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Base Salary
$162k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the data platform engineering strategy for scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient event-driven systems.
- Lead the design and development of enterprise-grade platforms using streaming and event-driven architectures.
- Establish data governance, quality, lineage, and observability practices across the platform.
- Partner with engineering, product, and platform organizations to align capabilities with business and investment use cases.
- Promote engineering excellence through automation and standardized development practices.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and direction to engineering teams.
- Influence enterprise architecture and platform strategy decisions and drive adoption of reusable, standardized solutions.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in platform engineering, distributed systems, and modern event-driven solutions such as Kafka.
- Strong programming expertise in Python, Java, or Scala.
- Proven track record of building and scaling production-grade platforms.
- Experience with streaming and event-driven architecture.
- Prior experience in financial services or asset management is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility and healthcare, leave, and retirement benefits.
- Additional benefits include tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off.
- Hybrid work model requiring at least four days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home one day per week; some groups may require more office time.
- New York, NY position.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About BlackRock
BlackRock is a public, New York–based global asset manager and technology provider founded in 1988. It offers investment products—including the iShares ETF franchise—and portfolio and risk management software via the Aladdin platform to institutions, financial advisors, and individual investors, earning primarily management and technology fees. Its shares trade on the NYSE, and the firm serves clients in major markets worldwide.