AI Platform Engineer, Vice President

About this role

Would you like to create software that shapes the financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a startup, and tackling some of the world’s most interesting challenges? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders and experts in technology and finance?

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

The Aladdin platform that we build is used by BlackRock investors and we also sell this to over 100 global financial clients. It is used to invest, protect, and manage trillions of dollars every day. We have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world, and a complete focus on high quality product development. Our technology helps millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for education, buy a home and improve their financial well-being. With our focus on sustainability and ESG in the investment process, Aladdin is increasingly used to help investors build climate-aware sustainable portfolios.

Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most advanced financial companies and being part of a FinTech software development team who build great products using next generation technology and solutions.

You are:

• Passionate about technology with personal ownership for the work you do

• Curious and eager to learn new things, and willing to challenge the status quo

• Love working within a successful team, learning from and helping others

• Willing to embrace work outside of your comfort zone, and push boundaries

• Data and quality focused, with an eye for the details that make great solutions

• You sometimes make mistakes, but always learn from them

We are:

• Passionate about building high quality scalable software to meet the needs of tomorrow

• Delivering solutions for both BlackRock investment users and external clients.

• Building a greenfield platform that will provide streamlined user workflows and high scale

• Building working, testable software every day, enabled by a scaled agile process and tools

• Demonstrating powerful AI technologies to improve user workflows

• A team who loves to innovate and continuously deliver value to our users through technology

The position is in the Portfolio Management Engineering team which sits within Aladdin. This team is embarking on a greenfield project to transform a mature PM tool set into an integrated persona-based platform with streamlined user workflows and a high degree of automation and scale. The team works closely with BlackRock portfolio managers as well as helping deliver this to external clients. They also partner closely with world class product managers, AI engineers, AI researchers, UX designers, quality assurance engineers and client support teams to deliver high quality, scalable and resilient PM capabilities.

The team is looking for an ambitious hands-on software engineer to work in a team which is delivering AI solutions to streamline and enhance user workflows within the portfolio management space. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be encouraged and empowered to bring your ideas forward to help shape our technology, process, and products. This will help you become a respected and successful player in our diverse team.

Responsibilities include:

• Help design AI solutions which streamline and enhance the next generation of the world’s best investment platform

• Contribute to an agile development team working with designers, analysts, users and leads

• Apply quality software engineering practices through all phases of development

• Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment

• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing and level two production support

• Being a great teammate, helping and respecting others, continually improving our skills, product and agile process

• Partner with client support staff to help ensure our tools are reliable and easy to use

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline required, Master's degree preferred (computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, physics, engineering or related)

• Intellectual curiosity and a passion for data and emerging technology is a must

• Ability to work together as part of a geographically distributed team with multiple collaborators

• Ownership of the design and technical quality of a significant application, system, or key component and experience in presenting to stakeholders

• Technology savvy and able to work in multiple systems and languages

• Experience in scheduling and integrating deliverables from other internal development teams

• Knowledge of natural language processing and Gen AI is preferred

• 5+ years of experience in Java, SQL and Python for programming, data analysis, and modelling

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills

Nice to have or a passion to learn on the job:

• Exposure to Front-end development, ideally with Angular, TypeScript and Micro-frontends

• Exposure to high scale distributed technology like Kafka, Mongo, Ignite, Redis

• Exposure to building microservices and APIs ideally with REST, Kafka or gRPC

As well as joining a high performing team, you will also have fun and be welcomed into the “1PM team”, with regular events and activities, as well as being part of and contributing to the wider “1BLK” team and values. You’ll be given ongoing training opportunities as well as fantastic support to develop your career and grow!

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.