VP - Senior Data Engineer
BlackRock · Posted Oct 9
Investment management, asset management, risk analytics, and wealth services
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About the role
The Private Markets Data Engineering (PMDE) team builds the data and technology capabilities that support the evolution of private-markets investing, developing scalable data infrastructure, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities across Preqin and BlackRock. This Vice President role is a senior individual contributor and people manager responsible for building and scaling data infrastructure and analytics capabilities while partnering with business, product, and engineering stakeholders. The role will help shape next-generation AI-enabled data platforms through semantic data models, knowledge graphs, metadata-driven architectures, and intent-based data access.
What you will do
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across the Private Markets Data Engineering team, setting architectural direction, overseeing delivery, and maintaining technical coherence across AI-enabled data platform initiatives.
- Design and evolve semantic data models, ontologies, governed data products, and knowledge graph capabilities that enable consistent access, entity resolution, relationship intelligence, and multi-hop reasoning.
- Build intent-driven data access capabilities that enable assistants, agents, and applications to route requests across structured data, semantic models, graph databases, vector stores, and unstructured content.
- Design scalable, reliable data pipelines and analytics platforms, taking accountability for end-to-end technical design, data governance, security, automation, and long-term sustainability.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into actionable data initiatives and prioritize solutions based on business impact and alignment with the broader vision.
- Communicate complex technical concepts and architectural recommendations clearly to management while fostering collaboration between technical and business teams.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of experience in senior technical roles, combining hands-on expertise in Snowflake, Structured Query Language (SQL), and Python with a record of leading complex initiatives and providing technical direction to engineers.
- Experience designing semantic data models, business ontologies, governed data products, and metadata-driven architectures, supported by knowledge of data catalogs, lineage, governance, and business glossaries.
- Hands-on experience with graph database technologies and modeling patterns, along with vector databases, document retrieval systems, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
- Experience integrating large language models (LLMs), agents, copilots, or agentic workflows with enterprise data platforms, supported by knowledge of data architecture, cloud platforms such as Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS), and data workflow tooling, including directed acyclic graph-based workflow orchestration frameworks for data and batch processing.
- Ability to influence stakeholders at multiple levels, communicate effectively, and translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Ability to balance long-term technical direction with immediate delivery needs in a dynamic environment; experience collaborating across global or multilingual teams is beneficial.
- Experience with enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling and advanced observability practices, together with knowledge of financial services or private capital markets, 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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