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Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.\nOaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.\nFor additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/\nOur Company\nAs a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.\nOaktree is 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.\nOaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.\nFor additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/\nResponsibilities\nThe Senior Associate will join Oaktree’s Forward Deployment Engineering team and play a key role in delivering AI-forward, data-driven solutions that improve the way investment, portfolio management, reporting and operational teams access, analyze and act on information. This individual will partner closely with investment professionals, project managers, technology, data teams and global support teams to build tactical solutions that provide immediate business lift, modernize reporting processes, and help design scalable tools that can be maintained and enhanced over time.\nResponsibilities include:\nPartner with investment professionals, portfolio management teams, client reporting teams, middle office teams, project managers and technology and data stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve reporting, analytics and operational workflows.\nOwn solutions from initial discovery and prototype through deployment, documentation, training and transition to long-term support teams.\nDesign, develop and enhance Power BI reports, dashboards, semantic models and data products that support a range of funds, strategies and business use cases.\nBuild AI-forward, data-driven solutions using tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and related platforms to streamline reporting, analysis, workflow automation and decision support.\nCreate practical technical solutions, including data models, reporting layers, workflow tools and prototypes.\nPerform data engineering activities as needed, including sourcing, transforming, validating and structuring data for reporting, analytics and downstream consumption.\nDevelop tactical firmwide solutions that provide immediate lift across a variety of funds, strategies and business teams while balancing speed, quality and maintainability.\nChallenge existing processes and identify better ways to deliver accurate, timely and scalable reporting and analytics.\nCollaborate with global teams, including teams in India, to transition developed solutions into sustainable support models, including documentation, training and knowledge transfer.\nWork with stakeholders to understand investment, portfolio management, cash management, client reporting and operational needs, and incorporate that understanding into solution design.\nSupport reporting and analytical needs related to portfolio management, fixed income, private credit, cash management, fund reporting, fact sheets and client reporting, as applicable.\nEvaluate opportunities to apply AI, automation and modern data tools to reduce manual work, improve controls and increase transparency.\nCommunicate project status, risks, dependencies and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nPerform various other tasks and projects as necessary.\nQualifications\n4-7 years of relevant experience in data analytics, business intelligence, financial technology, investment operations, middle office, portfolio reporting.\nFamiliarity with building Power BI dashboards, reports and semantic models.\nSQL skills, including experience querying, validating, transforming and analyzing data.\nMicrosoft Fabric or similar modern data platforms preferred.\nExperience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or similar platforms to improve productivity and workflows.\nWorking knowledge of data engineering concepts, including data ingestion, transformation and validation.\nAbility to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.\nUnderstanding of investment management, portfolio management, cash management, client reporting or middle office processes preferred.\nFixed income, private credit, alternative investment or asset management experience is a plus.\nKnowledge with fact sheets, portfolio analytics or recurring client/investor reporting is a plus.\nFinancial modeling experience is a plus.\nStrong analytical, quantitative and problem-solving skills.\nExcellent attention to detail.\nAbility to think critically and challenge current processes.\nStrong Excel and Microsoft Office skills.\nKnowledge with Python, DAX, Power Query, Power Automate or workflow automation tools is a plus.\nKnowledge with PySpark or other large-scale data processing tools is a plus.\nStrong communication skills with both business and technical audiences.\nKnowledge of Advent Geneva or GWI data a plus.\nPersonal Attributes\nThe successful candidate will have outstanding initiative, an eagerness to learn and a strong work ethic\nCollaborative, team-oriented individual with strong sense of integrity and professionalism\nDemonstrate non-linear thinking and have excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills\nAbility to prioritize and manage multiple competing tasks\nCurious and AI-forward mindset.\nWillingness to learn new technologies, investment concepts and operational processes.\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree required.\nBase Salary Range\n$130,000 - $160,000\nIn addition to a competitive base salary, you will be eligible to receive discretionary bonus incentives, a comprehensive benefits package and a flexible work arrangement. The base salary offered will be commensurate with experience and/or qualifications, industry knowledge and expertise, as well as prior training and education.\nEqual Opportunity Employment Policy\nOaktree 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.\nFor positions based in Los Angeles\nFor 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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8866,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Real Estate","Business & SME Lending","Asset Management & Funds","Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T23:42:51Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 3","filings_12m":3,"filings_prev_12m":7,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":197500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-10T11:34:35+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T02:32:53Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":160000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/oaktree-capital-management-senior-associate-forward-deployment-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/oaktree-capital-management-senior-associate-forward-deployment-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T02:32:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":717,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":35047},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=35047"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Foaktree-capital-management-senior-associate-forward-deployment-engineer-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Foaktree-capital-management-senior-associate-forward-deployment-engineer-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Foaktree-capital-management-senior-associate-forward-deployment-engineer-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/oaktree-capital-management-senior-associate-forward-deployment-engineer-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Foaktree-capital-management-senior-associate-forward-deployment-engineer-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4045444}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"oaktreecapital.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4045444},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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