Vice President - Data Engineering

About this role

What is Aladdin Studio?

When BlackRock was started in 1988, its founders envisioned a company that combined the best of financial services with cutting edge technology. They imagined a company that would provide financial services to clients as well as technology services to other financial firms. The result of their vision is Aladdin, our industry leading, end-to-end investment management platform.

Aladdin Studio ("Studio") is an integrated platform to discover data, build financial applications, and connect Aladdin to other applications. Studio enables and empowers development for the entire Aladdin community - from citizen developers to full-time engineers. It includes Aladdin’s API surface, cloud investment data platform – the Aladdin Data Cloud, and hosted developer environment – Aladdin Compute.

Team Overview:

Data is at the core of the Aladdin platform, and increasingly, our ability to consume, store, analyze, and gain insight from data is a key component of our competitive advantage. As part of Aladdin Studio, The Aladdin Data Cloud (ADC) Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining data-as-a-service solution for all the data management and transformation needs. We engineer high performance data pipelines, provide a fabric to discover and consume data, and continually evolve our data surface capabilities.

As a Data engineer in the ADC Engineering team, you will: -

• Work alongside our engineers to help design and build scalable data pipelines while evolving the data surface.

• Help prove out and productionize Cloud Native Infrastructure and tooling to support scalable data cloud.

• Have fun as part of an awesome team.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary squad to establish our next generation of data pipelines and tools

• Be involved from inception of projects, understanding requirements, designing & developing solutions, and incorporating them into the designs of our platforms

• Mentor team members on technology and best practices

• Maintain excellent knowledge of the technical landscape for data & cloud tooling

• Assist in troubleshooting issues, support the operation of production software

• Write technical documentation

Desirable Skills

• 8+ years of industry experience in data engineering area.

• Passion for engineering and optimizing data sets, data pipelines and architecture.

• Ability to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, lineage, and metadata.

• Knowledge of SQL and performance tuning. Experience with Snowflake is preferred.

• Good understanding of languages such as Python/Java

• Understanding of software deployment and orchestration technologies such as airflow etc.

• Experience with dbt is preferred.

• Working knowledge of building and deploying distributed systems

• Experience in creating and evolving CI/CD pipelines with GitLab or Azure Dev Ops.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.