Software Engineer-Data Quality Engineering-Associate

About this role

Are you interested in building innovative technology that crafts the financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a start-up, and solving some of the world’s most exciting challenges? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in technology and finance?

At BlackRock, we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

We invest and protect over $11 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial well-being.

Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most sophisticated financial companies and being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.

What are Aladdin Data and Process Engineering

• Data is at the heart of Aladdin and increasingly the ability to consume, store, analyze and gain insight from data has become a key component of our competitive advantage. Aladdin Data team is responsible for the data ecosystem within BlackRock. Our goal is to build and maintain a leading-edge data platform that provides highly available, consistent data of the highest quality for all users of the platform, notably investors, operations teams, and data scientists. We focus on evolving our platform to deliver exponential scale to the firm, powering the future growth of Aladdin.
• Process Engineering engineers at BlackRock get to experience working at one of the most recognized financial companies in the world while being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technologies and solutions. Our engineers design and build large scale applications, data pipelines, process integrations for computation processes, and distributed systems. They partner with data and analytics experts to deliver high quality analytical and derived data to our consumers.

Responsibilities include:

• Take ownership of individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables using AGILE methodologies
• Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems.
• Understand and refine business and functional requirements.
• Significantly contribute to development of Aladdin Data’s Process Engineering platform.
• Work with product management and business users to define the roadmap for the product.
• Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.
• Maintain and evolve AI/ML models, maximising and contributing powerful technologies/ infrastructure
• Apply validated quality software engineering practices through all phases of development.
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, dev ops and level two production support.
• Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating others.
• Drive a strong culture by bringing principles of inclusion and diversity to the team and setting the tone through specific recruiting, management actions and employee engagement.
• Providing L2 or L3 support for technical and/or operational issues.

Qualifications:

• B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area
• 3+ years of relevant experience.

Skills and Experience:

• A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with OO skills and design patterns
• Design and implement microservices-based architectures, ensuring modularity, scalability, and maintainability of the system and work with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to package and deploy applications consistently across different environments
• Experience to cloud native technology like Kubernetes, docker, microservices etc.
• Previous experience related to building prompts for AI/ML models is preferred
• Track record building high quality software with design-focused and test-driven approaches
• Good hands-on object-oriented programming knowledge in Java, Spring, TypeScript, JavaScript, Microservices, Angular (2.0+).
• Strong knowledge of Open-Source technology stack (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, JUnit).
• Advanced knowledge and experience developing and working with relational databases (e.g.