Data Engineer, Aladdin Data, Associate
BlackRock · Posted Nov 5
Investment management, asset management, risk analytics, and wealth services
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About the role
The Alternative Data Pipeline Engineering team supports Aladdin, BlackRock's investment management and technology platform, by building and operating reliable data products that acquire, transform, model, and distribute diverse datasets for investment, analytics, and platform use cases. The team works with structured and semi-structured data using Python, SQL, Snowflake, and modern data engineering technologies across Azure or AWS. This role builds and supports enterprise data pipelines and data platforms, from requirements and technical design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
What you will do
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade data pipelines and reusable ingestion and transformation components for structured and semi-structured data.
- Develop scalable data models and extract, load, and transform (ELT) transformations, using advanced SQL to support complex workloads while optimizing performance, scalability, and cost.
- Develop and operate reliable directed acyclic graph-based workflow orchestration frameworks for data and batch processing while implementing automated data-quality checks, reconciliation, lineage, alerting, monitoring, and failure handling.
- Build modular, maintainable, well-tested solutions and improve engineering productivity through reusable frameworks, automation, and responsibly governed artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted development.
- Partner with product teams, data specialists, and consumers to translate requirements into dependable solutions, taking end-to-end ownership and communicating progress, risks, and issues.
- Diagnose production issues and improve reliability, observability, and resilience while contributing to modernization and migration of existing data pipelines to BlackRock's enterprise data platform.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience, with at least 4 years of hands-on experience building and supporting enterprise data pipelines, platforms, or data-intensive applications.
- Strong Python development skills with experience in modular design, error handling, logging, automated testing, Git-based development, peer review, and continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
- Advanced SQL and strong hands-on Snowflake experience, including complex transformations, schema design, semi-structured data, ELT patterns, query troubleshooting, and performance and cost optimization.
- Practical experience developing and troubleshooting data workflows, combined with a strong understanding of data warehousing and modeling concepts, including dimensional and historical data design.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to diagnose complex data and production issues and take ownership in an agile, globally distributed environment.
- Experience with large-scale distributed data analytics engines and exposure to modern transformation, application programming interface (API), data-format, distributed event streaming and messaging, and Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technologies.
- Experience with reusable data-engineering capabilities, governance and lineage, cloud or legacy modernization, financial or alternative data, and secure AI-assisted software development is beneficial.
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
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
President and Director
Chief Financial Officer and Global Head of Corporate Strategy
Chief Operating Officer
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