About this role
Our technology supports Portfolio Management teams overseeing over $14 trillion in assets, and the products you build will sit at the heart of tools used daily by investors making decisions that impact millions of people worldwide. It’s engineering work with real reach, real complexity, and real impact.
Aladdin Portfolio Management Engineering is a global team of passionate product engineers who are on a mission to build out a next generation platform of persona based, workflow driven experience with horizontally scalable & modular architecture.
Responsibilities:
Actively contributing to Technical Design Deployment Readiness Reviews, Core Reviews and the whole PDLC.
Accelerate productivity with an AI-enabled PDLC with a strong focus on quality & resiliency.
Provide operational excellence to our clients with production support with an “SRE” mindset.
Influence and mentor other engineers in the team, raising the bar on technical excellence.
Collaborate in a global, multi-office environment, aligning teams across geographies around shared architectural vision.
Champion a strong engineering culture grounded in continuous learning and optimizing to best practices such as DORA.
Build domain and technical context quickly and translate that into specifications, plans and actionable Agile backlogs.
Qualifications:
• B.E./B.Tech/MCA or equivalent degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• 8+ years of proven experience
Skills and Experience:
Proven experience operating as a Senior Engineer or Team Lead, defining and owning technical direction across initiatives with Agile Practices such as Lean or Scaled Agile.
A proven foundation in modern languages such Core Java and UI technologies such as React & Angular.
Demonstrated ability to act as a work definer at scale: shaping ambiguous problem spaces into well-structured initiatives, clear architectural runways, and executable delivery plans.
Strong background designing enterprise scale, distributed systems, balancing functional requirements with non-functional concerns such as resiliency, scalability, latency, and operability.
Hand-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 Windsurf & Cursor and GitHub Copilot
Ability to partner effectively with Product Management, Engineering, and Business leaders to translate strategic objectives into coherent architectural strategies.
Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to articulate complex architectural concepts to senior stakeholders and align diverse teams behind a shared technical vision.
Track record at articulating architectural tradeoffs and design options, including impacts on scalability, resilience, cost, and delivery velocity.
Strong architectural governance skills: setting standards, guiding design reviews, managing technical debt, and ensuring long term platform sustainability.
Experience of API design principles & Event Driven Architecture.
Rigorous approach to quality through demonstrable TDD & BDD experience.
Nice to have and opportunities to learn:
Expertise in Domain Driven Design (DDD), including domain modelling and aligning architecture to complex business domains.
Front office Portfolio Management or Wealth Management domain experience, with a strong understanding of investment workflows, decision making processes, and the role of technology in supporting portfolio managers and advisors.
Domain knowledge of asset classes & analytics (e.g., equities, fixed income, multi asset, alternatives) and how their characteristics influence risk, performance, liquidity, and system design.
Experience with portfolio construction concepts, including asset allocation, constraints, benchmarks, rebalancing, and optimization, and how these map to scalable platform and architecture decisions.
Exposure to event-driven architectures at scale, including microservices, messaging, and streaming platforms aligned to business domains.
Experience shaping or contributing to platform strategies that enable multiple product teams to move faster with consistency and autonomy.
Familiarity with cloud native and hybrid architectures, including patterns for scalability, resilience, and cost aware design in large enterprises – including frameworks like Kubernetes.
Exposure to modern DevOps and platform engineering practices that support high throughput, high quality delivery at enterprise scale, and demonstrable improvements across DORA metrics.
Familiarity with micro frontend architectures, including their use in large scale, multi team environments to enable independent domain ownership, parallel delivery, and consistent user experiences across complex platform
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.
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, 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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