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Aladdin Data Risk, Controls & Governance, Director

BlackRock · Posted Oct 26

Investment management, asset management, risk analytics, and wealth services

Gurgaon, HaryanaFull-timeHybridDirector/Executive12+ years₹60.0L–₹1.0Cr yearly48 applicants
Investment ManagementAsset ManagementFinancial ServicesFintechPublic Company
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About the role

The Aladdin Data Risk team at BlackRock owns risk management, data controls, and analytics stewardship across Aladdin, the firm's enterprise investment and risk analytics platform spanning investment data, portfolio modeling, and client reporting. The Director operates as a senior enterprise leader, setting strategy and governance for data risk frameworks, incident management, regulatory and audit readiness, and data quality across the platform's data and analytics ecosystem. The role also involves analytics stewardship for quantitative financial models and acting as a trusted advisor to clients, auditors, regulators, and executive stakeholders.

What you will do

  • Set the strategic direction for Aladdin Data risk management frameworks and controls, ensuring they are scalable, audit-defensible, commercially aligned, and resilient across evolving platforms, products, and regulatory expectations.
  • Lead complex, high-priority incident management with executive judgment, coordinating across Engineering, Product, Client Businesses, Compliance, and senior leadership to drive timely remediation, transparent communication, and durable prevention.
  • Proactively strengthen regulatory and policy compliance by partnering with Audit, Compliance, Legal, and business leaders to translate expectations into clear controls, measurable outcomes, and sustainable operating discipline.
  • Own enterprise stewardship of critical analytics and risk data, ensuring data is governed, traceable, complete, accurate, and fit for senior leadership, client, audit, and regulatory consumption.
  • Define and institutionalize data quality standards, executive metrics, validation frameworks, and escalation mechanisms that create transparency, accountability, and measurable improvement across the data lifecycle.
  • Partner with Data Engineering, Product, and Governance teams to embed automated validation, control checks, lineage, and monitoring into data pipelines and operating workflows.
  • Own and evolve analytics capabilities supported by the Aladdin Data platform, ensuring solutions are scalable, controlled, client-relevant, and aligned to enterprise growth priorities.
  • Influence modeling, product, and engineering teams to ensure new risk models and analytics meet business needs, control expectations, and enterprise data quality standards before adoption.
  • Lead large-scale testing, adoption readiness, and insight generation for quantitative financial models and analytics, translating complex findings into clear decisions for senior stakeholders.
  • Define and drive a multi-year roadmap for process engineering, control maturity, automation, and risk transformation aligned to enterprise objectives and Aladdin Data strategic priorities.
  • Operate as a senior integrator across Client Businesses, Product, Engineering, Compliance, Audit, and enterprise governance teams to deliver new analytics and business solutions, including climate, private credit, AI-enabled data, and other emerging capabilities.
  • Build, coach, and elevate talent by setting a high bar for judgment, ownership, communication, and execution, while fostering an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing team culture.
  • Serve as a senior trusted advisor to clients and executive stakeholders, framing complex risk and data issues clearly, managing expectations, and driving outcomes that reinforce confidence in Aladdin Data capabilities.
  • Lead client-facing risk controls capabilities, including direct engagement on incidents, control enhancements, remediation strategies, and forward-looking improvements to strengthen transparency and trust.

Skills used in this role

AladdinGDPRAIData GovernanceData QualityRisk AnalyticsPortfolio ModelingAutomationMonitoring

What the employer is looking for

  • Extensive experience leading data risk, controls, and governance functions within Aladdin or comparable enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms
  • Proven ability to own end-to-end enterprise risk and control frameworks across the data lifecycle, with clear accountability for design, adoption, monitoring, remediation, and executive reporting.
  • Deep understanding of investment data, risk analytics, portfolio modeling environments, and platform-scale data operations, with the ability to enforce data integrity, completeness, reliability, and usability across critical analytics outputs.
  • Demonstrated experience leading Internal Audit, regulatory, and senior management engagements, including the ability to produce defensible evidence, clear narratives, and sustainable remediation plans.
  • Demonstrated expertise in data privacy, protection, and responsible data use frameworks, including GDPR and enterprise policy obligations.
  • Track record designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise policy frameworks and operating models that translate strategic intent into clear standards, controls, ownership, and adoption.
  • Proven ability to define and execute strategic initiatives that materially strengthen enterprise risk posture, including:
  • Scaling control frameworks for new platforms, AI-driven data capabilities, acquisitions, emerging asset classes, and evolving regulatory expectations.
  • Driving enterprise-wide data governance adoption, ownership clarity, and operating model maturity across complex, global stakeholder groups.
  • Advancing monitoring, automation, issue detection, and management reporting capabilities that enable proactive risk identification and measurable control improvement.
  • Partnering cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Client Business, Compliance, Audit, and senior leadership to embed risk ownership into the operating fabric of the platform.
  • Expertise designing and enforcing data quality controls, validation frameworks, lineage, metrics, and issue management processes that are scalable, measurable, and audit-ready.
  • Strong leadership experience managing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams while driving change, accountability, and execution discipline in complex, matrixed environments.
  • Exceptional ability to engage executive stakeholders, clients, and control partners as a credible, strategic advisor on data risk, governance, platform resilience, and regulatory readiness.

Benefits and support

  • Strong retirement plan
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Comprehensive healthcare
  • Support for working parents
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO)
  • Hybrid work model with at least 4 days in office and 1 day remote per week

About BlackRock

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BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment management corporation and the world's largest asset manager. The firm provides institutional and individual clients with a broad range of investment, advisory, and risk management products, including its proprietary Aladdin financial technology platform. Headquartered in New York City, BlackRock manages trillions in assets across global equity, fixed income, alternative investments, and iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Industry
Investment Management
Company size
24900 employees
Founded
1988-03-09
Location
New York, New York, USA
Funding stage
Public Company

Leadership

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Larry Fink

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

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Rob Kapito

President and Director

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Martin Small

Chief Financial Officer and Global Head of Corporate Strategy

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Rob Goldstein

Chief Operating Officer

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