Vice President Data Governance

BlackRock is one of the worlds preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management risk management and advisory services to institutional intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the worlds capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures including individual and institutional separate accounts mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles and the industry-leading iShares ETFs.

Role Brief:

TheAladdinData GovernanceOfficeis responsible for ensuring the data needs within BlackRock and the clients of BlackRock Solutions are fulfilled with well governed complete accurate and timely data along withenablingopportunitiestocommercialize the firms data.

As aVice Presidentof Data Governance you will support a growing area in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Supportthe firmwide rollout and execution of the Critical Investment Data (CID) Governance Policy coordinating across federated COOs delegatesdatastewards anddataproduct owners to ensure all businesses register document and govern their datasets consistently and endtoend.

• Partner with COOs delegates and data owners to activate BlackRocks Data Strategy and implement governance policies standards and operating models with consistent adoption across the data lifecycle.

• Build strong influential relationships across the federated data governance network aligning priorities encourage knowledge sharing and driving sustained execution across the firm.

• Run firmwide and federated data governance forums andworking groupsto review policy activation dataset compliance issues risksunderstandnewplatform/toolrequirements driving clear actions and accountability.

• Support the deploymentgovernance capabilities data taxonomyand tools across federated groups coordinating readiness onboarding training and ongoing adoption while supporting teams in interpreting metadata and data requirements and integrating governance into their processes.

• Facilitate crossbusiness collaboration and knowledgesharing bysupporting a datacommunity hosting cross-group sessionsdistributing playbooksmethodologies andbest practicestofederatedstewards and product teams.

• Guide federated groups in data profiling dataset creation metadata documentationdataquality monitoring entitlements and issue management helping them apply datagovernance standardsandcontrols.

• Collect synthesize and report governance metrics across federated organizations providing transparency to senior leadership on adoption progress gaps and areas requiring escalation.

• Develop and deliver training and education programs for federated stewards COOs product owners and operations teams to expand governance capabilities and reinforce core responsibilities.

• Work witha diverse team that partners deeply with federated groups to deliver governance capabilities elevate data quality and drive measurable business impact.

• This function will expose the candidate to a wide range of BlackRockData andbusinesses and will require him/her to work closely with internal clients such as portfolio management account management operations BlackRock Solutions as well as external providers and users of data

Qualifications / Requirements:

• 810 years of experience in data governance enterprise data management or enterprise technology driving policy adoption platform/tool rollout or largescale data initiatives.

• Strong communication facilitation and relationshipbuilding skills including leading crossfunctional forums resolving issues across teams driving clarity accountability and alignment in a federated environment and a passion for data and data governance.

• Deep experience driving enterprisescale data governance execution including policy activation federated operating models and endtoend dataset lifecycle governance (registration metadata quality entitlements issue management).

• Proven ability to influence and partner with senior stakeholders (COOs delegates product owners data stewards engineering/operations) to drive consistent adoption of governance standards across diverse businesses.

• Goodunderstanding of financial markets investment workflows and the data that powers them with familiarity across instruments entities/issuer master ESG or other investment domain datasets.

• Handson capability working with datasets across platforms (SQL/Python required)and data governance tools including ability to interpret metadata assess controls review profiling results and translate business needs into clear data specifications.

• Demonstrated experience owning or implementing data policies standards taxonomies and controls with a strong grasp of how governance requirements integrate into business and operational processes.

• Experience rolling out data tools capabilities or platforms at scale including readiness assessments onboarding training and driving sustained adoption across federated groups. Experience with Snowflake/cloud data ecosystems is a plus.

• Ability to synthesize governance metrics and insights highlight adoption progress identify gaps and create clear executiveready reporting for senior leadership.

• Strong problemsolving skills with the ability to connect technical operational and business considerations think critically about complex challenges and develop practical scalable solutions.

• Experience with largescale data programs in data governance data management or related disciplines ideally spanning multiple asset classes or investment processes.

• Ability to work effectively in a fastpaced highstakes environment balancing multiple priorities while maintaining quality accuracy and attention to detail.

• Experience with Agile methodologies and dataplatform&tooling (SQL Python JupyterSybase Snowflake Hadoop/Spark SQL BI tools such as PowerBI/Tableau) is desirable.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in data management information systems or a related field.