Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) - Assistant Vice President – Data Engineering & Visualization

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
 

Business Unit: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi)

Business Unit Overview:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.   

   

BXTi is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.  

Job Title: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) - Assistant Vice President – Data Engineering & Visualization

Job Responsibilities:

• Full-stack design, development, and operation of core data stack including data lake, data warehouse, and data pipelines, ultimately facilitating data visualizations for data scientists and analysts across the firm and its portfolio companies.
• Build data flows for data acquisition, aggregation, and modeling, using both batch and streaming paradigms.
• Consolidate/join datasets to create easily consumable, consistent, holistic information.
• Design and implement machine learning models and prediction APIs, and ensure their operational performance over time.
• Empower data scientists and data analysts to be as self-sufficient as possible by building core systems and developing reusable library code.
• Use programming languages such as Python and SQL, as well as AWS Cloud Services, Snowflake data warehouses, and Airflow for workflow orchestration, as well as Tableau for data visualization.
• Support and optimize desktop and cloud environments for data scientists and data analysts.
• Make best-use of cloud native tools such as Vagrant and Docker as part of Blackstone’s development environment.
• Ensure efficiency, quality, resiliency of data science core systems.
• Work with senior technical staff throughout Blackstone's portfolio companies to develop data flows.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

Education

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Engineering, Professional Studies, Information Technology, or a related field

Experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience in job offered or related occupations
• Minimum 2 years experience as financial data engineer
• Minimum 2 years experience in cloud techniques like AWS, Azure, Airflow
• Minimum 2 years experience in big data, data science, data analysis, using Microsoft Excel.
• Any amount of experience analyzing complex data sets
• Any amount of experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python).
• Experience can be concurrent.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

$125,000 - $185,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted sala