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Senior Data Engineer (Associate)

Locations: Belgrade, Serbia

Overview of Technology roles

At BlackRock, technology has always been at the core of what we do – and today, our technologists continue to shape the future of the industry with their innovative work. We are not only curious but also collaborative and eager to embrace experimentation as a means to solve complex challenges. Here you’ll find an environment that promotes working across teams, businesses, regions and specialties – and a firm committed to supporting your growth as a technologist through curated learning opportunities, tech-specific career paths, and access to experts and leaders around the world.

Job description

About this role

This role sits within Preqin, a part of BlackRock. Preqin plays a key role in how we are revolutionizing private markets data and technology for clients globally, complementing our existing Aladdin technology platform to deliver investment solutions for the whole portfolio.

In this role you'll be joining the multi-disciplinary Orion team, where innovation meets real business impact. We're revolutionizing data management by harnessing the power of automation, machine learning, and AI to transform how we collect and process data. As part of the Orion team, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, developing and maintaining our cutting-edge workflow orchestration platform. This role offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies to streamline large-scale data handling from diverse sources, ensuring that data is always accessible, accurate, and relevant to our clients' needs.

As a Data Engineer, you will be part of a high-performing engineering pod. Your work ensures our data flows are robust, scalable, and aligned with business needs, forming the backbone of Orion’s data-driven products and insights.

This role requires an individual with excellent technical skills to evolve our back-end infrastructure. Our Data Engineers have an opportunity to significantly accelerate these changes and help shape our organization for the future.

You will utilize your expertise to ingest, model, and maintain data that enhances our internal data processing capabilities. As such, we seek an individual who demonstrates efficient and productive ways of processing data as this project increases in scale.

We seek an individual who will be instrumental in bridging the gap between technical and non-technical team members, ensuring clear and effective communication of technical concepts and data-driven strategies.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Develop workflows that seamlessly combine AI/ML with human expertise to accelerate data collection and improve decision-making processes.

  • Prioritise work based on data-driven insights and outcome-based goals in collaboration with stakeholders.

  • Design and implementation of scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest, process, and deliver high-quality data to downstream applications and analytics platforms.

  • Work closely with engineering teams across the business, ensuring the best technical solutions are adopted, and elevate development standards through knowledge sharing and best practices.

  • Collaborate across engineering, product, and data scientist teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensuring our data assets are organized and accessible.

  • Actively participate in technical discussions about new product directions, data modelling, and architectural decisions, ensuring our technology platform remains extensible.

  • Accelerate data collection as scale from millions of sources and across various databases.

  • Improve and maintain observability and alerting across our data systems, ensuring visibility into pipeline health and data quality.

  • Propose smart, pragmatic, and diverse approaches to address a variety of business problems.

  • Explore new technologies, approaches, and ideas that help to drive our business goals in unexpected ways.

About you

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated professional interested in shaping the future of financial technology with a proven track record of building software solutions at scale. They will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment where they are trusted to work with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility.

What we are looking for

  • Strong SQL and DBT experience, with a proven track record of building and maintaining analytics-ready datasets

  • Advanced Python knowledge

  • Experience with databases like Postgres and Snowflake

  • Experience of working within cloud provider services – Azure or AWS (preferred) and utilisation of infrastructure as code

  • A data-driven mindset to make development decisions based on robust analyses

  • Ability to collaborate effectively with designers, engineering and data scientist teams to build our technical solutions.

  • You have driven technical solution design, taking the balance of engineering quality, testing, scalability and security into consideration

  • A “let’s do it” and “challenge accepted” attitude when faced with less known or challenging tasks, with a willingness to learn new technologies and ways of working

  • Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all organizational levels and bridge technical perspectives

  • Proficiency in English required; additional languages and prior work experience at a global firm are desirable.

  • Experience processing structured and unstructured data

  • Ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment, developing iterative sustainable solutions with best practices (security, code quality, documentation) and long-term vision

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with AI-related projects/products

  • Knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.

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BlackRock Principles

We look to hire people that will embody our BlackRock Principles:

  • We are a fiduciary to our clients.

    This is the bedrock of our identity; it reflects our integrity and the unbiased advice we give our clients.

  • We are One BlackRock.

    We work collaboratively to create the best outcomes for our clients, our firm and the communities where we operate.

  • We are passionate about performance.

    We are relentless in innovating and finding better ways to serve our clients and improve our firm.

  • We take emotional ownership.

    We have a deep sense of responsibility to our clients and to each other.

  • We are committed to a better future.

    We are long-term thinkers, focused on helping people build a better tomorrow.

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Career path

We recognize that our technologists benefit from a tailored approach to navigating and advancing their careers in the ways they envision. Our tech career paths are specifically built to support vertical and horizontal trajectories – including Enterprise Leadership (team manager) and Tech Leadership (individual contributor) ‘tracks’ as well as various other career moves.

  • Engineer I (Analyst)
  • Engineer II/III (Associate)
  • Senior Engineer I/II (Vice President)
  • Lead Engineer
    (Vice President)
    Engineering Team Manager
    (Vice President)
  • Principal/Sr. Principal
    Engineer (Director)
    Engineering Team Director/ Sr. Engineering Team Director
  • Managing Director
    Managing Director
  • TECH
    LEADERSHIP
    ENTERPRISE
    LEADERSHIP

Benefits

We care about your overall well-being and design our benefits package to support you in various aspects of your life.

  • Financial well-being

    We offer resources designed to help you build a sound financial future for you and your family, like retirement savings plans and tuition reimbursement.

  • Pay for performance

    Our pay-for-performance philosophy includes a base salary and a discretionary annual bonus.

  • Physical well-being

    Our healthcare plans and resources help you focus on your physical health, so you and your family can feel your best.

  • Emotional well-being

    We support our people's mental health and emotional well-being by providing access to an Employee Assistance Program and a network of Mental Health Ambassadors.

  • Life management

    You'll be able to focus on moments that are important to you with benefits designed to support life in and outside of work with Flexible Time Off, parental leave and more.

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