Vice President Lead Platform Engineer

Blackrock

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$162,000–$215,000 / yr
Posted
16 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $188k
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This role pays more than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$209,900 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $188k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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About Blackrock

BlackRock is the world''s largest asset management firm, providing investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional and retail clients through its Aladdin technology platform. Industry: Asset Management & Financial Services

Blackrock currently has 81 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Vice President Lead Platform Engineer

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The Vice President – Lead Platform Engineer joins the engineering team to drive the strategy, architecture, and delivery of next-generation capabilities on Aladdin. This role focuses on building scalable, governed, and event-driven data ecosystems that power investment, analytics, and reporting platforms with high-quality, near real-time data. You will lead the development of event-driven architectures using streaming platforms like Kafka while establishing robust data governance, quality, lineage, and observability practices. The position requires expertise in distributed systems and programming in Python, Java, or Scala to promote engineering excellence through CI/CD and automation. Working within the financial services and asset management domain, you will design enterprise-grade platform building blocks that ensure reliability and cost efficiency while aligning technical infrastructure with specific investment use cases and business outcomes across the organization.

Skills

Event-Driven Architecture Kafka Python Java Scala Streaming Platforms CI/CD Distributed Systems Data Governance Observability Automation Platform Engineering

What you'll do

  • Define and execute the data platform engineering strategy focused on event-driven systems and scalability.
  • Lead the development of architectures using streaming platforms like Kafka and modern processing frameworks.
  • Establish and enforce data governance, quality, lineage, and observability practices across the platform.
  • Design and deliver enterprise-grade building blocks for investment, analytics, and reporting platforms.
  • 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 decisions and drive the adoption of reusable, standardized solutions.
  • Align platform engineering initiatives with specific business outcomes in financial services and investment domains.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience in platform engineering and distributed systems.
  • Experience with modern event-driven solutions and streaming platforms like Kafka.
  • Strong expertise in programming using Python, Java, or Scala.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling production-grade platforms.
  • Prior experience in financial services or asset management (preferred).

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