About this role
OverviewThe Aladdin Solutions Product Architect is a senior, product-focused role responsible for shaping and delivering Aladdin-powered solutions for complex investment and trading workflows. The role partners across the business and Aladdin product & engineering teams to translate business problems into scalable, platform-aligned solutions. This is a high-impact role for someone who is energized by solving hard problems, operating across organizational lines, and turning ambiguity into action. The role offers a strong platform to demonstrate horizontal leadership through influence, partnership, and outcome-oriented execution.
Role MissionLead end-to-end solution design and execution for strategic initiatives by translating complex workflows into scalable Aladdin designs, driving co-build delivery across teams, and ensuring alignment to platform principles, APIs, and long-term architecture.
This team will operate as a unified partner with BlackRock business teams to shape and deliver some of the firm’s most critical and market-transformational workflows. The work will largely center on complex, multi-year strategic initiatives that require deep partnership across business, product, and engineering teams to redesign how investment and trading workflows are automated at scale.
- Fully automating the equity index order generation process.
- Fully automating FX trading workflows.
- Significantly increasing automation across the cash investment lifecycle, including PM and trading workflows.
- Evolving how order generation is automated by better leveraging market liquidity and platform intelligence.
- Partner with BlackRock business and Aladdin product stakeholders to design target-state solutions for complex, cross-functional workflows.
- Define what belongs in Aladdin versus business-owned technology, including APIs, data models, and end-to-end workflow design.
- Drive co-build execution across product and engineering teams, resolving dependencies and translating designs into build-ready requirements.
- Provide initiative leadership across design, build, and early production, with clear ownership, sequencing, and decision-making.
- Act as a senior partner to stakeholders across BGM and Aladdin, aligning teams and driving forward decisions.
- Ensure solutions follow Aladdin engineering standards and support scalable, reusable platform outcomes.
- 8–15+ years in product management, business analysis, solution architecture, or related implementation roles.
- Experience across front-office investment workflows, including portfolio management, trading, and operations.
- Strong Aladdin platform expertise or comparable OMS / investment platform experience.
- Strong API and AI fluency, with the ability to take an API-first and AI-first approach to problem solving, workflow design, and solution architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to challenge conventional approaches and help the business push boundaries in how API- and AI-enabled solutions are designed and adopted.
- Ability to bridge business needs and technical design while influencing senior stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving, ownership, and execution skills in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
- This is a senior, horizontal role focused on strategic, cross-functional initiatives.
- It is not a traditional single-domain PM, BA, or pure program management role.
- The role is focused on execution and solution delivery, not BAU support or incremental enhancements.
- Faster delivery of strategic initiatives and speed to value.
- Reduced cross-team friction and clearer ownership across delivery.
- Adoption of scalable, reusable platform solutions with successful transition to steady state.
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
- Extensive experience in solution architecture and software engineering leadership
- Proven track record delivering complex, large-scale technology solutions in enterprise environments
- Experience leading cross functional programs with high business and client impact
- Background in financial technology or complex domain-driven platforms
BlackRock Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible Time Off (no fixed PTO bank) with manager approval is highlighted alongside separate sick and bereavement leave, signaling broad time-off options. Feedback suggests this high‑trust approach is a notable strength among large employers.
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Parental & Family Support — Gender‑neutral U.S. parental leave offers up to 16 weeks for primary caregivers and up to 4 weeks for non‑primary caregivers, plus a two‑week flexible return‑to‑work transition. Backup child/elder care, fertility/adoption/surrogacy assistance, and lactation support are also emphasized.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include 401(k)/retirement savings plans, financial counseling/education, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, complemented by programs like tuition assistance and student‑loan/college‑savings support where applicable. Feedback suggests these components form a strong financial‑wellness package.
BlackRock Insights
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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