Vice President, Credit Engineering Lead

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 – Collaborative, 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.

SUMMARY Ares is seeking a Vice President, Credit Engineering Lead to lead the design, development, and delivery of technology solutions supporting the firm's global credit investment platform. Reporting to the Head of Credit Technology, this role will serve as the engineering leader for the Credit Technology organization, responsible for building and evolving software platforms that support the credit investment lifecycle across deal origination, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, risk management, 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 simultaneously establishing engineering standards, modern architecture patterns, and software delivery best practices. The role will lead a growing team of software engineers and will be accountable for the end-to-end software development lifecycle across credit technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience building enterprise-grade applications within financial services environments, with deep expertise in modern full-stack development, cloud-native architectures, microservices, data platforms, messaging systems, and software engineering best practices. Experience supporting credit investment, lending, portfolio management, or alternative asset management platforms is strongly preferred. This individual will partner closely with Product Management, Credit Investment Professionals, Portfolio Management teams, Investment Operations, Data & AI teams, and broader Investment Technology leadership to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing technology solutions that support the firm's growing credit business. PRIMARY FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES: Engineering Leadership & Team Development  ·          Lead and mentor a team of software engineers supporting Credit 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.  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 credit investment 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 credit technology ecosystem.  ·          Define architecture standards for distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservices.  ·          Drive engineering decisions related to scalability, resiliency,