About this role
Vice President, AI-Enabled Product Engineer – Aladdin, Investments & Trading Engineering
Location: Edinburgh
About the Role
BlackRock is seeking a Vice President, AI-Enabled Product Engineer to join Aladdin, Investments & Trading Engineering within Analytics & Compliance Engineering. This role is for a hands-on engineering leader who can build scalable agentic solutions while helping accelerate the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across the product development lifecycle.
The successful candidate will work at the intersection of investment technology, investment compliance workflows, full-stack engineering, and applied AI. They will help design and deliver capabilities across the Aladdin platform that support investment professionals, compliance teams, and business stakeholders operating in complex global markets.
About Aladdin, Investments & Trading Engineering
Aladdin is BlackRock’s technology platform used by investment professionals to manage portfolios, analyse risk, execute workflows, and make decisions at scale. Within Investments & Trading Engineering, Analytics & Compliance Engineering develops technology that helps teams manage investment guidelines, regulatory obligations, analytics-driven workflows, and operational controls across global markets.
The Investment and Trading Compliance Engineering team is responsible for developing and maintaining tools to ensure that organizations using Aladdin® comply at different stages of the asset management process. This includes ensuring that clients follow guidelines established internally, by themselves, and by the market regulators. The system accomplishes this through high-throughput rule-based compliance engines, which sit at the heart of the investment system and process millions of calculations per day.
Our engineering teams build products with real reach, real complexity, and real impact. We are evolving our platform with persona-based, workflow-driven experiences, modular architecture, resilient services, and responsible AI capabilities that improve productivity, decision-making, knowledge discovery, and operational efficiency.
What You’ll Do
Design, build, and deliver high-quality full-stack Agnetic product capabilities across the Aladdin platform, with a focus on Analytics & Compliance Engineering workflows.
Act as a hands-on technical leader across the product development lifecycle, contributing to technical design, implementation, testing, deployment readiness, production support, and continuous improvement.
Partner with product managers, engineers, compliance specialists, and business stakeholders to translate complex business problems into clear specifications, technical designs, delivery plans, and actionable Agile backlogs.
Apply AI-enabled engineering practices to accelerate design exploration, prototyping, software development, testing, code review, documentation, and operational support.
Help embed responsible AI capabilities into product workflows and platform services, including intelligent assistants, workflow automation, semantic search, knowledge retrieval, and reasoning over compliance and investment information.
Build scalable, resilient, and operable systems that balance functional requirements with non-functional concerns such as performance, latency, reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.
Influence architecture and technical direction across initiatives, articulating design trade-offs and aligning stakeholders around pragmatic engineering choices.
Champion engineering excellence through test-driven development, behaviour-driven development, DevOps practices, production readiness, and an SRE mindset.
Mentor engineers, raise the bar for technical quality, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, innovation, accountability, and collaboration across a global engineering organisation.
Qualifications
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience delivering enterprise-scale systems in production.
Strong full-stack engineering background, with hands-on experience in modern backend and frontend technologies.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives, shape ambiguous problem spaces, define execution plans, and deliver outcomes through collaboration with cross-functional partners.
Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, distributed systems, APIs, data flows, event-driven architecture, and resilient platform design.
Experience applying modern Agile, DevOps, and engineering excellence practices to improve delivery quality, team productivity, and operational outcomes.
Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Skills and Experience
Hands on experience with AI enabled SDLC / PDLC practices, including:
Using AI to accelerate design exploration, prototyping, and architectural decision making
Applying AI assisted development, testing, code review, and documentation practices
Embedding AI capabilities into product workflows and platform services responsibly and securely
Frameworks such as Devin / Windsurf, Cursor or GitHub Copilot
Hands-on full stack experience with Java or other modern backend languages, and frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
Experience designing and operating APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale.
Exposure to Generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, embeddings, knowledge retrieval, or agentic workflow patterns.
Strong focus on software quality, including automated testing, TDD, BDD, code review discipline, observability, resiliency, and production support.
Ability to reason about scalability, reliability, security, cost, maintainability, and delivery velocity when making technical decisions.
Experience working in large, global engineering organisations and collaborating across locations, time zones, product areas, and stakeholder groups.
Ability to build domain context quickly and translate investment, analytics, or compliance workflows into robust product and platform capabilities.
Preferred Experience
Experience in financial services, investment technology, compliance technology, regulatory technology, portfolio management, trading, or enterprise SaaS platforms.
Familiarity with compliance workflows, investment guidelines, rule intelligence, regulatory obligations, or controls-oriented technology.
Experience with cloud-native or hybrid architectures, containerisation, Kubernetes, observability platforms, CI/CD, and modern platform engineering practices.
Experience with AI governance, responsible AI principles, evaluation frameworks, model quality metrics, or monitoring of AI-enabled systems.
Exposure to domain-driven design, micro frontend architectures, platform strategies, or modular product architectures that enable multiple teams to deliver independently and consistently.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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 guidance 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 Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related STEM discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale systems in production
- Strong full-stack engineering experience with modern backend and frontend technologies
- Experience with Java or another modern backend language and React or Angular
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, data flows, event-driven architecture, and resilient platform design
- Experience leading technical initiatives and delivering outcomes with cross-functional partners
- Experience with Agile, DevOps, automated testing, TDD, BDD, code reviews, observability, resiliency, and production support
- Experience applying AI-enabled SDLC or PDLC practices
- Experience embedding AI capabilities into product workflows and platform services responsibly and securely
- Experience working in large, global engineering organizations
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Exposure to generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, embeddings, knowledge retrieval, or agentic workflows
- Experience in financial services, investment technology, compliance technology, regulatory technology, portfolio management, trading, or enterprise SaaS
- Familiarity with compliance workflows, investment guidelines, regulatory obligations, or controls-oriented technology
- Experience with cloud-native or hybrid architectures, containerization, Kubernetes, observability platforms, CI/CD, and platform engineering
- Experience with AI governance, responsible AI, evaluation frameworks, model quality metrics, or AI system monitoring
- Exposure to domain-driven design, micro frontend architectures, platform strategies, or modular product architectures
What We Do
As the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock partners with investors around the globe to help them (and those on whose behalf they invest) plan for life’s most important goals – like retirement, home ownership and their children’s education. Our clients range from governments, foundations and other large institutions to those investing on behalf of individuals, including firefighters, nurses, teachers and factory workers. BlackRock was founded with the idea of creating a better asset management firm — one that was purpose-driven, focused on clients and risk management, and propelled by data and technology. Our breakthrough Aladdin® platform is BlackRock’s technological backbone, helping investors see and manage their whole portfolios in one place – from constructing investments to monitoring risk and executing trades. Used by hundreds of external institutions around the world, Aladdin combines powerful analytics and a common language to help investment teams make faster, more informed decisions across public and private markets. It’s a key part of our business and one of the reasons we’re trusted to manage more assets than any other investment manager today. At BlackRock, we challenge conventions and raise the bar for what’s possible. We harness technology to unlock new solutions, simplify complexity, and deliver investment strategies that meet people where they are. Whether it’s retirement planning, wealth building or navigating market shifts, we’re here to help clients invest more easily, more affordably and with more choice as we chart a path toward financial well-being together. Learn more: Careers.BlackRock.com
Why Work With Us
Without our people, technology is irrelevant. When we combine the power of people with the power of technology, we amplify our ability to create better outcomes for our employees, clients, shareholders and society alike.
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