Algo Engineer (GenAI Focus), Liability Driven Investment (LDI), Associate

About this role

About the team

The Fixed Income Solutions (FIS) business at BlackRock sits within the Portfolio Management Group (PMG) and operates globally across London New York Atlanta San Francisco Gurgaon and Mumbai. FIS partners closely with clients to design implement and manage outcomeoriented investment solutions.

The Liability Driven Investment (LDI) business is a distinct part of FIS which leverages the breadth and depth of the entire platform when delivering investment solutions for our clients. BlackRock has been managing LDI mandates for over 20 years. We are passionate about designing and implementing fixed income solutions to help primarily pension fund clients to meet their long-term investment objectives. Our day to day activities range from monitoring the markets modelling solutions and formulating the investment proposition to trade construction to designing the operational structure of the mandate and working with multiple BlackRock teams to implement it.

LDI Technology is a dedicated technology team embedded within the LDI business. The teams mandate is to materially improve LDI investment and client workflows by building highquality scalable and wellgoverned technology solutions.

Role overview

We are seeking an Associate level technologist to join the LDI Technology team.

This role is focused on designing building and maintaining Pythonbased technology used across the LDI business with a significant proportion of time dedicated to Generative AI initiatives. The successful candidate will help identify GenAI opportunities build prototypes and develop productionready solutions including defining the data models and data strategy required to support them.

The role is suited to a handson engineer who has a keen interest in working closely with the business taking ownership of real problems and applying engineering and AI techniques to investment workflows.

Key responsibilities

• Design implement and maintain Pythonbased platforms and tools supporting LDI investment and client workflows.

• Work endtoend across the development lifecycle: requirements gathering development testing deployment and production support.

• Apply strong software engineering rigor including version control testing documentation and monitoring.

• Debug and resolve complex technical issues across applications data and infrastructure.

Generative AI and data strategy

• Identify prototype and implement Generative AI use cases across LDI investment analytics and operational workflows.

• Design and build the data models required to support GenAIenabled tools including defining how data should be structured and used.

• Source obtain curate and store internal data building and maintaining proprietary datasets to support analytics and GenAI applications.

• Progress successful GenAI experiments into robust wellgoverned production solutions.

• Partner with internal technology and governance teams to ensure solutions meet BlackRocks control security and data standards.

Business partnership

• Develop a strong understanding of LDI investment processes and the data that underpins them.

• Work closely with investors and LDI colleagues to identify high impact technology opportunities.

• Support users in adopting new technology and integrating it into established workflows.

• Guide less experienced colleagues by collaborating closely forming emerging approaches and building out a common code library

• Partner with firmwide technology platforms including Aladdin to shape requirements support testing and integrate new capabilities into the LDI business.

Skills and experience required

Essential

• Quantitative or technical background (Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field).

• Strong Python experience with the ability to build productiongrade tools.

• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle.

• Handson experience with Generative AI and data strategy including:

• Applying naturallanguage models to extract and manipulate information in a structured and repeatable way

• Building automated pipelines to ingest store and transform data for ongoing use

• Defining and owning the data models and data strategy required to support GenAI use cases.

• Integrating GenAI outputs into downstream analytics or investment workflows in a robust and scalable way.

• Strong problemsolving skills with a structured processoriented mindset.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative businessembedded technology team.

Beneficial

• Knowledge of Finance or Fixed Income markets in particular

• Familiarity with BlackRock platforms such as Aladdin.

• Experience with analytics optimisation or portfoliorelated tooling.

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.

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