About this role
About this role
BlackRock is trusted to manage more money than any other investment manager in the world, helping millions of people and the world’s biggest institutions and governments reach their investment goals. We challenge businesses to reach higher standards by leading with purpose and promoting policies and practices that support long-term value creation. We use technology to think beyond what is possible and bring greater transparency to investing while democratizing access.
Our promise to our clients is to deliver products and services that provide clarity on the financial markets to help influence better investments decisions.
As a Financial Engineering VP, you will…
Participate in the development of the next generation Alpha Quant platform on Aladdin, which aims to unify our existing and already diverse client businesses at the same time as providing a new stream of revenue to the Aladdin business as we make our Alpha Gen technology a product to sell to external clients.
Partner across the Alpha Engineering group and Portfolio Management groups to deliver strong Alpha-enabling quantitative technology and platforms native to the next-generation cloud experience.
Improve Developer Experience in all phases of the Model Development Life Cycle, including initial insight capture, interactive exploration of Signals and Models in the Backtesting phase, code hardening to make models Production-ready, and investigation during Production support.
Develop tactical enhancements to legacy applications. Our team has supported one of the largest active asset management businesses in the world for more than two decades. We require hands-on technical expertise to maintain our existing business while continuously innovating.
Bring domain expertise in Scientific Python and Financial Technology to enhance performance, best practices, and code quality. In addition to one’s own development, this includes code and architecture reviews, training, and tooling.
Participate in the full lifecycle of software development – analysis, design, build, documentation, and testing, with a penchant for transformation.
Drive the adoption of the platform for newly acquired data sets into our database environment and managing all aspects of the loading process.
Identify, investigate, and resolve data discrepancies by finding the root cause of issues; work with Alpha product engineering to enhance the platform and prevent future occurrences.
Provide basic reporting and respond to inquiries asking for insights about the platform from senior leaders, in a timely fashion
Create and execute strategies for cloud native SDLC, ensuring the ability to leverage elastic scale while still having rigorous discipline of unit and integration testing.
Work with the release manager, dev ops, and prod ops team to ensure solutions are well tested, production ready and well documented.
Example Projects
Create blueprints for running a complex, multi-step signal computation on an image-based Kubernetes platform – persisting data to cloud-native stores like Snowflake and Azure Blob Storage.
Creation of a common Cloud-native local development Environment. R&D combines the use of Jupyter Notebooks, IDEs like PyCharm, terminals, and web apps. We are aiming to create a way for all developers to run their code on a common environment, meaning both tools and run-time environment, available to users on Windows, Mac, and VDI.
Addition of features such as caching, reshaping, checkpointing and idempotency to our quantitative processes.
Refactoring of signal algorithms to be more horizontally scalable and observable across our platform.
Translating object-oriented Python solutions into Service-based ones.
Adding programmatic access to configurations now only accessible via web interface.
Building out our next generation Docker based image environments and facilitating the adoption of that across our existing landscape.
What You'll Need
Expertise in Python programming language, its paradigms, and best practices. Expertise across the Software Development Life Cycle, development, testing, building, and release of best-in-class applications. Additional languages a plus.
Track record of developing compute heavy processes in cloud native environments and developing a DevOps model around it
8+ years of experience in the financial services sector, preferably at top-tier asset managers, investment banks, consulting in a data-driven role, or at innovative technology firms.
Strong multi-functional experience in financial markets, models and data management.
Ability to clearly articulate and present ideas both in writing and verbally; to senior management as well as outside audiences
Experience in working on long-term projects and iterative development cycles where constant improvement is expected
Able to work optimally under pressure and in a rapidly changing environment to meet deadlines
Focused attention to detail and high standards for quality and accuracy in his/her work product
Professional, positive demeanor
Collaborative, team-oriented, service-oriented outlook
University Degrees in applied scientific disciplines preferred
Preferable to have experience with Microsoft Azure and Snowflake.
Preferable to have experience with Docker and Kubernetes
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.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.