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Vice President Data Content Engineer

Employer
BlackRock
Location
Gurgaon, India
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jun 30, 2022

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Job Function
Other
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
Description

About this role

Your team:
The Alpha Gen Technology & Investor Data group (AGT-ID) helps BlackRock investment teams deliver market leading performance (alpha) to their clients. We partner with investment researchers to unlock data & develop predictive signals and strategies that are traded on BlackRock hedge funds and other active portfolios. We are building a cloud scale data analytics platform to accelerate onboarding of all types of data and drive next-generation analytics of our investment teams. The team has a global footprint with presence across Singapore, Gurgaon, London and San Francisco. Our investment partners include Active Equity, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset Strategies, Sustainability Strategies, and the Risk & Trading/Liquidity team. The team is part of broader BlackRock's Aladdin Product Group (APG). Aladdin is an investment platform as a service that is used to manage more than $15 trillion by clients of Aladdin.
Your role and impact:
As the Senior Data Engineer, you will work closely with Quant and Platform engineers to develop an industry leading data platform that is used for quantitative research as well as in production system to drive daily investment processes. We are involved in the full lifecycle of the Alpha Gen and Data platform including design, architecture, development, implementation, tuning, production support and maintenance.
Your responsibilities:
You will be building a cutting-edge, high quality data analytics platform on cloud! It involves:
  • Developing libraries and services for our platform
  • Design and build large scale data storage, compute and distribution systems
  • Providing researchers and junior engineers with technical advice and guidance on our systems
  • Support of production data pipelines
  • Work across timezones in a distributed team
  • Exploration, identification and prototype new data platform capabilities.
  • Partnering with other engineering teams at BlackRock to integrate with Aladdin
You have:
We value post-graduate degree holders, but we also like individuals with equivalent professional experience. So, if you have a good mix of the skills below we would love to hear from you!
  • A solid understanding of cloud data platforms/services such as Snowflake, Azure Synapse, Informatica IICS, Databricks etc..
  • High level of proficiency in Python and SQL. Knowledge of Java, Scala and distributed technologies such as Spark and Kubernetes is a plus.
  • Desire to build deep expertise in cloud native technologies and design of applications that are deployed to cloud infrastructure.
  • An engineering mind set that focuses on building high quality maintainable software. This includes practices such as agile, test automation, CI/CD etc.
  • Ability to work in a collaborative setting and effectively communicate technical concepts to broad audience.
  • Project and people management experience a plus.

A genuine curiosity and appetite to learn: equities, fixed income, derivatives, hedge funds or investment risk

What will you will learn on the job?
  • Working with some of the most sophisticated investors in the industry to develop a deep understanding of hedge fund strategies and their investment process
  • Build a platform that enables large scale analytics and data science workflows
  • Aladdin - the investment platform used to manage >$15 Trillion of the global assets.
  • Exposure to large universe of datasets and deal with some of the most interesting data & analytics challenges


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.

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 careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

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.

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