Financial Engineer, Alphagen - Vice President Job in Blackrock

Position: Alpha Gen Product Engineer

Job Overview:

At BlackRock, we are seeking Software Engineers who thrive in innovative environments and enjoy solving complex challenges. This is an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and impact the financial markets through our Aladdin investment operating system, which powers decision-making for thousands of users worldwide. The Alpha Gen Technology group (AGT) is focused on enabling market-leading performance for BlackRock's investment teams. Join a team of innovators to work on next-generation technology in the quantitative and investment space.

About Aladdin and Aladdin Engineering:

Aladdin is BlackRock s investment operating system, used by financial institutions worldwide. It integrates sophisticated risk analytics, portfolio management, trading, and operations tools into one platform. The Aladdin Engineering group develops and maintains this platform, building tools that manage trillions in assets and support millions of financial instruments.

Your Role and Impact:

As an Alpha Product Engineer in the Alpha Gen Platform team, you will develop a cloud-first platform used for both quantitative research and production systems. You will be involved in the full lifecycle of the platform, from design and architecture to development, implementation, production support, and maintenance.

Your Responsibilities:

• Build a groundbreaking, high-quality Alpha Gen platform to meet the data and quantitative needs of research and production.
• Prototype new alpha-enabling technology.
• Migrate large amounts of critical data to cloud-native data stores like Snowflake and Azure Blob Storage.
• Understand and address scale challenges in data access and persistence in ingestion pipelines.
• Work with modern data lakes, structured file formats, containers, and orchestration ecosystems.
• Partner with other engineering teams at BlackRock to integrate with Aladdin.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 8+ years of proven experience in software engineering.
• Excellent coding skills in Python; knowledge of Scala or Java is a plus.
• Experience with distributed technologies like Spark, Dask, or Kubernetes.
• Desire to build expertise in cloud-native technologies and applications deployed to cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with agile practices, test automation, pipelines, release management, and deployment strategies.
• Good understanding of the modern data ecosystem Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, Parquet formats, object stores (S3, Azure Blob Storage), and orchestration systems (Airflow, Prefect).
• A curiosity and passion to learn new technologies.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

What Will You Learn on the Job?

• A deep understanding of the modern data and quantitative ecosystem.
• How to build a platform that enables alpha generation at scale.
• Experience with Aladdin the investment platform used to manage over $15 trillion in global assets.
• How to apply enterprise integration patterns and data science technology to enable alpha generation.

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 options.
• Support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) to recharge.

Our Hybrid Work Model:

BlackRock s hybrid work model supports collaboration while offering flexibility. Employees are required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the option to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office.

About BlackRock:

BlackRock is dedicated to helping people experience financial well-being. Our clients rely on us to support their financial goals, including saving for retirement, funding education, and growing their businesses. We invest in our employees by fostering an environment where they feel welcomed, valued, and supported with networks, benefits, and development opportunities to thrive.