Associate - Data Quality & Monitoring

Our Company

Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $224 billion in assets under management.  The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities.  The firm has over 1500 employees and offices in 26 cities worldwide.

We are committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

For additional information please visit our website at www.oaktreecapital.com.

Responsibilities

As a Data Quality & Operations Associate within Oaktree's Data Solutions team, you will be responsible for building data quality rules across various data domains and critical data sets/attributes and maintain integrity, freshness, completeness and trustworthy of data for the downstream consumers without any business impact. This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between data engineering and business operations, maintaining high quality and integrity of our data assets across the source/target systems. You will be tasked with building robust data quality/operational model/processes that support the firm’s data-driven decision-making while ensuring that data quality operations are fully integrated into our technical environment for future growth.

Responsibilities include:

• Populate data quality rules/validations across critical data at an enterprise into data quality template by effectively co ordinating with business/technical teams for long-term scalability and efficiency.
• Develop and implement a cohesive data quality and exception handling practice that proactively monitors and resolves quality issues, partnering with data data owners, data stewards throughout the organization.
• Serve as the primary line of defense for diagnosing data quality issues, performing root cause analysis, and working directly with technical teams or business stakeholders to remediate issues and develop corrective actions.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of data quality monitoring/operations, ensuring data pipelines are efficiently and accurately catching data quality issues and exception handling, with minimal/zero disruption to downstream users.
• Collaborate with technology and data governance teams to ensure upstream data issues are addressed and that validation processes are updated as necessary to ensure long-term data integrity, freshness and completeness.
• Develop performance metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness of data quality in the form of DQ Dashboard, continuous improvement without compromising in the quality.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data management, data operations, data quality, cataloging and monitoring.
• Knowledge of the asset management industry and financial data concepts.  Experience in a fast-paced, exacting data environment.
• Familiar with semantic data models, modern data architecture such as Kimbal, medallion, fabric etc.
• Expertise in building data quality rules/ validation frameworks, and data governance processes, with the ability to integrate operational practices into engineering frameworks for long-term scalability.
• Familiarity with querying tools (e.g., SQL), Python, Monitoring the job schedules, system performance health checks on daily basis, sending alerts to downstream teams for any data load delays or breaching the SLAs, diagnosing issues from job status/logs and generating data quality dashboards in Power BI or any other visualization tools.
• Triaging the issues by effectively coordinating with business/data engineering development teams for permanent fixes and communicate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) across all the users
• . Expertise in Data Quality, Data Catalog/Lineage tools such as Microsoft Purview, Alation a plus

Personal Attributes

• Relationship Building; works effectively with strong, diverse teams of people with multiple perspectives, talents, and backgrounds.  He or she is known for doing what is best irrespective of politics and is comfortable with consensus building (at multiple levels) and soliciting constructive feedback; ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of participants including upper management, clients, other departments, and 3rd party providers.
• Communication; strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills; ability to present complex material.
• Independence & Collaboration; experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment; must be able to drive work effectively with limited supervision (at times) while representing department and executive management interests and concerns.
• Work Ethic; focus on continual development, performance, accountability, and self-motivation.
• Flexibility & Organization; adapt to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities; proven ability to multi-task and efficiently manage time across competing activities/resources; able to effectively prioritize, execute tasks, and thrive in a high-pressure fast paced environment.
• Intellectual Curiosity; energized by learning new things and engaging across a wide range of issues; must have strong problem-solving skills; understand the importance of attention to detail, adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products; displays a technical aptitude that lends itself to learning and mastering new technologies.
• Driving Results; sets aggressive timelines and objectives to drive results, conveys a sense of urgency, and drives issues to closure; is a self-starter committed to achieving results and has a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
• Judgment; makes recommendations and decisions that balance a variety of factors.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field.

Shift timings: 1PM - 10 PM or 2PM - 11PM

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service,  marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.

This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.

For positions based in Los Angeles

For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.