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Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Job Title: Vice President, Senior Engineer

Location: 400 Howard St San Francisco, CA 94105

Job Duties: Engineer core services for the next generation Aladdin Container Platform to host cloud native applications at scale.

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, resilient, and high-performance data products and pipelines supporting enterprise-wide business, analytics, and investment capabilities.
• Drive technical strategy for batch and real-time data ingestion, transformation, and distribution platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, governance, security, and data-quality standards.

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision for the ETF engineering platform, ensuring alignment with Aladdin-wide architecture standards and BlackRock’s technology strategy.
• Own domain architecture decisions across ESP and adjacent systems — including microservices decomposition, event-driven architectures (Kafka), cloud-native infrastructure, and API design.

• Define and evolve the target-state architecture for Aladdin Data platforms, shared services, application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kits (SDKs), metadata, configuration, and data models, while guiding investments and technology adoption that improve scalability, reliability, performance, security, interoperability, and developer experience.

• Leveraged and unlevered commingled funds
• Rated note structures (vertical and horizontal)

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• At least 5+ years of experience as an engineer with large scale systems, preferably in an investment management or trading environment

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, STEM or similar technical field, OR equivalent practical experience
• 2-5 years of professional software development experience

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance data pipelines supporting enterprise data products.
• Build and optimize batch and real-time data ingestion, transformation, and publishing processes across diverse data sources.

• Develop deep end-to-end expertise in portfolio management, trading, client onboarding, account servicing, and investment operations workflows across SMA Solutions.
• Gather, analyze, and prioritize requirements, balancing business value, risk, resources, and delivery constraints.

• You will be working on BlackRock's investment operating system called Aladdin. Aladdin is used both internally within BlackRock and externally by many financial institutions. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making and create a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.

• Platform strategy and architecture
• Cross-functional program leadership

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal database tooling, services, and automation used for provisioning, access management, schema changes, and operational validation.
• Develop and enhance scripts, services, and utilities using Python, Perl, Java, or similar languages under the guidance of senior engineers.

• Own the software supply chain security strategy end to end — source integrity, dependency and artifact provenance, software bills of materials, signing, and verifiable build attestation across the firm’s technology estate
• Secure the build and release path itself, hardening build systems, artifact repositories, and d...

• Design, build, and operate reliable platform services through automation, infrastructure-as-code, continuous delivery practices, Python-based workflow automation, and secure secrets-management lifecycle capabilities.
• Develop and operate AI-assisted platform capabilities, including retrieval-augmented knowledge ...

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Develops and deploys machine learning models and AI solutions that solve business problems and enhance products. Conducts data exploration, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment.

• Provide independent oversight, review, and challenge of first line data owners and data stewards, ensuring they identify, assess, and manage data risk in line with the firm’s data risk management policies and standards.
• Hold the first line accountable for compliance with data risk requirements across the data lif...

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of data product managers and product owners aligned to core ACB data domains
• Develop talent through ongoing feedback, stretch assignments, and structured career growth — building bench strength for senior product roles

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Team Overview

BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We deliver world-class service to all of our clients, from wealth advisors to ...

• Work directly with designated business groups to identify process inefficiencies and automation opportunities
• Own detailed analysis of business process workflows, helping with data cleanup and compiling data for ad-hoc requests

• Ownership of the entire lifecycle of mission-critical data delivery applications, including business analysis, design and architecture, development, and deployment
• Collaborate with our internal software development team as well as application vendors to develop solutions and integrate vendor products to deliver rich, enterprise-wide software solutions