Platform Engineering, Director

About this role

About team
Are you interested in crafting the future of FinTech? Our Platform Engineering division is at the forefront, creating the foundation for Aladdin, an operating system crafted for investment managers. This system integrates real-time management of information, people, and technology, and is utilized by numerous financial institutions both internally and externally. Aladdin merges sophisticated risk analytics with extensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a unified platform, facilitating informed decision-making and connecting a global community of investors.

The Developer Platform team, a crucial part of Platform Engineering, focuses on advancing our Platform strategy, including our core Aladdin libraries, Aladdin configuration services, DevOps tools & services, application runtimes, and transitioning services to a containerized Kubernetes environment.

Role and impact

We are looking for an engineering team lead who loves to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. Role requires a strong expertise in C++ and DevOps is a plus. This role offers the opportunity to work with a variety of components and technologies within the Platform Services area. Ideal candidates will be detail-oriented, eager to deeply understand technology, and open to learning new skills.

Our work may involve a variety of tasks, such as updating and developing core libraries in C++, managing CI/CD pipelines in Azure is plus, integrating components in Kubernetes as required, migrating to Docker, improving core libraries with new features, design, enhancement performance tuning, integrating with modern tools and offering outstanding production support to our internal customers.

Responsibilities

• Engineering team lead with experience as an individual contributor as well as in leading teams.

• Clear vision and excel at working seamlessly with partners and stakeholders across various regions.

• Work in partnership with our product managers, users/client base and engineering teams to implement a product and technical roadmap.

• Solid understanding in managing the complete modern C++ SDLC and solid understanding of core C++ libraries from design to implementation.

• Provide strategic leadership to build a high-performance engineering team. You will grow technology leaders and connect the team to Aladdin Engineering’s mission and outcomes. You will nurture engineering culture and ultimately drive execution.

• Lead the engineering team across multiple high-visibility firm initiatives.
  

Requirement:

• 10 - 15 years of experience and a solid grasp of modern C++, particularly C++17 and CMake, C++

• Build Systems and tooling with proficiency in C++ performance tuning

• Hands on development experience on Linux Expertise in working with distributed systems.

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps is helpful.

• Hands-on experience with Python is plus. Containerization of C++ applications is plus. Strong background in developing high-performance software on Linux, including experience with platform libraries/services such as database abstraction, messaging systems, and compute grids.

• Good understanding of design patterns

• Excellent interpersonal skills, and a proven track record to collaborate effectively in both local and global teams are essential.

• Experience with Agile methodology is also required.
  

Useful skills/technologies

• MSSQL / ODBC / SYBASE ASE

• gRPC/Protobuff

• Kafka

• HashiCorp Vault

• Azure Pipelines

• Docker

• Kubernetes
  

Who you are:

• You are passionate about modern engineering practice and see it as your mission to advocate for engineering culture

• You know how to influence decision-making – at all levels and across contexts – within the organization

• You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and getting into the details when vital, and you persevere where others do not

• Excited to mentor engineers and driving towards engineering and business deliveries perfection

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 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.