Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Team-oriented, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description
Primary functions & responsibilities

Data Engineering & Platform Leadership
- Lead the Client Platform Data Engineering function, responsible for ingestion, transformation, modeling, orchestration, storage and delivery of Ares’ Client data
- Have primary accountability for aligning to Ares’ data governance standards including modeling, lineage, data quality, and data protection standards
- Own the design and operation of enterprise data lakes and Lakehouse architectures, supporting client use cases.




- Apply best-in-class engineering standards for data pipelines, CI/CD, testing, and data quality assurance

Architecture & Engineering Excellence
- Partner with the Data and AI organization to define and apply data reference architectures
- Partner with Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Security, and Architecture teams to ensure scalability, resiliency, data privacy and regulatory compliance.
- Promote modern engineering practices including DevOps, Automated testing and data quality assurance
- Ensure platforms meet enterprise requirements for security, auditability, privacy, and regulatory controls.

Execution, Delivery & Operations
- Own end-to-end engineering delivery, from roadmap execution through production operations.
- Establish delivery metrics (velocity, reliability, cost efficiency, platform adoption).
- Lead vendor selection and management for data related tooling.
- Ensure

📌 AVP, Client Platforms (Mumbai)
🏢 Ares Operations
📍 Mumbai