Enterprise Architect - Aladdin Platform Engineering, DIR

BlackRock•New York, NY

11h•$215,000 - $275,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackRock is hiring a Director, Enterprise Architecture within its Aladdin Engineering group to define and drive strategic architecture across the asset management platform. The role aligns business strategy, regulatory obligations, and technology capabilities, and influences target-state architecture across front-, middle-, and back-office domains. Its work supports scalable investment processes, robust risk management, and resilient client servicing. The architect partners with senior leaders across investments, distribution, operations, risk, compliance, and technology to modernize platforms while maintaining security, availability, and regulatory compliance. The Aladdin Engineering group designs and scales technology for future challenges, builds solutions for BlackRock and its global client ecosystem, champions best practices and open-source communities, and delivers high-quality, testable software with continuous innovation. The position leads enterprise and domain architecture; data and analytics architecture; technology strategy and governance; cloud and platform modernization; AI adoption; transformation and change; and regulatory, risk, and resilience efforts. The role requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering and at least 10 years of enterprise or solution architecture experience within financial services. A master’s degree is preferred. The listed New York, NY salary range is USD $215,000–$275,000, with eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits. BlackRock uses a hybrid work model requiring employees to work in the office at least four days per week, with flexibility to work from home one day per week; some business groups may require more in-office time.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
At least 10 years of enterprise or solution architecture experience within financial services.
Deep understanding of asset management domains, including investments, risk, operations, and distribution.
Proven experience in regulated, high-availability environments.
Strong ability to communicate complex concepts to senior stakeholders.
Strong understanding of risk, controls, and regulatory obligations.
Ability to influence across business and technology domains, make pragmatic decisions under pressure, and communicate clearly and confidently with senior stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Strong foundation in data architecture and analytics platforms.
Cloud architecture experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP in regulated environments.
Familiarity with APIs, event streaming, messaging, and modern design patterns, including SOA, microservices, and DDD.
Hands-on coding experience in Java, Python, JavaScript, or C/C++; experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
Experience with frameworks for streaming and distributed systems, including distributed event-streaming and messaging platforms and highly available distributed NoSQL data storage platforms.
Knowledge of secure architectures and modern web stacks.
TOGAF and cloud certifications.
Advanced problem-solving and influential communication across global teams.
Collaborative leadership across time zones.
Strategic mindset with commercial awareness, passion for technology, and ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain architecture vision, principles, and target-state architecture for investment platforms, data and analytics platforms, client and distribution services, IT operations, and core operational and reference data services.
Align architecture with the firm’s business strategies and commercial outcomes.
Define enterprise data architecture for investment, market, reference, and client data.
Enable advanced analytics, risk modelling, and performance attribution, and promote data governance, lineage, quality, and privacy controls.
Establish architecture standards and approved patterns for cloud, data, integration, and security; govern solution designs for consistency, reuse, and alignment.
Drive technology rationalization and vendor/platform strategy.
Lead cloud and hybrid architecture strategy while balancing innovation with regulatory constraints.
Modernize legacy systems supporting trading, settlement, accounting, and reporting; support strategic partnerships with fintech and market infrastructure providers.
Define enterprise AI strategy and identify opportunities for AI/ML integration across Aladdin platform components.
Establish governance frameworks for ethical AI use, regulatory compliance, and risk controls; align AI initiatives with business objectives and drive decisions on AI platforms, tooling, and vendor partnerships.
Provide architectural leadership for front-to-back platform modernization, data and analytics transformation, and M&A integration and platform consolidation.
Identify technical debt and define pragmatic remediation roadmaps.
Ensure compliance with global regulations and internal risk policies; embed resilience, continuity, and disaster recovery in designs.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Cybersecurity to build controls by design.
Guide software architecture decisions and evaluate integration methods; communicate complex concepts to senior stakeholders and collaborate across global teams and time zones.