Want to elevate your career by being a part of the world's largest asset manager? Do you thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes stellar service? Are analyzing complex problems andidentifyingsolutions your passion? Look no further. BlackRock is currently seekingacandidateto become part of ourGlobal Investment OperationsDataEngineering team. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your rare skills, eagerness, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow professionally and as an individual.

We know you want to feel valued every single day and be recognized for your contribution. At BlackRock we strive to empower our employees and activelyengage your involvementin our success. With over USD$9.5trillionof assetsunder management,we have an extraordinary responsibility: our technology and services empower millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy ahomeand improve their financial well-being. Come join our team and experience what it feels like to be part of an organization that makes a difference.

Technology & Operations

Technology & Operations(T&O)is responsible forthe firm's worldwide operations across all asset classes and geographies. The operational functions are aligned with clients, products, fundstructuresand ourThird-partyprovider networks.Within T&O,Global Investment Operations(GIO)is responsible forthe development of the firm's operating infrastructure to support BlackRock's investment businesses worldwide. GIO spans Trading & Market Documentation, Transaction Management, Collateral Management & Payments, Asset Servicing including Corporate Actions and Cash & Asset Operations, and Securities Lending Operations. GIO provides operational service to BlackRock's Portfolio Managers and Traders globallyas well asindustry leadingservice to our end clients.

GIO Engineering

Working in close partnership with GIO business users and other technology teams throughout Blackrock,GIO Engineeringis responsible fordeveloping and providing data and software solutionsthatsupport GIO business processesglobally.GIO Engineering solutions combinetechnology,data, and domainexpertiseto drive exception-based, function-agnostic,service-orientatedworkflows, data pipelines, and management dashboards.

The Role –DataEngineering

Work to date has been focused on building out robust data pipelines and lakes relevanttospecific business functions, along with associated pools and Tableau /PowerBIdashboards for internal BlackRock clients. The next stage in the project involvesAzure / Snowflake integration and commercializing the offeringso BlackRock’s 150+ Aladdin clientscanleveragethe same curated data products and dashboards that are available internally.

The successful candidatewillcontribute tothe technicaldesign and delivery ofa curated line of data products, related pipelines, and visualizationsin collaboration with SMEsacrossGIO,Technology and Operations, and the Aladdin business.

Responsibilities

Specifically, we expect the role toinvolve thefollowingcore responsibilitiesand would expect a successful candidate to be able todemonstratethe following (not in order of priority)

• Design,develop andmaintaina Data Analytics Infrastructure

• Work with a project manager or drivethe project management ofteam deliverables

• Work with subject matter expertsand usersto understand the business and their requirements. Helpdeterminetheoptimaldataset and structure to deliver on those user requirements

• Work within astandard data / technology deployment workflow to ensure that alldeliverablesandenhancements areprovidedin a disciplined, repeatable,and robust manner

• Work withteam leadtounderstand and helpprioritize the team’s queueofwork

• Automate periodic(daily/weekly/monthly/Quarterly or other)reportingprocessestominimize /eliminateassociated developer BAU activities.

• Leverage industry standard and internal tooling whenever possiblein order toreduce the amount of custom code that requires maintenance

Experience

• 3+ years of experience in writing ETL, data curation and analytical jobs usingHadoop-baseddistributed computingtechnologies:Spark/PySpark, Hive,etc.

• 3+years of knowledge and Experience ofworking with large enterprise databasespreferably Cloud bases data bases/ data warehouses like Snowflake on Azure or AWS set-up

• Knowledge and ExperienceinworkingwithData Science/Machine/ Gen AILearningframeworks inPython,Azure/openAI, meta tec.

• Knowledge and Experiencebuilding reporting and dashboards using BITools:Tableau,MSPowerBI, etc.

• Prior Experience working on Source Code version Management tools likeGITHubetc.

• Prior experience working with and followingAgile-based workflow paths andticket-based development cycles

• Prior Experience setting-up infrastructure and working on Big Data analytics

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, anddisseminatesignificant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy

• Experience working withSMEs /Business Analysts,andworking withStakeholdersforsign-off

Want to learn more?

For 30 years, to drive innovation, BlackRock has bought great minds together. From the verybeginningtechnology wasleveragedfor insight and efficiency to help our businesses better understand their client’s objectives. Again, BlackRock is accelerating innovation and technology to invest even more in their Aladdin platform and looking for people with a passion for technology and a love of solving complex problems to join their teams.