Agentic AI & Data Platform Architecture, BlackRock Global Markets, Director

About this role

BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is the worlds largest asset manager. Within BlackRock the BlackRock Global Markets (BGM) group provides the firms investment teams with access to markets liquidity financing and additional sources of return across index equity fixed income trading and lending. Within BGM the Platform Data & Analytics team builds and operates the data analytics and AI platforms that underpin these businesses the engineering foundation for how BGM creates delivers and governs India BlackRock operates from Gurgaon Mumbai and Bengaluru offering a flexible hybrid work model modern office environments and a comprehensive benefits package supporting longterm growth and wellbeing.

We are seeking a Directorlevel platform leader to own the technical architecture and build plan for BGMs AInative agentic data platform designed around a deliberate duallane architecture:

• Analytics Lane (Enterprise Data Platform / Snowflake) governed analytical serving certified data and broad consumption.

• AI & Agentic Execution Lane feature engineering embeddings vector workflows model training and inference agentic systems and closedloop production feedback.

This role owns the endtoend technical blueprint for the AI and agentic lane including clean integration with the analytics lane and with BGMs broader platform ecosystem Aladdin Data and the Enterprise AI Platform (RockAI). Rather than assuming a single vendor stack the role requires strong technical judgement to determine where to build internally where to adopt external technologies and how to assemble these into a cohesive system.

This is a handson technical leadership and teambuilding role: the successful candidate will establish and grow a platform engineering function in India.

• Define and evolve the target architecture spanning ingestion streaming storage feature and embedding pipelines model and agent execution and production inference.

• Establish clear workload and lifecycle boundaries between analytics consumption experimentation agentic workflows and downstream integration.

• Make deliberate buildvsleverage decisions across internal platforms and external technologies designing clean integration contracts between components.

• Treat data features embeddings models and agents as firstclass artefacts with defined ownership lifecycle states and promotion semantics.

• Design the platform so that progressive automation is an architectural property. Systems should support graduated autonomy from humanexecuted to fully autonomous governed by trust and evidence.

• Ensure the platform enables structured assessment of which workflows are ready for automation based on repeatability judgement requirements and operational complexity.

• Provide architectural stewardship through design reviews mentoring and continuous evolution of platform standards.

• Partner with BGMs data governance leadership (based in San Francisco NYC LON) to embed governance architecturally through metadata lifecycle controls and platform defaults.

• Build and lead a highperforming platform engineering team in India. This is a greenfield function. Work closely with the Automation & Reliability Lead to ensure architecture decisions are operationally viable.

• A clear adopted target architecture that materially reduces bespoke builds and platform fragmentation.

• Teams can progress from raw data to agentic workflows and production execution using standard governed patterns.

• The platform demonstrably enables progressive automation with automation readiness as a design property not a retrofit.

• 15 years in backend data or platform engineering with deep expertise designing and building distributed systems at scale. 8 years in technical leadership roles.

• Strong grounding in modern data and compute technologies (e.g. Spark streaming platforms orchestration frameworks lakehousestyle architectures).

• Proven experience building platforms from heterogeneous components not just operating singlevendor environments.

• Strong engineering fundamentals (Python SQL system design data modelling) and a commitment to engineering quality.

• Demonstrated ability to build lead and mentor senior engineering teams with strong communication across technical and executive stakeholders.

• Experience with AInative platforms in production (feature stores model registries vector databases inference serving).

• Experience integrating internal and external platforms in regulated or complex enterprise environments.

• Financial services experience. A practical innovative mindset with the confidence to make tradeoffs and the humility to revisit them.

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

BlackRocks 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 childrens 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. Its why were 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: 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.