Associate, Application Engineer, Engineer III

About this role

Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Job Title: Associate, Application Engineer, Engineer III

Location: 50 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001

Job Duties: Support all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, system development, testing, implementation and production support for services and applications to scale system operations. Take ownership for architecting and developing distributed, event-driven systems for comprehensive accounting, reconciliation, trade and order management solutions. Architect and deploy large-scale applications and execute the end-to-end technical integration of premium offerings (data clouds, APIs, computing services, and datasets) into Aladdin, ensuring seamless integration with client enterprise systems. Build different components of Aladdin’s Credit Management system that generates business events, orders and transactions across Aladdin Studio, ensuring architecting a scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available system. Develop a comprehensive data catalog and API metadata repository system to enhance data discovery, storage, querying, caching and API metrics visualization. Design and implement robust technical frameworks for the ingestion, processing, and analysis of high velocity market data streams and complex event processing. Design, evaluate, build and develop innovative technical solutions to enhance, scale and introduce new capabilities on the Aladdin platform. Empower a team of engineers by mentoring individuals, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging technical expertise to constantly raise the quality of design decisions and implementation by holding the team to a high standard.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, or related field and 48 months of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Requires 48 months of experience in each of the following skills: 1. Architect, implement, and deploy complex, low-latency large-scale applications using domain-driven design and service-oriented architecture for products/platforms that provide API libraries, data catalogs, and data science capabilities. 2. Develop distributed event-driven systems for accounting, reconciliation, analytics, trade and order management. 3. Design and utilize scalable infrastructure and orchestration systems on Azure Cloud, TKGI using Kubernetes and Docker for containerization, and cloud storage solutions such as S3. 4. Utilize Snowflake and its product capabilities such as data warehouses, materialized views, and data lakes. 5. Enhance efficiency through optimized data partitioning, sharding, and querying strategies for NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, InfluxDB) and relational databases (SAP ASE, PostgreSQL). 6. Implement high-performance APIs and microservices with Java and Golang, utilizing concurrency (multi-threading), gRPC, and SSE. 7. Program with frontend technologies such as React, Redux, Axios, and TypeScript, including designing micro-frontend integrations using frameworks like Module Federation. 8. Utilize secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault to secure sensitive information. 9. Leverage open-source event/publish-subscribe frameworks such as Apache Kafka and NATS and data workflow automation tools such as Argo and Prefect. 10. Implement secure cloud-native networking practices with service meshes (Consul and Envoy) and gateway technologies (NGINX and Ingress) for load balancing, traffic management, and API security. 11. Employ the use of monitoring tools and open telemetry frameworks including Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics and Prometheus. 12. Leverage Agile software development methodologies and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or Azure DevOps along with AquaSec.

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For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$153,900.00 - USD$162,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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 and Affirmative Action Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.