Data Engineer, Aladdin Data, Associate
BlackRock · Posted Nov 4
Investment management, asset management, risk analytics, and wealth services
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About the role
The Aladdin Data team at BlackRock builds and maintains the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) that supports the firm's investment management platform. The team works with modern data engineering tools including Airflow, Python, Snowflake, and dbt to enable data acquisition, ingestion, processing, orchestration, and data quality frameworks. This Associate Data Platform Engineer role involves designing, developing, and supporting scalable data solutions, collaborating with product managers and stakeholders throughout the SDLC, and providing L2/L3 support.
What you will do
- Refining requirements
- Designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) enabling core framework components
- Automating data pipelines
- Supporting teams using the framework
- Adhering to data platform standards
- Enhancing performance and scalability
- Actively participate in chapter ceremony meetings and contribute to project planning and estimation
- Coordinate work with product managers, data owners, platform teams, and other stakeholders throughout the SDLC cycle
- Use Airflow, Python, Snowflake, dbt, and related technologies to enhance and maintain EDP acquisition, ingestion, processing, orchestration and DQ frameworks
- Adopt new tools and technologies to enhance framework capabilities
- Build and conduct end-to-end tests to ensure production operations run successfully after every release cycle
- Document and present accomplishments and challenges to internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrate deep understanding of modern data engineering tools and best practices
- Design and build solutions which are performant, consistent, and scalable
- Contribute to design decisions for complex systems
- Provide L2 / L3 support for technical and/or operational issues
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- At least 5+ years' experience as a data engineer
- Expertise with SQL, stored procedures, UDFs
- Advanced level Python programming
- Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud native databases
- Experience with orchestration tools, especially Airflow
- Experience with declarative transformation tools like dbt
- Experience in Azure services, especially ADLS (or equivalent)
- Exposure to real time streaming platforms and message brokers (e.g., Snowpipe Streaming, Kafka)
- Experience with Agile development concepts and related tools (ADO, Aha)
- Experience conducting root cause analysis and solve issues
- Experience with performance tuning
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to operate in a matrixed organization and fast-paced environment
- Strong interpersonal skills with a can-do attitude under challenging circumstances
- Bachelor's degree in computer science is strongly preferred
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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