Data Engineer Python SQL Linux Aladdin Data Vice President
Data Engineer Python SQL Linux Aladdin Data Vice President
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About this role
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 business 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 endtoend investment management platform. With assets valued over USD $7 trillion managed on Aladdin our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement pay for college buy a home and improve their financial wellbeing.
Data is at the heart of Aladdin and increasingly the ability to consume store analyze and gain insight from data has become a key component of our competitive advantage. The DOE team is responsible for the data ecosystem within BlackRock. Our goal is to build and maintain a leadingedge data platform that provides highly available consistent data of the highest quality for all users of the platform notably investors operations teams and data scientists. We focus on evolving our platform to deliver exponential scale to the firm powering the future growth of Aladdin.
Data Pipeline Engineers at BlackRock get to experience working at one of the most recognized financial companies in the world while being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technologies and solutions. Our engineers design and build large scale data storage computation and distribution systems. They partner with data and analytics experts to deliver high quality analytical and derived data to our consumers.
We are looking for data engineers who like to innovate and seek complex problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity and will embrace your unique skills curiosity drive and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. We are committed to open source and we regularly give our work back to the community. Engineers looking to work in the areas of orchestration data modeling data pipelines APIs storage distribution distributed computation consumption and infrastructure are ideal candidates.
Responsibilities
Data Pipeline Engineers are expected to be involved from inception of projects understand requirements architect design develop deploy and maintain data pipelines (ETL / ELT) till data distribution. Typically they work in a multidisciplinary squad (we follow Agile! which involves partnering with program and product managers to expand product offering based on business demands. Design is an iterative process whether for UX services or infrastructure. Our goal is to drive up user engagement and adoption of the platform while constantly working towards modernizing and improving platform performance and scalability.
Deployment and maintenance require close interaction with various teams. This requires maintaining a positive and collaborative working relationship with teams within DOE as well as with wider Aladdin developer community. Production support for applications is usually required for issues that cannot be resolved by operations team. Creative and inventive problemsolving skills for reduced turnaround times are highly valued.
Preparing user documentation to maintain both development and operations continuity is integral to the role. Adhering to BlackRocks UX and design standards is expected and contributing towards upkeep of those standards is encouraged.
The squad lead develops the culture of design discussions and quality deliveries within team members builds familiarity with and take responsibility that the team is able to deliver in fast paced way with the bestinclass data tools.
And Ideal candidate would have
BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
At least 10 years experience as data engineer in a medium to large scale solutions out of which 3 years as lead engineer
Must have cloud development experience Azure GCP AWS
Development experience using Python SQL Linux is a must
Experience with Database Modeling Normalization techniques
Experience with objectoriented design patterns Micro services and API
Experience with dev ops tools like Git Maven Jenkins Gitlab CI Azure DevOps
Experience with Agile development concepts and related tools
Ability to trouble and fix performance issues across the codebase and database queries
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Passion for learning and implementing new technologies
Ability to operate under fastpaced environment
Skills that would be a plus
Snowflake
Perl
Experience in data warehousing
Experience supporting large scale complex analytics requirements
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 wellbeing. 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:www.linkedin/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.
Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
