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AI-Enabled Product Engineer – Aladdin, Investments & Trading Engineering, Vice President

Locations: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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

Aladdin Investments and Trading Engineering is responsible for building and evolving technology that supports portfolio management, trading, analytics, and compliance workflows across global markets. Within Analytics & Compliance Engineering, the team develops highly scalable technology solutions that help investment professionals and compliance teams manage investment guidelines, regulatory obligations, analytics-driven workflows, and operational controls.


The Investment and Trading Compliance Engineering team delivers technology that supports compliance throughout the asset management lifecycle. These platforms help organizations monitor and manage adherence to client mandates, internal policies, and regulatory requirements through high-throughput rule-processing capabilities operating at enterprise scale. The team is modernizing these platforms through workflow-driven user experiences, resilient service architectures, and responsible AI capabilities that enhance productivity, decision-making, and operational efficiency.


Your Role and Impact

As an AI-Enabled Product Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of investment technology, compliance workflows, software engineering, and applied artificial intelligence. You will help shape the next generation of platform capabilities that support investment professionals, compliance specialists, and business stakeholders operating in complex global markets.

This role combines hands-on software engineering with technical leadership responsibilities. You will contribute directly to product delivery while driving adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices that accelerate development, improve quality, and increase operational effectiveness. Your work will influence both product outcomes and broader engineering practices across the organization.


Your Responsibilities

In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:

  • Lead the design, development, delivery, and operational support of scalable full-stack product capabilities across Analytics & Compliance Engineering, providing hands-on technical leadership throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to define requirements, shape architecture, evaluate trade-offs, and align teams on technical direction and delivery plans.
  • Apply AI-enabled engineering practices and embed responsible AI capabilities into products and services to improve productivity, automation, knowledge discovery, and decision-making.
  • Build scalable, resilient, secure, and observable systems that balance performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
  • Champion engineering excellence through automated testing, software quality practices, development operations, production readiness, and site reliability engineering principles.
  • Mentor engineers, elevate technical standards, and contribute to a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
  • Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve user experiences, operational controls, and business outcomes across investment and compliance workflows.

Your Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering enterprise-scale applications and platforms in production environments.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI-enabled engineering practices, intelligent development tools, and responsible AI techniques to accelerate software delivery and product innovation.
  • Strong full-stack engineering expertise with modern application architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and large-scale platform design.
  • Experience building and operating cloud-native platforms using modern infrastructure, deployment, observability, and platform engineering practices, including enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling.
  • Experience in financial services, investment technology, compliance technology, or regulatory technology environments, with an understanding of controls-oriented workflows.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

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.


Guidance on AI use for candidates


At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.


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.


To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.


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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