Vice President, DBA/Data Developer

About this role

Team Overview

BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We deliver world-class service to all of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.

This position plays a key role in developing and maintaining our investment technology base and delivering new platform functionalities. You'll be responsible for maintaining, extending, and developing our data processes, from ingestion, ETL, to presentation. You will be responsible for design, implementation, and maintenance of all aspects of our data infrastructure with a focus on data integrity and security.

This position is roughly 60% database administration, 40% database development and support.

We work hard and move quickly as a well-coordinated, collaborative team whose exceptional people are focused on providing extraordinary client service. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow and contribute in a fun, industry-disruptive, fast-paced environment, SMA Solutions is the place for you.

Key Responsibilities

Work with the Systems Architect and other stakeholders to create and maintain high performance, highly available, highly scalable database – this includes but is not limited to:

• Develop and maintain high-performance, highly available, resilient database infrastructure to serve both transactional and research systems.

• Develop and maintain database back-up and disaster recovery infrastructure.

• Data infrastructure development: data flow design, data warehouses and databases, data archiving strategy

• Develop and maintain database and monitoring

• Data infrastructure maintenance: monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting, maintenance, backup

• Assisting Application Developers with the creation of queries and database functions, provide guidance on performance and optimization

• Identifying and applying proactive solutions and corrective measures to minimize downtime

• Creating and maintaining scripts to automate common operations and maintenance tasks

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 10+ years of database administration experience supporting application development teams/projects

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving skills, attention to detail and strong organizational skills

• Ability to communicate and follow up effectively and professionally with other business departments

• Self-motivated, self-pacing, proactive attitude essential to prevent foreseeable issues/problems

• Cloud-native infrastructure operational and experience, e.g. CloudNativePG, various PostgreSQL operators

• Strong understanding of, or experience with, DBA tasks supporting relational databases in an enterprise environment, including PostgreSQL 12 or higher

Highly Desirable Skills/Experience

• Advanced PostgreSQL administration experience highly desirable

• Python (or other programming languages) development experience desirable

• Related experience in the financial or investment sector is a big plus

• Experience in database security and data lifecycle

For California only the salary range for this position is $161,500 – $200,000. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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

BlackRock’s 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 children’s 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. It’s why we’re 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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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and also any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.