Technical Solutions Architect - Aladdin Studio, Vice Presdient

Blackrock

NY7 - 50 Hudson Yards, New YorkPosted 3 days agoDiscoveredMatch locked

Full time5+ years exp

Your Team

Aladdin is an operating system for managing financial portfolios, bringing together the information, people, and technology needed across the investment process. It combines risk analytics with portfolio management, trading, and operations capabilities to support informed decision-making. Aladdin Studio is a developer platform that enables engineers, data analysts, portfolio managers, and other users to extend and customize Aladdin. Through programmatic integration, clients can build differentiated workflows, applications, reporting solutions, and investment tools that address their organization's specific needs.

Your Role and Impact

As a Technical Solutions Architect for Aladdin Studio, you will serve as a trusted client advocate and help organizations design differentiated solutions on top of Aladdin. You will work with executives, technical leaders, and end users to encourage effective development practices and build communities of Aladdin Studio users.

You will analyze existing workflows and business challenges, translate them into scalable solutions, and guide clients through architecture, pre-sales, and implementation decisions. You will also help shape Aladdin Studio's developer strategy by monitoring the product roadmap, industry trends, and client feedback and identifying opportunities to improve the platform and user experience.

Success in this role requires expertise in solution architecture, enterprise data products, cloud-based technologies, and asset management workflows. You will balance long-term solution strategy with practical, incremental improvements for stakeholders ranging from portfolio managers to information technology teams.

Your Responsibilities:

In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:

Build trusted relationships with client technical leaders and executives, promote adoption of Aladdin Studio, and guide architectural decisions that support successful enterprise deployment.
Use Aladdin Studio capabilities, including Aladdin Data Cloud, application programming interfaces (APIs), and the Compute Platform, to design scalable, fit-for-purpose solutions for clients and prospective clients.
Translate client feedback and financial technology trends into product improvements while coordinating the resolution of analytics issues and deployment of new capabilities.
Advise clients and internal partners on complex analytics questions and provide technical support throughout pre-sales and implementation engagements.
Demonstrate subject-matter expertise and thought leadership that strengthens client engagement and informs solution strategy.
Develop and share implementation best practices across solutions architecture and implementation teams, including contributions to client-facing publications and white papers.

Your Experience:

Five or more years of experience designing, implementing, consulting on, or operating distributed and cloud-based solutions in financial services, including the delivery of large and complex initiatives.
Experience in investment accounting, investment operations, portfolio management, trading, or risk management.
Familiarity with capital-markets instruments, including equities, fixed income, and derivatives, and knowledge of the investment lifecycle and associated workflows.
Experience with infrastructure or database architecture and working knowledge of cloud-based data warehouses, data lakes, and large-scale data-processing technologies.
Proficiency with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Structured Query Language (SQL), Microsoft Excel, and at least one scripting language such as Python.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data and sound reasoning to make recommendations and address complex challenges proactively.
Strong written, verbal, presentation, and orchestration skills, with the ability to collaborate across geographically distributed teams and communicate effectively with executives, information technology leaders, and developers. Experience leading technical sales consulting or architecture engagements with large enterprises is valued, as is a degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.

For NY7 - 50 Hudson Yards, New York Only the salary range for this position is USD$162,500.00 - USD$215,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person - aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock. Guidance on AI use for candidates At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work - enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we've provided

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on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self. About BlackRock At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress. This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive. To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com . We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn , Instagram , YouTube , X , and TikTok . BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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