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Python Financial Engineering Platform Lead, Vice President
BlackRockBudapest, Hungary
Posted February 10, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and an outstanding provider of global investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world.
Job Description
We are looking for a self-motivated lead software engineer to spearhead the development of our Python Financial Engineering Platform. The successful candidate will have experience with Python library development, Azure DevOps, Apache Arrow, and Snowflake for data warehousing and computation. The role involves leading platform development, facilitating technical design and code review sessions, building widely used and reliable fundamental components, and staying abreast of the latest developments in machine learning, quantitative finance, and technology.
Requirements
- Quickly learn the platform and act as a subject matter expert towards modelling teams.
- Lead platform development supporting both financial engineers and researchers.
- Facilitate technical design and code review sessions to ensure software meets functional and compatibility requirements, as well as high quality standards.
- Build widely used and reliable fundamental components as part of the platform, distributed as Python libraries.
- Build high quality software that improves the user experience of the downstream modeller and developer.
- Stay abreast of the latest developments in machine learning, quantitative finance, and technology to incorporate innovative solutions into our platform.
- Working with modellers to understand the business and their requirements. Help refactor and optimise the risk model code.
- Enhance the performance of existing models, ensuring they operate efficiently at scale.
- Implementation and maintenance of a standard data / technology deployment workflow to ensure that all deliverables/enhancements are delivered in a disciplined and robust manner.
- Ensure operational readiness of the product and meet customer commitments with regards to incident SLAs.
Benefits
- Retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future;
- Access to education reimbursement;
- Comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being;
- Family support programs;
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.