Description
About this role
Overview
Elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager. Thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance. We know you want to feel valued every single day and be recognized for your contribution. At BlackRock, we strive to empower our employees and effectively engage your involvement in our success.
BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth Tech organization (AWT) is at the center of cutting-edge technologies that serve financial advisors and investors. AWT consolidates BlackRock’s varying products, including Advisor Center, Aladdin Risk for Wealth and SMA Business with marketing and sales teams — with the goal of improving the user experience of its technology products and improving relationships with the financial advisors who use it.
Position Description
The Vice President will join the development team in Mumbai. The Vice President will be an integral part of the team and take responsibility for leading projects on the Product roadmap for the Business and contribute to the milestones set for the team.
This position requires solid hands-on programming, design, solutioning, creative problem solving, and troubleshooting skills, and ability to lead team and projects and deliver as per product timelines and roadmaps. This role also offers the opportunity to lead a team of proficient software developers to continue to build both new multi-tier enterprise systems and enhance existing ones.
Responsibilities
- Designing, coding, testing, and supporting reliable, robust software applications and Backend services with high-quality standards and best industry practices.
- Be a Subject matter expert for the team and provide technical solutions to the Business requirements.
- Role will balance strong engineering output with strong organizational, leadership, decision-making, and communication skills.
- Manage a small team of engineers to deliver mid-size projects.
- Review code for other engineers, ensure that team follows best practices, and processes.
- Ability to quickly learn and start development using a new language or framework as per the technology stack to be used in a project.
- Lead multi-functional feature requirements gathering, design, and implementation.
- Collaborating with Product management on the right units of work to include in each development sprint.
- Stakeholder management from partner teams, product managers and users.
- Lead and run the process for your team.
- Performing code reviews and providing timely feedback to other engineers.
- Work in a Global team environment spreading across several time zones.
Desired Skills/Compentencies
- Front End developer with experience in React Framework.
- Experience with JavaScript (ES6+) and JS frameworks like React, Recoil or Typescript.
- Experience in HTML, CSS, JQuery etc.
- Experience in designing and developing UI applications .
- Experience with a JVM based language preferably Java version 8+.
- Understanding of typical Java-based frameworks such as Spring MVC, Spring Boot etc.
- Some experience in developing in microservices architecture and/or writing Restful APIs.
- Experience with GIT for code management and CI/CD platform like Azure DevOps is a plus.
- Some experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Some experience with software containerization platforms like Docker/Kubernetes.
- Proficiency building and passionate about creating great products that solve big problems.
- Experience in leading team and managing people.
- Experience in Agile process management.
- Strong teamwork, interpersonal skills, and time management abilities.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to self-study and learn new concepts, should be self-driven.
Qualifications
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 9+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong object-oriented programming knowledge along with good understanding of algorithms, data structures and design patterns.
- Ability to work in a global team-environment.
- Financial domain background is a plus.
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.
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.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
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.
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.
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.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/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.
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