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VP Application Engineering

Employer
BlackRock
Location
New York, USA
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
May 29, 2022

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Job Function
Other
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
Description

About this role

Data Engineer - Aladdin Data Cloud

Through Aladdin, our clients trust is to process, manage and store their most valuable data. In the Aladdin Data Cloud (ADC) we are building the industry's most comprehensive and feature rich financial data mesh. Leveraging our close partnership with Snowflake, 3rd party data providers and the Aladdin Provider network we are uniquely positioned to deliver on the potential of a fully integrated investment data platform.

As a senior engineer in the Aladdin Data Cloud team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and deploying the platform components required to execute our product roadmap. Working alongside the ADC product team, data operations and data engineering teams you will work on a mix of first party APIs and services as well as industry standard components deployed on our Snowflake and Azure based platform to deliver high quality data and features to our global Aladdin clients. As a senior engineer in the Aladdin Studio group, you will also be expected to work across the suite of capabilities as we collectively realize the open developer platform for Aladdin.

We are a global team with engineers and product managers based in New York, London, and Gurgaon.

Responsibilities
  • Design and deliver future state data ingestion capabilities using industry standard tooling like Apache Airflow, dbt and others
  • Drive development of data consumption and management capabilities including metadata APIs, data access APIs and services to manage compute and entitlements
  • Mentor team members and share experience of best practices around data modelling, pipeline design and operation and data quality
  • Lead onboarding of new datasets onto Aladdin Datawarehouse / Aladdin Data Cloud by being hands-on involved with understanding the data model, creation of database objects, store procs and/or stage tables, updating ETL jobs and rolling out new datasets to users across growing set of clients
  • Work closely with multiple product teams and enterprise information architect to develop the data model required to deliver reporting ready, curated data to our users
  • Leverage DevOps principles and build a culture of automation to reduce manual interactions across the platform and realize scale and resiliency
  • Be part of a highly performant, Agile engineering team, constantly providing feedback to improve our culture and agile process

Qualifications
  • Demonstrated excellence working with enterprise scale analytical data platforms
  • 7+ years of experience as a software or data platform engineer
  • Experience with database fundamentals like SQL, DDL, store procedures, etc
  • Experience with Python
  • Background in data modelling, date pipeline design and management
  • Experience with financial data, ideally timeseries, bi-temporal data modelling
  • Experience with Apache Airflow, dbt, Snowflake or similar cloud based analytical data platform would be a plus
  • Strong analytical, data architecture and software architecture design skills
  • Effective communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) are required
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or engineering preferred.


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.

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 careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action 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.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

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