Director, Data Pipeline Engineering

About this role

Overview 
The Director of the Engineering Alternative Data Pipeline Chapter leads a global team of talented engineers who are responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure that ingests data and transforms it into investable portfolios. You will support, maintain, design, develop, and deploy scalable and reliable systems that process into multiple Aladdin BlackRock and client instances every day. Partner with a wide range of product, technical, business and leadership stakeholders to define and build the future state for Alternative data at BlackRock. 

Responsibilities 

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of alternative data pipeline engineers, ensuring high performance and career development. This includes hiring, onboarding, coaching, and providing feedback to the team members. 

• Establish and enforce best practices, code quality standards, agile development methods, CI/CD procedures and testing frameworks for pipeline development. 

• Architect and implement solutions that optimize performance, reliability, and scalability. 

• Provide level-3 support to troubleshoot issues related to alternative data pipeline operations, availability, and latency. Triage complex operational and performance problems in legacy code bases (Perl, Python, Sybase, proprietary).  

• Collaborate and negotiate with other engineering leaders, product managers, operations personnel, senior leadership and business stakeholders to prioritize the development backlog. 

• Research and evaluate innovative technologies and trends in data engineering and transform legacy processes onto our Enterprise Data Platform (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Python). 

• Manage and oversee the work of contingent workers. Manage budget and turnover with outsourcing providers.  
   

Qualifications 

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience. 

• A graduate degree in Finance or MBA is highly desirable. 

• Experience in Financial Services (Investment Banking, Alternative data, Treasury or Asset Management in particular). 

• Experience with Financial Service vendor data and data exchange mechanisms. 

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. 

• Outstanding managerial skills with the ability to navigate challenging team dynamics across global time zones. 

• Must be able to manage up, down and across to negotiate priorities, resources and joint development. Must be able to build and nurture a broad network beyond your management chain.  

• 12+ years of experience in big data, data warehousing, data lakes, data architecture, data engineering, with at least 5 years in a significant leadership role. 

• Strong knowledge of ETL / ELT tools and processes, relational databases, advanced SQL development, data modeling and advanced data pipeline architectures. 

• Development experience in multiple programming languages ideal, proficiency in Python highly desirable. Exposure to Perl would be very beneficial.  

• Must have strong understanding of and experience with DataOps concepts, CI/CD, ADO/Git repo management, release management and Agile software development practices.   

• Experience with big data technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, or Elasticsearch. 

• Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and data warehouse solutions, such as Snowflake. Azure and Snowflake strongly preferred.  

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.

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