Associate Software Engineer, Aladdin Sustainability (New York, NY) job vacancy

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About this role

Elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager! Thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance! We know you want to feel valued every single day and be recognized for your contribution. At BlackRock, we strive to empower our employees and effectively engage your involvement in our success.

BlackRock is one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock's mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions - from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world's capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

About the team:

Come join a diverse and collaborative group of researchers and developers in the Research and Modeling team within the Aladdin Sustainability Lab (ASL). As a member of the ASL you will be working with clients and partners to develop the capabilities and products needed to quantify the impact of climate risk and other sustainability factors on financial assets. The Lab brings together research and modelling, analytics, product management, design and engineering teams involved in developing Aladdin Climate.

The Sustainability Research team is focused on building innovative models to assess the financial impacts of climate change, climate policy and energy policy on large number of asset classes - from corporate equity and fixed income, to mortgages, municipal bonds, sovereign debt, and alternative investments. As climate risks and sustainable investing become an ever-increasing focus for investors, we are developing the models and analytics to help drive a deeper understanding of risks and outcomes.

About the role:

ASL is looking for a Software Engineer to work on BlackRock's sustainability initiatives. The focus will be on delivering sustainability analytics to production, including but not limited to data engineering, quality assurance, and DevOps. You will join a fast-growing group of developers, financial modelers, and climate experts to deliver our climate and sustainability models as a product to our clients. You will have broad exposure to BlackRock's financial modeling process involving diverse types of data and asset classes. You will have opportunities to work with a wide range of internal and external business stakeholders. Through this role, you will help deliver a product that has the potential to reshape industry's response to sustainability issues.

Key responsibilities include:

Work with subject matter experts and researchers, build robust research and production pipeline for data and modeling process
Ensure product quality
Process automation
Communicate across multiple partner teams on project planning and delivery
Quantitative model implementation and deployment

Skills & Qualifications:

Degree in computer science, statistics, machine learning, applied mathematics, operation research or other quantitative disciplines; graduate degree and research experience are preferred
Minimum 2 years of professional experience in a software engineering or machine learning operations team
Working experience in at least one software engineering language (C/Java/Go) and one data science language (Python/R/MATLAB/Julia)
Working experience with Unix-like operating system and shell scripting
Experience with SQL/NoSQL database, large datasets; experience with unstructured data is a plus
Able to communicate and collaborate effectively in a diverse team environment
Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt
Passionate about sustainability issues and asset management industry
Experience in climate science, energy system modeling, climate policy or energy policy is a plus
Experience with financial and economic research and quantitative modeling is a plus
Experience with statistics, machine learning, deep learning and NLP is a plus
Experience with cloud platform and Cloud Native technology is a plus

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.

Vacancy expired!

ID	#19844960
State	New York
City	New york city
Job type	Permanent
Salary	USD TBD TBD
Source	BlackRock
Showed	2021-09-18
Date	2021-09-17
Deadline	2021-11-15
Category	Software/QA/DBA/etc
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Associate Software Engineer, Aladdin Sustainability (New York, NY)