Core Risk Governance – Technology & Risk, RQA, Vice President
BlackRock · Posted Oct 5
Investment management, asset management, risk analytics, and wealth services
Mumbai, MaharashtraFull-timeHybridLead/Staff10+ years₹60.0L–₹90.0L yearly100+ applicants
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About the role
Risk & Quantitative Analysis provides independent oversight of investment and enterprise risks and helps strengthen risk management across BlackRock. The Core Risk Governance team in RQA India brings together risk governance, analytics, and exception management to deliver scalable and resilient risk oversight across BlackRock’s investment risk platform. This Vice President role will be the first senior Core Risk Management hire in Mumbai, leading a local team and delivering technology, data, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions that strengthen risk governance and oversight.
What you will do
- Serve as the senior Core Risk Management leader in Mumbai and establish a strong local presence aligned with the wider Gurgaon-based organization.
- Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team across technology, data, analytics, and risk-governance capabilities.
- Create an inclusive and connected team culture, ensuring strong collaboration, consistent standards, and effective knowledge sharing between Mumbai and Gurgaon.
- Support the phased development of the Mumbai location, including talent strategy, hiring, onboarding, capability building, workforce planning, and leadership development.
- Provide direct or matrix leadership to Mumbai-based analysts, associates, interns, and future hires, ensuring clear accountability and effective integration into their respective Core Risk Management teams.
- Help shape the Core Risk Governance technology, data, automation, and AI roadmap, translating business and risk priorities into scalable solutions.
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of technology and analytics initiatives from problem definition and solution design through testing, implementation, adoption, and production support.
- Provide strong technical leadership across Python, SQL, data engineering, cloud and enterprise data platforms, automation, analytics, application development, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Remain sufficiently hands-on to review solution architecture, challenge technical approaches, resolve complex delivery issues, and raise engineering and analytical standards.
- Partner with Risk, Investment, Data, Technology, Compliance, and Control teams to understand business requirements and deliver practical, controlled, and sustainable outcomes.
- Apply risk-management expertise to the development of reporting, analytics, controls, monitoring, and governance solutions that support investment-risk oversight and senior decision-making.
- Establish disciplined delivery standards covering software and product development lifecycles, testing, documentation, code quality, access management, issue tracking, release governance, and operational resilience.
- Build robust data-quality checks, monitoring, exception management, reconciliation, lineage, metadata, and escalation processes for risk analytics and AI-enabled applications.
- Ensure solutions are accurate, transparent, explainable, secure, user-focused, and aligned with relevant risk, data, technology, privacy, and control expectations.
- Assess emerging technologies and AI capabilities, balancing innovation and speed with reliability, safety, governance, and appropriate human oversight.
- Communicate priorities, risks, delivery progress, and key decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership forums.
- Act as a role model for ownership, collaboration, sound judgment, technical excellence, and talent development.
Skills used in this role
PythonSQLData EngineeringCloud PlatformsEnterprise Data PlatformsData PipelinesSystem IntegrationSecure DevelopmentAutomationAnalyticsApplication DevelopmentAILarge Language ModelsAgentic WorkflowsDocument IntelligenceWorkflow AutomationAI GovernanceData GovernanceTestingDeploymentMonitoringStakeholder ManagementCommunicationPeople ManagementLeadership
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline.
- More than 10 years of relevant experience across technology, data, analytics, risk management, investment management, or financial services.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams for at least 5 years, including people management, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and building leadership depth.
- Proven ability to establish or significantly scale a team, capability, or location while maintaining strong connectivity with a broader global or multi-location organization.
- Strong hands-on technical capability in Python, SQL, data engineering, cloud platforms, enterprise data solutions, automation, analytics, or application development.
- Experience designing and delivering complex technology, data, analytics, or AI-enabled solutions in a controlled production environment.
- Strong understanding of modern solution architecture, data pipelines, system integration, secure development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Meaningful experience in risk management, investment management, portfolio analytics, regulatory reporting, governance, controls, or a closely related financial-services discipline.
- Ability to connect technical design with risk context, business outcomes, user needs, and control requirements.
- Proven experience translating complex business and risk requirements into clear technical strategy, delivery priorities, and executable plans.
- Strong understanding of data governance, including ownership, data quality, lineage, reconciliation, metadata, access controls, and audit-ready documentation.
- Experience with artificial intelligence, large language models, agentic workflows, search, document intelligence, workflow automation, or AI governance is highly desirable.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders, challenge constructively, navigate ambiguity, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex risk and technology topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- A senior people leader who can create followership, develop talent, and build a strong local culture from the ground up.
- A credible technical leader who can operate at both strategic and detailed levels.
- Strong risk judgment and an appreciation for independent oversight, governance, controls, and operational resilience.
- A builder’s mindset, with the ability to establish new capabilities and convert ambiguity into a clear operating model.
- High standards for quality, transparency, accountability, and execution.
- Strong ownership and the ability to lead through influence across teams, locations, and seniority levels.
- A collaborative and inclusive approach that strengthens connectivity between Mumbai, Gurgaon, and global partners.
- A pragmatic innovator who balances speed and ambition with safety, sustainability, and control.
Benefits and support
- strong retirement plan
- tuition reimbursement
- comprehensive healthcare
- support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
About BlackRock
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
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LF
Larry Fink
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
RK
Rob Kapito
President and Director
MS
Martin Small
Chief Financial Officer and Global Head of Corporate Strategy
RG
Rob Goldstein
Chief Operating Officer
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