Index Equity Technology Engineer, Director

BlackRock • San Francisco, CA

107d • $215,000 - $275,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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 meticulous 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. The Index Equity Technology team within BGM (Blackrock Global Markets) is seeking to expand and improve business efficiency, scalability and deliver faster. This business-side role entails working with Portfolio Managers, Citizen Developers, and the Aladdin teams, in order to build a best-in-class investment platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in computer science/engineering/quantitative field with strong computing skills or equivalent experience
• Exceptional technical and programming skills in Python (preferred), Java, C++ and working with traditional and cloud databases
• Proficiency in software development life cycle (SDLC) that covers agile development methodologies, code versioning tools, and continuous integration
• Experience writing functional and technical specification documents
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and project management skills
• Excellent teammate with motivation and inquisitiveness and has comfort with ambiguity
• Effective interpersonal skills and partner management skills
• High level of self-motivation with ability to own and drive multiple projects at once
• High degree of professional integrity, discretion and judgment

Nice To Haves

• Interest and experience in innovative technology like AI is a plus

Responsibilities

• Implement an innovative platform, primarily in Python, for the development, deployment, maintenance and monitoring of investment systems
• Identify, and implement, opportunities for improvement of operational processes
• Understand the BlackRock technology platform and integrate the investment platform into it
• Enable Citizen Developers to deliver tactical and strategic solutions to automate manual processes
• Collaborate with BlackRock technology teams that support BGM, to ensure that they understand our requirements and build well-suited tools
• Build out tactical solutions to accelerate meeting business needs while continuing to plan out strategic long-term solution

Benefits

• Strong retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree