Investment Engineering Lead - Private Equity, Infrastructure & Hybrid Platforms

Apollo • New York, NY

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About The Position

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 credit to private 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. As of March 31, 2026, Apollo had approximately $1.0 trillion of assets under management. Apollo’s Equity and Hybrid platforms span Private Equity, Infrastructure, and related flexible capital strategies. Across these businesses, Apollo deploys long-term capital to acquire, build, and transform companies and real assets, leveraging differentiated sourcing, operational expertise, and a fully integrated global platform. The Investment Engineering Lead for Private Equity, Infrastructure, and Hybrid will serve as the senior technology partner to investment leadership across these platforms. This individual will define and execute the engineering roadmap supporting deal origination, underwriting, portfolio management, asset monitoring, and value creation initiatives. This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can architect scalable systems, lead and develop a team of 6+ engineers, and embed modern data and artificial intelligence capabilities directly into the investment lifecycle, including driving the AI strategy for this platform inclusive of third-party vendor solutions and internal proprietary builds.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in investment technology, buy-side engineering, or private equity–focused technology roles, with increasing leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams within a complex, global organization.
• Strong hands-on programming expertise in Python, including experience building production-grade analytics, data pipelines, and financial modeling tools.
• Experience designing and deploying scalable cloud-based architectures and microservices, with familiarity in modern DevOps practices and CI/CD workflows.
• Deep understanding of private markets investing, including deal lifecycle, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, valuation methodologies, and fund structures.
• Proven ability to operate as a strategic partner to senior investment professionals while remaining technically credible and detail oriented.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience supporting Private Equity, Infrastructure, or Hybrid investment strategies at a leading alternative asset manager or institutional investor.
• Familiarity with artificial intelligence–enabled engineering workflows and tools (e.g., large language models, coding copilots such as Cursor or Claude) and a track record of integrating them into enterprise environments responsibly.
• Experience building investment committee dashboards, portfolio analytics platforms, or value creation tracking systems.
• Knowledge of data engineering best practices, including distributed data processing, API integrations, and event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to financial reporting, fund economics, and management company considerations within alternative asset management.
• Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the end-to-end technology strategy supporting Private Equity, Infrastructure, and Hybrid investment workflows, from pipeline management and underwriting to portfolio monitoring and realization.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Architect and build robust, scalable platforms for deal evaluation, financial modeling, operational KPI tracking, valuation analytics, and investment committee materials.
• Design and maintain data pipelines integrating internal systems, portfolio company data, third-party market data, and alternative data sources to enable real-time investment insights.
• Develop and oversee Python-based analytics platforms and reusable libraries to standardize underwriting models, scenario analyses, and portfolio diagnostics across strategies.
• Partner directly with investment professionals to translate complex business requirements into technical specifications and production-grade solutions.
• Embed artificial intelligence and advanced engineering tools (including large language model–enabled workflows and coding copilots such as Cursor, Claude, and similar platforms) into research, diligence, and reporting processes to enhance productivity and insight generation.
• Ensure high standards of system reliability, data integrity, governance, security, and auditability across platforms.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Risk, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Investor Relations to ensure seamless integration of investment systems with firmwide infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with adjacent investment engineering functions, such as Credit, to share standards, tooling, and best practices.
• Present technology strategy, roadmap progress, and key initiatives to senior leadership and investment committees.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance.
• Investment in people for the long term and commitment to supporting their development at every stage of their career.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed