Vice President, Data Workflow Engineering/ Java Backend Development (Open)
- Employer
- BlackRock
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 13 May 2024
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- Sector
- Banking and Financial Services
- Role
- C-suite
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
About this role
Are you interested in building innovative technology that crafts the financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a startup, 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 $9 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 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.
Being a member of Aladdin Data, you will be:
- Tenacious: Work in a fast paced and highly complex environment
- Creative thinker: Analyses multiple solutions and deploy technologies in a flexible way.
- Great teammate: Think and work collaboratively and communicate effectively.
- Fast learner: Pick up new concepts and apply them quickly.
- Architecting, sequencing, developing, deploying, and maintaining products within Process Engineering
- Managing a team of engineers and aligning its members on the products' vision.
- Collaborating with product managers to gather, refine, and validate requirements define the roadmap for the product.
- Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment.
- Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems.
- Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.
- 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.
- B.E./ B.TECH./ MCA or any other relevant engineering degree from a reputed university.
- 7 - 12 years of experience
- A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with OO skills and design patterns.
- Track record building high quality software with design-focused and test-driven approaches.
- Hands-on experience in Java/ Spring Framework/Sprint Boot/Hibernate/Micro-services.
- Advanced knowledge and experience developing and working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Sybase) and NoSQL distributed storage technologies (e.g., Cassandra).
- Experience in building microservices and APIs ideally with REST, Kafka or gRPC.
- In depth understanding of concurrent programming and experience in designing high throughput, high availability, fault tolerant distributed applications.
- Demonstrable experience building modern software using engineering tools such as git, maven, unit testing and integration testing tools, mocking frameworks.
- Strong analytical and software architecture design skills with an emphasis on test driven development
- Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills
- Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.
- Exposure to high scale distributed technology like Kafka, Mongo, Ignite, Redis
- Exposure to building microservices and APIs ideally with REST, Kafka or gRPC
- A real-world practitioner of applying cloud-native design patterns to event-driven microservice architectures.
- Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
- Experience with cloud deployment technology (Docker, Ansible, Terraform, etc.) is also a plus.
- Experience with AI-related projects/products or experience working in an AI research environment.
- Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud services is beneficial.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person - aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.
Job requisition #
R240843
Company
About Us
BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. We serve pension plans providing for nurses, teachers, firefighters, law enforcement and other public and private sector workers, individual investors investing for their own retirement, and institutions such as governments, foundations and insurance companies. Clients turn to BlackRock for the innovative solutions they need when planning for their most important goals. We are passionate about helping those we serve build a strong financial future, so we seek out a diverse range of perspectives and talents to solve their most complex challenges.
While our firm has offices across more than 30 countries, we operate as "One BlackRock:” our people thrive on collaboration, mutual trust and respect, and we inspire each other to collectively raise our game. BlackRock is dedicated to its principles, which include a culture of equity and inclusion, where employees can bring their full selves to every conversation, every day.
Our employee networks
Our global networks are dynamic communities built on shared experiences, intersectionality and allyship. They are culture carriers for the firm, offering employees and allies the opportunity to enhance and shape the inclusive culture to which we aspire. Employee networks are sponsored by senior leaders and are proudly designed by employees, for employees.
The Ability & Allies Network (ABN) provides a sense of community, advocacy, resources and support for all types of disability-related issues within the firm.
Awards:
2022 Disability:IN Disability Equality Index
BlackRock was recognised as one of the Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion after scoring 100% on the Disability Equality Index. The index is a joint initiative between the American Association of People with Disabilities and Disability:IN. that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions that they can take to achieve disability inclusion and equality.
Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2022 – US & UK
This recognition is a result of the feedback provided by current and former colleagues about their experiences working at BlackRock. Ranking #72 in the US and #12 in the UK.
#1 Capital Markets Industry 2023
BlackRock was named one of America’s Most JUST Companies for the 3rd consecutive year, according to Forbes and JUST Capital. We ranked #1 in the Capital Markets industry. The 2023 list of America’s Most JUST Companies celebrates U.S. corporations that outperform their peers in the Russell 1000 on the priorities of the American people – including issues like fair pay, ethical leadership, good benefits and work-life balance, equal opportunity, customer treatment and privacy, community support, environmental impact, and delivering shareholder return. By balancing the needs of all stakeholders, JUST 100 companies demonstrate that profits and purpose can go hand in hand.
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