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Business Overview: BlackRock helps investors build better financial futures. As a fiduciary to our clients, we provide the investment and technology solutions they need when planning for their most important goals. At the heart of technology at BlackRock, is Aladdin Engineering (AE), the team responsible for designing, building, and operating Aladdin, BlackRock’s investment and operating technology platform. Being a member of Aladdin Engineering means working with the industry’s thought leaders to build and power innovative and next generation investment technology products that shape the financial markets. We are 3,500 strong and we eat, live and breathe tech. We partner with our end users to deeply understand their business strategy and build technology to help them get there. We think big about new opportunities and ways technology can change the financial services ecosystem. Since its inception, Aladdin has fueled the firm’s commercial success. The question that we are asking ourselves today is: how do we continue to revolutionize Aladdin through to the next wave of innovation? Join us and play a critical role in shaping the future of FinTech. The Aladdin Quality Engineering team creates the strategy for delivering software resiliently at scale, in a business that is remarkable in its scale and incredibly risk-aware. This global team is a fundamental part of Aladdin’s core business, driving new revenue, unlocking trust and scale, and enabling the growth of our client business. A successful candidate will have a critical seat in accelerating Aladdin’s and BlackRock’s multi-year strategy, including enabling the technology transformations that are necessary for us to grow our future businesses. You will fall in love with the culture, be excited by the challenge, and be an inspiration to your team to get things done.
Job Responsibility:
Lead a global team of ~250 quality engineers, including a central hub of engineering transformation leaders
Partner with key product leaders and stakeholders across multiple businesses
Align our transformation strategy with our platform strategy to ensure our multi-year technology strategy is future-facing, adaptive and risk-adjusted
Requirements:
Significant technical leadership experience in Technology or Financial Services, with a track record of delivering for complex clients
Experience as a leader in both software development and quality engineering, ideally in building a culture of quality and stability as first principles
Strong intellectual ability and stakeholder management skills, evidenced by being able to establish his/her credibility and influence with senior leaders throughout the firm
Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic business environment and continually reprioritize to focus on the key issues/topics
Outstanding interpersonal characteristics, reputation, and team orientation, which will enable her/him to earn confidence, loyalty, and respect of colleagues
Nice to have:
AI domain knowledge, in the context of driving productivity, automation and migrations, is a nice-to-have