Senior Technical Lead, Vice President

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives®. 
 

With over $250 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, GP Strategic Capital, and Real Assets. Anchored by a
strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies
​differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.

Together with over 1,100 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com.

The Role:

The Operations and Finance Technology team is seeking a Technical Lead Developer (VP level) to lead the efforts on the Finance and Investment Performance applications.  The technical lead will need to partner with users to determine requirements, design and implement  applications, conduct testing, and oversee the efforts of the development team.  The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, inquisitive, and push for the best possible solutions while meeting timelines and requirements.  Flexibility, prioritization, accepting of challenges, rolling up your sleeves, and communication with users and management will be keys to success.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with business users and vendors on defining strategy, requirements, project plan, execution plan, test plan, troubleshooting issues, etc.
• Manage small and large size projects. Keep track of tasks. Regular follow ups. Running meetings with senior people on the business side, etc.
• Design, build, test, and deploy software applications and features
• Carry software products through the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Write clean, concise, and efficient code
• Manage code documentation and version control
• Work in an agile environment to release software on a regular schedule
• Troubleshoot and debug software
• Act as the first line of support for system issues and work with vendor/internal technical resources to triage and fix bugs and system outages.
• Participate in on-call rotation to respond to production issues
• Act as data steward, synthesizing data and connecting dots to provide context and insight and exploring opportunities to enhance data sourcing and data governance
• Analyze large volume of data utilizing various tools (excel, power BI, etc.) and even write their own scripts (python).
• Operate as a single person team as well as part of the larger team. Operate independently with minimal oversight from direct manager.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in a tech lead / software developer role.
• Strong hands-on coding skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to talk to the business, synthesizing complex ideas into clear messages and translating needs into IT requirements.
• Experience in financial services preferred
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Superior organizational skills; ability to multi-task and flex with changing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to lead on-shore/off-shore development teams with mixed disciplines (tech, QA, data, analysis)
• In-depth experience in Agile development practices and system integration through API, web services, or ETL with both proprietary and vendor systems.
• Experience of working in a regulated environment and the associated processes and tools
• Ability to prioritize, take full ownership and responsibility of various tasks without losing attention to detail.
• Must have technical skills; Python, C#, C+, Node.JS, Angular / React, Azure and .NET
• Nic to have technical skills; Dagster, Power BI, Snowflake products, Finance application/domain knowledge, Salesforce, Microsoft Power Apps

It is expected that the base annual salary range for this New York City-based position will be $150,000 - $170,000. Actual salaries may vary based on factors, such as skill, experience, and qualification for the role. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, based on factors such as individual and team performance.