Base Salary
$215k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve target-state architecture for Aladdin Data platforms, shared services, APIs, SDKs, metadata, configuration, and data models.
- Shape governed platform capabilities for AI and agent-based applications across structured and unstructured data.
- Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams through technical discovery, prototyping, implementation, rollout, and adoption.
- Drive measurable improvements in availability, throughput, latency, scalability, onboarding speed, and engineering productivity.
- Define reference architectures, engineering patterns, and practical technical guardrails for code quality, testing, security, observability, resilience, and release management.
- Establish reusable libraries, templates, infrastructure, APIs, automation, tooling, documentation, and self-service patterns.
- Mentor engineers and architects and lead cross-platform initiatives improving design quality, delivery automation, observability, resilience, and performance.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in data platform architecture, data engineering, distributed systems, or related disciplines, including enterprise-scale platform design.
- Experience designing governed platforms for AI and unstructured-data workloads involving object storage, document management, metadata, retrieval, vector or graph technologies, security, and operational reliability.
- Experience designing high-performance data services and APIs with demanding scale, availability, throughput, and latency requirements.
- Technical fluency in data modeling and transformation, SQL, Python or Java, reusable packages, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery practices.
- Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures, distributed messaging platforms, stateful stream and batch processing engines, schema management, delivery semantics, event time, checkpointing, and fault tolerance.
- Architecture leadership across workflow orchestration, Data Operations, release management, observability, cloud infrastructure, and source-control and delivery platforms.
- Ability to influence engineering, product, architecture, and executive stakeholders and communicate complex concepts clearly, preferably in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
Benefits
- Healthcare, leave benefits, retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off.
- Hybrid work model requiring at least four days per week in the office and allowing one day per week from home; some groups may require more in-office time.
- Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
About BlackRock
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