Data Engineering , Aladdin Data - Associate

About this role What is Aladdin Studio? When BlackRock was started in 1988, its founders envisioned a company that combined the best of financial services with cutting edge technology. They imagined a company that would provide financial services to clients as well as technology services to other financial firms. The result of their vision is Aladdin, our industry leading, end-to-end investment management platform. Aladdin Studio ("Studio") is an integrated platform to discover data, build financial applications, and connect Aladdin to other applications. Studio enables and empowers development for the entire Aladdin community - from citizen developers to full-time engineers. It includes Aladdin's API surface, cloud investment data platform – the Aladdin Data Cloud, and hosted developer environment – Aladdin Compute. Team Overview: Data is at the core of the Aladdin platform, and increasingly, our ability to consume, store, analyze, and gain insight from data is a key component of our competitive advantage. As part of Aladdin Studio, The Aladdin Data Cloud (ADC) Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining data-as-a-service solution for all the data management and transformation needs. We engineer high performance data pipelines, provide a fabric to discover and consume data, and continually evolve our data surface capabilities. As a Data engineer in the ADC Engineering team, you will: - Work alongside our engineers to help design and build scalable data pipelines while evolving the data surface. Help prove out and productionize Cloud Native Infrastructure and tooling to support scalable data cloud. Have fun as part of an awesome team. Specific Responsibilities: It's a mix of backend application engineering (Python backend) including data engineering to build solution leveraging existing Data Framework Collaborating in a multi-disciplinary squad involving program and product managers, data scientists, and client professionals to expand the product offering based on business impact and demand Be involved from inception of projects, understanding requirements, designing & developing solutions, and incorporating them into the designs of our platforms Maintain excellent knowledge of the technical landscape for data & cloud tooling Assist in troubleshooting issues, support the operation of production software Write technical documentation Required Skills 4+ years of industry experience in data engineering area. Passion for engineering and optimizing data sets, data pipelines and architecture. Ability to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, lineage, and metadata. Knowledge of SQL and performance tuning. Experience with Snowflake is preferred. Good working knowledge languages such as Python/Java Understanding of software deployment and orchestration technologies such as airflow etc. Experience in creating and evolving CI/CD pipelines with Gitlab or Azure Data Ops.

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.