Vice President, Data Quality Platform

About this role

About this role

Our Data Quality Platform is a critical component of the Aladdin Data ecosystem, ensuring that data powering investment analytics and business workflows is accurate, consistent, and trustworthy at scale. The platform provides a unified framework for data profiling, validation, reconciliation, observability, and governance across high-volume financial datasets.

What You will do

As a Vice President, Aladdin Data Quality Platform, you will play a key role in building and evolving this platform—developing scalable services and frameworks that proactively measure, enforce, and monitor data quality across the enterprise. You will help create a seamless and extensible system that integrates with upstream and downstream data platforms, enabling continuous data reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and scale data quality services and APIs that provide rule execution, scoring, and quality SLAs for datasets and domains

• Define and implement data quality frameworks: rules engine patterns, validation layers, quality gates, and exception workflows

• Establish data profiling and anomaly detection capabilities (completeness, distribution drift, outliers, schema drift)

• Implement reconciliation controls (source-to-target, balancing, row counts, sums/hashes, financial totals checks)

• Design metadata-driven quality rules: configurable rules, versioning, ownership, and auditable execution history

• Engineer quality controls across ingestion/processing:

  • schema enforcement, type checks, nullability constraints

  • referential integrity checks

• Support data lineage and traceability and data observability:

• Optimize high-volume query workloads in Snowflake/MSSQL while maintaining consistent quality checks at scale

• Partner with platform, governance, and product teams to drive long-term strategy for trusted data quality services

• Mentor engineers and influence architectural direction for enterprise-grade data quality platforms

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend/data platform engineering with strong hands-on development

• Deep expertise in Python and modern API frameworks such as FastAPI

• Strong experience building scalable services for data platforms (APIs, pipelines, controls)

• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake and/or MSSQL, including performance tuning

• Proven experience implementing data quality controls across batch and/or streaming pipelines

• Experience with data quality operating models:

  • quality SLAs/SLOs (freshness, accuracy, completeness)

  • issue triage workflows, exception handling, and remediation

• Strong knowledge of data modelling (relational, dimensional, analytical) and model validation techniques

• Experience designing reconciliation frameworks and audit-grade controls (esp. for financial data)

• Familiarity with distributed systems, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data quality tools/frameworks (any of):

  • Great Expectations, Soda, dbt tests, Bigeye(or equivalent in-house frameworks)

• Exposure to event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar) for near-real-time quality detection

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• Understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), especially around data domains and ownership boundaries

Technical Skills

• Python, FastAPI

• Snowflake, MSSQL

• Data Quality Framework Design (rules, scoring, gates)

• Data Profiling, Validation, Reconciliation

• Metadata-driven systems (rule catalogs, versioning, audit)

• Data Observability (freshness, volume, schema drift, SLAs)

• Data Lineage & Governance integrations

• Data Pipelines (ETL/ELT; batch/streaming)

• High-Volume Query Optimization

• Docker / Kubernetes, CI/CD

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.