Director - Data & Analytics, BlackRock Investment Stewardship

BlackRock•New York, NY

23h•$200,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The BlackRock Investment Stewardship (BIS) team operates globally across three regions: Americas (New York and San Francisco), Europe, Middle East and Africa (London), and Asia-Pacific (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney). BIS engages with and votes at portfolio companies on behalf of index clients worldwide. This role is an exciting opportunity to join a team of high-performing specialists globally. The BIS team's activities are guided by its role as a fiduciary for clients. The Director will lead the Data & Analytics team within BIS, supporting the delivery of processes and tools for the global BIS team. The role is based in New York and reports to the Head of Platform, BIS. The Director will manage three engineers based in New York and will be responsible for delivering global, data-centric stewardship capabilities, including research and reporting, to complement the qualitative company-specific research conducted by BIS engagement and voting analysts. This role involves driving the buildout and maintenance of various tools and processes in support of BIS’ engagement, voting, and client reporting operations, in close partnership with BIS’ engagement and voting analysts. The ideal candidate should have a passion for creative and critical thinking about the stewardship ecosystem, investment research, financial and corporate governance data analysis, and working closely with the broader technology business at BlackRock.

Requirements

8-12 years of experience in data engineering
Recent experience in evaluating and deploying modern AI techniques
Undergraduate degree is required
Demonstrated experience with building research and analytics platforms
Expert-level proficiency in relational modeling and complex query optimization
Experienced in AI including orchestration and building workflows, UI/UX, and building RAG-based systems
Design robust schemas and ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest corporate filings, global news, and financial data, maximizing our ability to deliver rapid insights
Ability to integrate cutting-edge AI into BIS workflow. Should be comfortable with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) search, Agentic Workflows, and AI embeddings to help query massive datasets intuitively
Demonstrated experience using Python or C# to automate workflows and solve engineering hurdles
Significant experience with Snowflake (specifically Lake House implementations)
Effective communication skills. The successful candidate must have the confidence and ability to interact at the most senior levels and collaborate with both technical and non-technical personnel
Collaborative working style, with strong interpersonal skills
Experience of engaging and working effectively with partner technology teams in a multi-national organization

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree (Masters) in a technical field (Computer Science, Statistics) is a plus

Responsibilities

Enable the stewardship platform, spanning research, voting and client reporting
Leverage expertise in automation to improve analyst efficiency and controls
Support voting and engagement client reporting by designing and maintaining a code stack utilizing BlackRock’s applications and tools, including managing any interface with Aladdin and other external applications and vendors
Partner with other analytical and technology functions across BlackRock, including the Aladdin Product Group, and Risk and Quantitative Analysis to build, maintain and improve technological solutions
Ensure integrity of the BIS data environment and oversee the quality control of BIS proprietary datasets. Golden source of truth for data-rich publications
Direct team of data analysts in appropriate design and use of data tools and reports