Vice President - Data Governance

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.  

Role Brief: 

The Aladdin Data Governance Office is responsible for ensuring the data needs within BlackRock and the clients of BlackRock Solutions are fulfilled with well governed complete, accurate and timely data, along with enabling opportunities to commercialize the firm’s data.  

As a Vice President of Data Governance, you will support a growing area in a dynamic and challenging environment.   
  

Job Responsibilities: 

• Support the firmwide rollout and execution of the Critical Investment Data (CID) Governance Policy, coordinating across federated COOs, delegates, data stewards, and data product owners to ensure all businesses register, document, and govern their datasets consistently and end‑to‑end. 

• Partner with COOs, delegates, and data owners to activate BlackRock’s Data Strategy and implement governance policies, standards, and operating models with consistent adoption across the data lifecycle. 

• Build strong, influential relationships across the federated data governance network, aligning priorities, encourage knowledge sharing and driving sustained execution across the firm. 

• Run firmwide and federated data governance forums and working groups to review policy activation, dataset compliance, issues, risks, understand new platform/tool requirements, driving clear actions and accountability. 

• Support the deployment governance capabilities, data taxonomy and tools across federated groups, coordinating readiness, onboarding, training, and ongoing adoption while supporting teams in interpreting metadata and data requirements and integrating governance into their processes. 

• Facilitate cross‑business collaboration and knowledge‑sharing by supporting a data community, hosting cross-group sessions, distributing playbooks, methodologies and best practices to federated stewards and product teams. 

• Guide federated groups in data profiling, dataset creation, metadata documentation, data quality monitoring, entitlements, and issue management, helping them apply data governance standards and