Full Stack Engineer, Aladdin Data, Associate

About this role

Title: Full Stack Engineer

When BlackRock started in 1988, its founders envisioned a company that combined the best of financial services with cutting edge technology. They imagined a business that would provide financial services to clients as well as technology services to other financial firms. The result of their vision is Aladdin, our industry leading, end-to-end investment management platform. With assets valued over USD $10 trillion managed on Aladdin, our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial wellbeing.

About Enterprise Data Platform (EDP)

Data is at the heart of Aladdin and increasingly the ability to consume, store, analyse and gain insight from data has become a key component of our competitive advantage. The EDP team is responsible for the data ecosystem within BlackRock with a mission to build a centrally managed unified platform that takes care off end-to-end firm wide data needs. Our goal is to build and maintain a leading-edge data platform that provides highly available, consistent data of the highest quality for all users of the platform, notably investors, operations teams, and data scientists. We focus on evolving our platform to deliver exponential scale to the firm, powering the future growth of Aladdin data.

About this role

As a full stack engineer at BlackRock, you will get firsthand experience working at one of the most recognized financial companies in the world. You will be responsible for working closely with the Aladdin Data stakeholders, making technological designs and implement those to scale the existing Data Observability platform for next generation Enterprise Data platform (EDP), which is designed to automate data acquisition, ingestion, transformation, and distribution processes to handle enterprise-wide data processing capabilities. The mission of EDP Operator Workbench is to provide a single pane of glass to Data Operations team to be able to effectively monitor, track any data pipeline issues and be able to take remedial actions.

It is important to have a good track-record of contributing to a high-quality digital solution. This role is expected to implement the technology solution of highly complex and/or sensitive components which have direct impact to firm business operations. We are looking for the candidates, who are self-driven, passionate, like to innovate and resolve complex data problems.

Candidates with hands-on experience on developing Cloud Native web applications using Full Stack Technologies are best suited for the role. The person will be building a multi-tenant Data Observability & Monitoring Platform which will provide a single pane of glass across the data estates for the Data Operations Team to be able to actively monitor and resolve any issues.

The role would be responsible for building and providing adequate technical solutions and capabilities to deliver a robust and scalable EDP Operator Workbench platform. There is already a working application and a small team in place; the existing solution leverages React.js as front end, Node.js as back end, Postgres as DB, Rest APIs and snowflake capabilities to provide a versatile Observability tool.

Responsibilities:

Associate data engineer is expected to be engaged from inception of new initiatives, understand requirements, design architecture, develop, deploy, and maintain the application. The goal is to provide a robust and scalable application that can centrally provide observability to data pipelines across data domains and data formats.

• Hands-on contribute to the development task, build new features and maintain EDP Operator workbench application. The person needs to collaborate with data pipelines and data distribution team including participation in tactical projects and strategic programs.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to generate ideas for designing and building data engineering solutions using standard frameworks. Provide ideas for process enhancements that will result in cycle time reductions.
• Explore new tools and technologies to enhance the capabilities for the frameworks.
• Work closely with team leads and, product teams throughout the SDLC cycle.
• Work with development team to conduct end-to-end tests to ensure production operations run successfully after every release cycle.
• Provide L2 or L3 support for technical and/or operational issues.
• Provide technical expertise to the development teams and establish strong bonds with technologists outside the team.
• Ability to coordinate and collaborate with engineers within and outside the team.
• Take developmental ownership of components and/or initiatives requiring coordination and cooperation with others.
• Identify communication needs and ensure smooth flow of information within the organization.
• Participate in technology initiatives outside the direct team purview.

Required Experience:

• At least 4+ years’ experience as a full stack engineer (React.js, Node.js) having developed web applications.
• Experience with Postgres, Snowflake data stores.  
• Experience in SQL, PL/SQL programming
• Experience with Agile development concepts and related tools
• Experience conducting root cause analysis and solve issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a can-do attitude under challenging circumstances
• BTech or equivalent degree

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with object-oriented design patterns, Core Java programming, Spring Boot and Graph API
• Architecture design and task workflow Orchestrations
• Experience in Azure Cloud Native services
• Exposure to real time streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science is preferred.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and other protected characteristics at law.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.