Senior Data Architect/Data Engineer, Aladdin Engineering - Vice President

At BlackRock, technology is the foundation of our business. As a Data Engineer, you’ll build resilient systems that power our global post-trade operations. You’ll design and deliver enterprise-scale software with a focus on reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

Requirements

• Partner with domain experts, product, and engineering teams to design canonical data models
• Build and evolve analytics-ready datasets in Snowflake
• Design and develop reliable ELT/ETL pipelines across Snowflake and SQL Server
• Implement robust pipeline patterns such as incremental processing, idempotency, deduplication, and backfill/reprocessing strategies
• Establish and enforce data quality and observability practices
• Optimize analytical performance and cost
• Publish curated data to downstream systems and serving layers
• Drive best practices for documentation, lineage, schema evolution, and secure handling of sensitive data
• Strong SQL skills (advanced querying, query plans, performance tuning) with hands-on experience in Snowflake and/or Microsoft SQL Server
• Proven experience with data modeling for analytics (dimensional modeling / star schemas, conformed dimensions, slowly changing dimensions)
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing ELT/ETL pipelines, including batch and near-real-time patterns
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language used for data engineering (e.g., Python, Java, or Scala) for automation, orchestration, and integrations
• Working knowledge of modern data engineering practices: testing for transformations, CI/CD, environment promotion, and operational monitoring

Benefits

• Strong retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Annual discretionary bonus