Application Engineer Aladdin Vice President

About this role

Are you interested in building innovative technology that crafts financial markets Do you like working at the speed of a startup and solving some of the worlds most exciting challenges Do you want to work with and learn from hands-on leaders in technology and finance

At BlackRock we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity and will embrace your outstanding skills curiosity and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

We invest and protect over $14 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement pay for college buy a home and improve their financial well-being.

Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most sophisticated financial companies and being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.

What is Aladdin and Trading Devops Engineering

You will be working on BlackRocks investment operating system called Aladdin. Aladdin is used both internally within BlackRock and externally by many financial institutions. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management trading and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making and create a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.

Our development teams reside inside the Aladdin Engineering group. We collaboratively build the next generation of technology that changes the way information people and technology intersect for global investment firms. Trading platform is a complex multi-language codebase (Java npm/JavaScript Python C) with intricate dependency structures. This role focuses on uplifting developer productivity modernizing build systems and driving cloud-native transformation.

Being a member of Aladdin Engineering you will be:

• Tenacious: Work in a fast paced and highly complex environment
• Creative thinker: Analyse multiple solutions and deploy technologies in a flexible way.
• Great teammate: Think and work collaboratively and communicate effectively.
• Fast learner: Pick up new concepts and apply them quickly.

Qualifications:

• B.E./ ./ MCA or any other relevant engineering degree from a reputed university.
• 9 years of experience

Skills and Experience:

Build Systems & Developer Productivity (Critical)

• 7 years in DevOps Platform Engineering or Build Infrastructure roles
• Deep expertise in modern build systems: Hands-on experience with Bazel Pants Buck or Gradle for large-scale multi-language monorepos
• Proven track record of improving build speeds and success rates in complex codebases (50% improvement metrics preferred)
• Experience managing polyglot build pipelines spanning Java C Python and JavaScript/npm ecosystems
• Strong understanding of dependency management across multiple package managers (Maven npm pip etc.
• Experience with build caching strategies (remote caching incremental builds hermetic builds)
• Ability to analyze and resolve complex dependency graphs and circular dependency issues
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle agile methodologies and best engineering practices.
• Familiarity with source control at scale (Git LFS Git subtrees or similar for large binary assets)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an analytical mindset.
• Experience taking emotional ownership of the design and development of a significant application system or keycomponent. Ability to form positive relationships with partnering teams sponsors and user groups in a distributed team environment.

• Demonstrate an ability to build real-time applications or apps that process large volumes of data yet remain highly responsive even in high-latency environments.
• Experience with the Agile SDLC with a quality-first mindset and high test-coverage using test frameworks like Cypress Jest Mocha Karma etc.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Expertise designing high-performance CI/CD pipelines for multi-language projects
• Experience with CI platforms: Azure DevOps GitHub
• Knowledge of artifact management across ecosystems (Artifactory NPM registry PyPI)

Cloud-Native & Multi-Cloud

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration
• Experience with multi-cloud architecture (AWS Azure GCP) and cloud-agnostic tooling
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code like Terraform
• Understanding of containerization for C/Java/Python workloads (Docker buildpacks)
• Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD Flux) for declarative deployments
• Knowledge of service mesh and cloud-native networking patterns

Strategic & Leadership

• Experience acting as technical liaison between product engineering teams and central platform/infrastructure teams
• Ability to influence roadmaps and drive alignment on tooling and platform decisions
• Track record of driving adoption of new tools and practices across engineering teams
• Strong communication skills to articulate technical strategy to senior leadership
• Experience creating migration plans for legacy systems to modern stacks

Language & Ecosystem Expertise (Required)

• Java (Strong): Build tooling (Maven Gradle Bazel rules) JVM tuning for builds
• C (Moderate to Strong): CMake Bazel C rules linking/compilation optimization
• Python (Moderate): pip Poetry Pants/Bazel Python rules virtual environments
• JavaScript/npm (Moderate): npm/yarn/pnpm bundlers (webpack esbuild) Bazel JS rules

Preferred Experience

• Trading/Financial Systems
• Experience in trading systems capital markets or fintech environments
• Understanding of low-latency requirements and their impact on build/deploy pipelines
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance considerations in financial software delivery

Preferred AI Skills:

• Familiarity with using AI coding assistants to improve DevOps workflows such as CI/CD pipelines infrastructureascode authoring automated testing and runbook generation.
• Exposure to agentic LLM frameworks (e.g. LangChain LangGraph) to automate multistep operational workflows like environment provisioning release validation or incident triage.
• Working knowledge of LLMs and prompt design applied to operational contexts such as analysing logs alerts metrics deployment artefacts or configuration state.
• Experience or interest in building RAG pipelines to enable semantic search across runbooks monitoring data postmortems and internal DevOps documentation.
• Awareness of vector databases and embeddingbased retrieval to support incident similarity detection alert correlation or operational knowledge retrieval.
• Exposure to applying LLMs for configuration mapping normalisation and environment drift detection across cloud Kubernetes and legacy infrastructure.
• Interest in AI system reliability concepts such as guardrails validation observability explainability and humanintheloop controls for production operations.
• Familiarity with AIassisted operational analytics or decision support including capacity trends anomaly detection and release risk signals.
• Awareness of latencysensitive or nearrealtime AI workflows particularly for alert enrichment and operational insights in production systems.
• Understanding of AI governance auditability and versioning requirements when applying AI in regulated productiongrade DevOps environments.
• Inclination to enable and mentor teams on pragmatic safe adoption of GenAI within DevOps Platform Engineering and SRE practices.

Competencies:

• Passionate about delightful user experience building high quality responsive persona-based UIs to meet the needs of the future.
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience or a real interest in finance investment or portfolio management processes and an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.
• Experience taking emotional ownership of the design and development of a significant application system or key component. Ability to form positive relationships with partnering teams sponsors and user groups in a distributed team environment.

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.