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- Architect and lead the build-out of platform on Azure & migration from on-prem systems.
- Understand the existing on-prem technology landscape & implementations and recommend the best strategy & solutions to deliver on cloud.
- Design and build large scale data storage, compute and distribution systems
- Evaluate, select, and implement new tools and frameworks to expand our platform capabilities.
- Provide data engineers, quant engineers and researchers with technical advice and guidance on the best data practices on cloud
- Build relationships and partner with core architecture & engineering teams across BlackRock
- Mentor and upskill fellow team members
- Work across time zones in a distributed team
- Keep up to date with developments in the industry and use that to drive prototyping new platform capabilities
- Communicate with high impact to share project status
- A solid understanding of cloud data platforms/services such as Snowflake, Azure Synapse, Informatica IICS, Databricks etc.
- Expert knowledge of data modelling and understanding of different data stores and their benefits and limitations under particular use cases.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python. Knowledge of Java, Scala and distributed technologies such as Spark, Kubernetes is a plus.
- Desire to build deep expertise in cloud native technologies and design of applications that are deployed to cloud infrastructure.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Project and people management required
- A genuine curiosity and appetite to learn equities, fixed income, derivatives, hedge funds or investment risk
- A good understanding of hedge fund strategies and their investment process
- Build a platform that enables large scale analytics and data science workflows
- Aladdin - the investment platform used to manage >$15 Trillion of the global assets.
- Exposure to large universe of datasets and deal with some of the most interesting data & analytics challenges
Vacancy expired!