About this role
About Hyperion
Hyperion is BlackRock’s strategic platform for AI-enabled processing of unstructured data, in particular related to Private Markets. The platform enables internal and eventually external customers to build data processing workflows.
The goal is to automatically process millions of documents, news articles, and websites every day by leveraging the latest technology for workflow orchestrations and AI data processing.
Role Overview
You will join BlackRock’s Private Markets Data Engineering organisation, leading the development of the Hyperion platform.
You will lead the team that designs, builds, and operates a scalable, production-grade platform in close alignment with other leaders of the project as well as leaders of other areas of BlackRock.
Key Responsibilities
Own senior technical leadership and architectural direction for the nascent Hyperion platform, i.e., making strategic trade-offs, solve complex challenges, and adopt innovative technologies, in close collaboration with other leaders.
Enhance our culture, centred around empowering each team member to innovate and instilling a strong sense of ownership.
Collaborate with leaders of BlackRock Aladdin to define the strategic direction and priorities of the project.
Lead, coach, and develop engineers, combining hands-on technical contribution with people management.
Own the end-to-end delivery of this complex, business critical platform, from design through sustained production operation, with accountability for outcomes, reliability, and trust.
Build strong relationships with other internal platform teams, to co-design the overall architecture and partner towards a common goal.
Design the platform in a way that enables early adopters while driving towards a self-service approach for developers and non-technical users.
Required Experience
Demonstrated experience (10+ years) designing and launching enterprise scale, production grade platforms, with a strong track record of reliability, performance, and stakeholder trust in business-critical environments.
Proven ability to exercise senior technical judgement, making architectural and prioritisation trade-offs across complex data ecosystems, including scalability, cost, governance, and long-term sustainability considerations.
Advanced expertise distributed systems and workflow orchestration.
Proficiency in Python for building and operating data pipelines, orchestration, and automation, supported by solid software engineering fundamentals (version control, testing, CI/CD).
Advanced expertise with modern platform infrastructure and enablement practices, including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and related cloud-native technologies.
Experience leading, mentoring, and developing engineers while building a strong team culture with a strong sense of ownership and proactive innovation.
Desirable Experience
Exposure to AI enabled capabilities for processing of unstructured data.
Experience in financial markets.
Who You Are
You operate with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, taking responsibility for complex, business critical data platforms and driving initiatives through to sustained production impact.
You continuously strive to improve culture beyond your team.
You apply rigorous, analytical thinking to ambiguous problems, using evidence, engineering judgement, and structured decision-making to deliver scalable, well governed solutions.
You set a high bar for engineering excellence, embedding best practices in security, code quality, documentation, testing, and operational resilience.
You collaborate effectively across disciplines, building trusted partnerships with product, analytics, and business stakeholders.
You lead through influence and example, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high performing engineering culture.
You demonstrate a growth mindset and continuous improvement orientation, embracing change and challenging established ways of working to deliver better outcomes at scale.
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.
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.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
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
- 10+ years designing and launching enterprise scale platforms
- Proficiency in Python for building and operating data pipelines
- Advanced expertise in distributed systems and workflow orchestration
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Experience leading and mentoring engineers
BlackRock Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The U.S. plan combines a 50% match on the first 8% of eligible pay you contribute with an additional 3–5% company retirement contribution, alongside an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. This structure is positioned as stronger than many large employers and stands out for long‑term savings in finance.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes at least 16 weeks at 100% for primary caregivers (and 4 weeks for non‑primary), with bereavement and miscarriage/stillbirth leave plus a flexible return‑to‑work transition. Family‑forming and caregiving resources include adoption support, fertility benefits, and back‑up child and elder care in some locations.
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Healthcare Strength — Offerings include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, telemedicine, wellness incentives, gym discounts, EAP counseling, and free access to Calm. Some offices also provide onsite health services.
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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