About this role
Business Overview
Understanding and managing risk is the cornerstone of BlackRock’s approach to responsible investing. The Risk & Quantitative Analysis (RQA) group provides independent oversight of BlackRock’s fiduciary and enterprise risks. Our mission is to advance the firm’s risk management practices and to deliver independent risk expertise and constructive challenges to drive better business and investment outcomes. RQA promotes BlackRock as a leader in risk management by providing independent top-down and bottom-up oversight to help identify investment, counterparty, operational, regulatory, technology, and third-party risks.
RQA is committed to investing in our people to increase both individual enablement and a strong collaborative environment. As a global group located all around the world, our goal is to create a culture of inclusion which encourages teamwork, innovation, diversity, and the development of our future leaders. We actively engage in discussions on career growth and work with team members to understand how personal passions and strengths connect with our purpose.
Role Description:
Core Risk Governance responsible for delivering firm‑wide risk oversight, governance, and control effectiveness across investment strategies and asset classes. The team plays a central role in ensuring the integrity of risk frameworks, portfolio setup controls, and governance processes by leveraging data, advanced analytics, automation, and AI‑enabled solutions at scale.
The function focuses on centralising risk governance activities, strengthening preventive controls, and embedding technology‑driven oversight across the investment lifecycle. By building standardized data frameworks, deploying AI‑ and analytics‑based controls, and delivering transparent, timely reporting, Core Risk Governance enables consistent decision‑making and robust escalation across the platform.
The team partners closely with Investment Risk, Technology, Data, Compliance, and Control functions to modernise risk governance—moving from manual, fragmented processes to systematic, scalable, and explainable AI‑enabled solutions that enhance risk visibility, control effectiveness, and operational resilience across Core RM.
Key Job Responsibilities:
Architect, build, and scale AI driven solutions—from ideation and proof of concept to production deployment—to transform risk and data processes through advanced automation, intelligent exception management, and predictive insights.
Write production grade code in Python to build data pipelines, automation frameworks, analytics libraries, and AI/ML components; ensure solutions are maintainable, tested, and deployable.
Design, build, and maintain resilient data pipelines (batch and streaming) with strong engineering controls, including SLAs, dependency management, backfills, replay/re ingest capabilities, and automated alerting..
Define and enforce data persistence, schema standardization, lineage, and metadata management, ensuring traceability, auditability, and long term reliability of analytical outputs.
Implement data quality and control frameworks, including automated validation checks, reconciliation to source, threshold based monitoring, and structured exception queues with clear escalation path.
Develop scalable analytics and reporting solutions, translating complex datasets into clear, explainable, and decision ready outputs for senior stakeholders.
Partner closely with cross functional teams (technology, data, risk, compliance) to embed governance, controls, and resilience directly into technical and AI enabled solutions
Continuously drive automation, process efficiency, and platform resilience, reducing manual intervention while improving accuracy, timeliness, and scalability.
Experience, Skills and Qualification:
Bachelor’s/Masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline.
3–6 years of hands‑on experience in Python‑based analytics and AI/ML, including building data pipelines, developing models/LLM/agent workflows, and integrating outputs into business processes.
Strong data engineering and data governance foundations, including data quality controls, lineage, metadata management, and control frameworks..
Proficiency in advanced analytics, with experience with tech platforms
Ability to design and implement reporting solutions for portfolio monitoring, stress testing, and regulatory compliance.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills to collaborate across investment, technology, and compliance teams.
Experience in automation and process optimization for reporting and analytics workflows.
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.
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.
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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.
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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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