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ID #15414660
State California
City Sanfrancisco
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source BlackRock
Showed 2021-06-13
Date 2021-06-12
Deadline 2021-08-11
Category Architect/engineer/CAD
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Cloud Data Architect-Director

California, Sanfrancisco, 94105 Sanfrancisco USA

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Description

About this role

Your Team:

The Alpha Gen Technology & Investor Data group (AGT-ID) helps BlackRock investment teams deliver market leading performance (alpha) to their clients. We partner with investment researchers to unlock data & develop predictive signals and strategies that are traded on BlackRock hedge funds and other active portfolios. We are building a cloud scale data analytics platform to accelerate onboarding of all types of data and drive next-generation analytics of our investment teams. The team has a global footprint with presence across Sydney, Singapore, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Budapest, London and San Francisco. Our investment partners include Active Equity, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset Strategies, Sustainability Strategies, and the Risk & Trading/Liquidity team. The team is part of broader BlackRock's Aladdin Product Group (APG). Aladdin is an investment platform as a service that is used to manage more than $15 trillion by clients of Aladdin.

Your role and impact:

As the Cloud Data Architect, you will lead the architecture and build-out of our data analytics platform components using cloud technologies, working closely with Quant and Data engineers to develop an industry leading platform that is used for quantitative research as well as in production system to drive daily investment processes. We are involved in the full lifecycle of the Alpha Gen and Data platform including design, architecture, development, implementation, tuning, production support and maintenance

Your responsibilities:

You will be building a cutting-edge, high quality data analytics platform on cloud! It involves:
  • 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

You have:
  • 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

What will you learn on the job?
  • 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

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.

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 careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person's appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and also any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

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