Lead Platform Engineer (Java,Python) - Vice President

BlackRock•New York, NY

1d•$162,000 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Vice President – Lead Platform Engineer will drive the strategy, architecture, and delivery of next-generation engineering capabilities on Aladdin. This role is responsible for building scalable, governed, and event-driven data ecosystems that power investment, analytics, and reporting platforms with high-quality, near real-time data. The Vice President – Lead Platform Engineer will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade platforms that will act as building blocks for the rest of the business. This role will champion modern architecture patterns, including event-driven and streaming frameworks, and establish and enforce platform-as-a-product principles, and governance frameworks. The role serves as a senior technical leader partnering across engineering, product, and platform organizations.

Requirements

Extensive experience in platform engineering, distributed systems, and modern event-driven solutions (e.g., Kafka).
Strong expertise in programming (Python, Java, or Scala).
Proven track record of building and scaling production-grade platforms.
Experience with streaming and event-driven architecture.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in financial services or asset management preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the data platform engineering strategy around event-driven systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Lead development of event-driven architectures leveraging streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka) and modern processing frameworks.
Establish robust data governance, quality, lineage, and observability practices across the platform.
Partner with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with business and investment use cases.
Promote engineering excellence through CI/CD, automation, and standardized development practices.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and direction to high-performing engineering teams.
Influence enterprise architecture and platform strategy decisions.
Drive adoption of scalable, reusable, and standardized solutions across the organization.
Ensure alignment between platform engineering initiatives and business outcomes, particularly in financial services and investment domains.