a wide range of external third-party data providers.

• Design and maintain scalable data models that support analytics and reporting.

• Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline performance, data quality issues, and bottlenecks.

• Drive data quality, documentation, and testing practices across the pipeline lifecycle.

• Participate in architecture decisions and contribute to our data engineering roadmap.

• Report on data metrics and pipeline reliability to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and clarity.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8 years of experience in data engineering or related field.

• Strong problem-solving skills, stakeholder management, and ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

• Self-motivated and self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• Experience working in Private Equity or financial institutions is highly preferred.

• Strong SQL skills and experience building scalable data pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and dbt (must-have). Experience working with modern ELT tools, orchestration frameworks, and version control systems.

• Experience integrating and normalizing data from a variety of external data sources.

• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling.

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (Azure preferred).

• Experience with CI/CD for data workflows is a plus

• Exposure to data governance, data cataloging, and observability tools is a plus

• Knowledge of Python or another scripting language for data manipulation is a plus

• Familiarity with BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, etc.).

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.

Apollo Global Management LLC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The firm and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other criteria prohibited under controlling federal, state or local law.

Pay Range

Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.

The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate 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 expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.

The 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. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.

Salary : $140,000 - $205,000