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 hands-on technical manager to lead the efforts on their finance and investment performance applications. The technical manager will need to partner with users to determine requirements, design and implement applications, conduct testing, and oversee the efforts of the development team that they will have the opportunity to build out. 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:
- Serves as the head of financial technology systems for Blue Owl teams including Alt Credit, Credit, Real Assets, and Management Co
- Partner with key project stakeholders to define project scope and primary objectives based on business outcome expectations
- Influence business stakeholders to drive rapid consensus
- Operationally responsible for delivering a clear understanding and documentation of business requirements
- Strategic business analysis of projects ensuring alignment with overall business and tech strategies.
- Serve as the technology lead for system implementation, integration, enhancements and ongoing monitoring
- Create and manage project plans for every initiative and communicate timelines to all stakeholders at every level
- Ownership of global delivery roadmap, including project milestones, BAU, and support.
- Manage the oversight of status reporting and escalation of systems issues and delays and communicate to stakeholders
- Ownership in designing, building, implementing and supporting projects
- Work with developers on architecture and infrastructure strategy and roadmap
- Manage vendor resources and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a timely and seamless project delivery
- 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.
- Build and troubleshoot reporting with proprietary vendor applications
- Actively manage trade-offs between strategic and tactical implementation.
- Drive standardization, a control framework and constantly evaluate systems, processes and procedures for efficiency opportunities, making recommendations for improvements
- Act as data steward, synthesizing data and connecting dots to provide context and insight and exploring opportunities to enhance data sourcing and data governance
- Serve as Blue Owl liaison with technology vendors engaged by business stakeholders, seeking to foster a strong partnership relationship between all parties
- Serve as a thought leader for developing system prototypes and processes to minimize time-to-market for new system features
Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in a hands-on technical management role with a Private Equity firm or other Financial Services organization.
- Superior problem-solving skills with a process-oriented mindset and the ability to deliver well-structured analyses and clearly present findings
- 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)
- Ability to prioritize, take full ownership and responsibility of various tasks without losing attention to detail.
- Strong business and data analysis skills; working knowledge of debt and finance operations a strong plus
- 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
- Project management experience covering project inception through execution, implementation and closeout preferred
- Experience delivering high-performance and highly technical mission critical digital technology platforms in a business analysis and project management capacity.
- In-depth experience in Agile development practices and system integration through API, web services, or ETL with both proprietary and vendor systems.
Technical Qualifications:
- Strong hands-on coding skills.
- Must have technical skills; Python, C#, Node.JS, Angular / React, Azure and .NET
Additional experience with the following tools and skills (not required) :
- Order/Portfolio Management platforms (i.e. Aladdin, IVP, Geneva)
- Fund Accounting (books and records) Platforms (i.e. Investran, FM3)
- Treasury/Cash platforms (i.e. Hazeltree, Cashwire)
- Data Platforms/Tools – Snowflake, Databricks, SQL, Azure Data Factory
- Reporting Tools – Power BI or Tableau
Data Transfer – Dagster, GoAnywhere
Blue Owl is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.
