Data Operations, Vice President/Principal

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

With over $315 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, Real Assets and GP Strategic Capital. 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 1,390 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com

The Role

Blue Owl is hiring a Data Operations, Vice President/Principal that will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling data and technology solutions that support reporting, performance measurement, and decision-making across the Blue Owl platform. The role partners closely with engineering and business stakeholders to decompose complex systems, integrate disparate data sources, and deliver production-grade data pipelines from ingestion through output.

With a strong blend of technical depth and business acumen, this role translates financial and operational logic into scalable, automated solutions and supports key investment and fund performance reporting,

Responsibilities

• Work directly within the Operations team to execute key data and technology initiatives impacting across the Blue Owl platform

• Integrate discrete systems and functions to drive target reporting outcomes across the business

• Decompose systems into component parts and build the case for transformation

• Design and own data pipelines end to end — from ingestion through reconciliation and output

• Work directly with engineering to build and quickly deploy solutions

• Translate between business logic and technical implementation without losing fidelity on either side

• Support reporting of key KPIs related to investment and fund performance

• Implement tools and automate the calculation of performance metrics for internal and external reporting

• Manage and develop a small team of analysts as the function grows

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience; specific asset management background not required

• Hands-on fluency with data - SQL, Python, or equivalent; familiarity with modern architectures and technologies

• A track record of building and improving technical and complex systems, both as a manager and as a builder

• Experience building or managing data pipelines end to end in production environments

• Experience in fintech or payments, combining strong financial logic with complex with technical plumbing

• Background in data engineering, with a pipeline-first mindset, strong systems decomposition skills, and production-grade discipline

• Exposure to supply chain or logistics environments, designing and operating multi-party systems at scale

• Experience in defense tech, modernizing legacy systems within compliance-heavy environments

• Comfort operating in domains you do not initially understand and a willingness to learn

• Enthusiasm for financial markets

The base annual salary range for this New York-based position will be $150,000 to $200,000. Actual salary offered will be based on the candidate’s skill, experience, and qualification for the role. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, based on factors such as individual and team performance. 

Benefits for this role include Health, Dental and Vision insurance, 401(k), Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Short Term Disability insurance, Long Term Disability Insurance, Family Planning Support, Paid Time Off, and Leave of Absences. All such benefits are subject to the terms/conditions of the Company’s benefits plans and policies.