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ID #15402992
State New York
City New york city
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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Lead Data Engineer, Director - AI Labs

New York, New york city, 10055 New york city USA

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About this role

The AI Labs team works collaboratively; and is a multi-disciplinary team with the following skills and capabilities: optimization, machine learning, statistical modeling, exploratory data analysis, natural language processing, data visualization, network/graph modeling, ETL, data pipelines, data architecture, communication, project / product management and strategy. We work with data from a wide variety of sources including text, news feeds, financial reports, time series transactions, user behavior logs, imagery, and real-time data.

AI Labs has offices in New York, Palo Alto, and Edinburgh. The team has several Stanford professors as senior advisors with world-class expertise in machine learning, statistics, optimization and stochastic control. These advisors include Emanuel Candes, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Mykel Kochenderfer who dedicate time in our Palo Alto office and provide advice and mentorship for all members of the distributed team.

As a Lead Data Engineer you will:

  • Improve BlackRock's product and services suite by creating, expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture.
  • Lead architecture on a multi-discipline, multi-region team of data scientists, engineers, and investment professionals on a corporate-wide set of client, investor, and operational problems.
  • Lead and/or mentor other data engineers
  • You will create and operationalize data pipelines to enable squads to deliver high quality data-driven product.
  • You will be accountable for managing high-quality datasets exposed for internal and external consumption by downstream users and applications. Lead in the creation and maintenance of optimized data pipeline architectures on large and complex data sets.
  • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet BlackRock business requirements.
  • Act as lead to Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements and relay to relevant technology organization.
  • Work with stakeholders to assist in the data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
  • Automate manual ingest processes and optimize data delivery subject to service level agreements; work with infrastructure on re-design for greater scalability.
  • Keep data separated and segregated according to relevant data policies.
  • Work with data scientists to develop data ready tools to support their job.
  • Assist in the development of business recommendations with effective presentation of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders using visual analytic displays of quantitative information. Communicate findings with stakeholders as necessary.

What you will need:
  • 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Software Engineering
  • Experience leading or managing other data engineers
  • Experience with building and optimizing 'big data' pipelines, architectures, and data sets. Familiarity with data pipeline and workflow management tools Luigi, Airflow
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases.
  • Experience with Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka
  • Experience with Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platforms
  • Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming
  • Experience with OO or object scripting language such as Python, Scala, and Java

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.

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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