1 month ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across the Private Markets Data Engineering team and set architectural direction for AI-enabled data platform initiatives.
- Design semantic data models, ontologies, governed data products, metadata-driven architectures, and knowledge graph capabilities.
- Build intent-driven data access capabilities across structured data, semantic models, graph databases, vector stores, and unstructured content.
- Design scalable and reliable data pipelines and analytics platforms with accountability for governance, security, automation, and long-term sustainability.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into prioritized data initiatives.
- Communicate complex technical concepts and architectural recommendations clearly while fostering collaboration between technical and business teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in senior technical roles, including hands-on Snowflake, SQL, and Python expertise.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex initiatives and providing technical direction to engineers.
- Experience designing semantic data models, business ontologies, governed data products, metadata-driven architectures, data catalogs, lineage, governance, and business glossaries.
- Hands-on experience with graph databases, vector databases, document retrieval systems, and RAG architectures.
- Experience integrating LLMs, agents, copilots, or agentic workflows with enterprise data platforms.
- Knowledge of data architecture, Azure or AWS, and directed-acyclic-graph-based workflow orchestration for data and batch processing.
- Ability to influence stakeholders, communicate effectively, and translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Experience balancing long-term technical direction with immediate delivery needs; collaboration across global or multilingual teams is beneficial.
- Experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms, declarative infrastructure, horizontal scaling, advanced observability, and financial services or private capital markets is beneficial.
Benefits
- Strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off.
- Hybrid work model requiring at least 4 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 1 day per week; some groups may require more office time.
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.