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Director – Analytics Production Readiness & Assurance (APRA)
Analytics Production Delivery | Aladdin Data
Role Brief
Analytics Production Delivery within Aladdin Data is responsible for delivering analytics through production processes that are standard-based, explainable, and resilient to change. Analytics Production Readiness & Assurance (APRA) ensures that analytics, configurations, and production transitions meet defined production standards, and that deviations and tradeoffs are surfaced explicitly and handled through consistent decision processes.
As a Director, you will define, establish, and lead the APRA function as a durable operating capability. You will partner with Analytics Stewards, Product teams, upstream modelers, and production delivery leaders to drive consistent adoption of production standards, readiness criteria, and posture transparency. You will bring strong technical depth in configuration and metadata data modeling, market and risk analytics domain understanding, and AI/automation fluency to scale oversight through deterministic classification, metrics, and intelligent analysis.
This role requires the ability to operate with general direction and minimal oversight, lead major initiatives, and drive sustained impact through influence and collaboration across teams.
Key Responsibilities
Establish and lead the APRA function within Analytics Production Delivery
Define the APRA operating model and roadmap: what “production readiness” means, how it is measured, and how assurance is applied consistently across analytics domains.
Lead major cross-functional initiatives to embed readiness and assurance into analytics production delivery workflows, ensuring adoption without unnecessary process friction.
Partner to drive production standards and accountability across upstream and downstream teams
Partner with Analytics Stewards and Product to translate domain standards into implementable readiness criteria and measurable posture signals, ensuring standards are practical and observable in production.
Hold upstream modelers and delivery stakeholders accountable to deliver models and implementations to agreed production standards by driving clarity, surfacing gaps, and ensuring ownership is explicit.
Own the technical framework for standards representation and posture visibility
Define and evolve the configuration/metadata data model required to represent: production standards, permissible variables, certification posture, configuration alignment, and transition state in machine-readable terms.
Establish deterministic methods for comparing deployed configurations against approved standards and for surfacing deviations objectively and repeatably.
Build scalable oversight, metrics, and automation (AI/tech fluent)
Design and operationalize the core APRA metrics and reporting (posture, deviations, performance signals, decision states), producing executive-ready insights that inform prioritization and risk decisions.
Lead adoption of automation and AI-enabled analysis to scale oversight (classification support, anomaly surfacing, trend detection, change summarization), reducing manual effort and improving consistency of decision inputs.
Ensure explicit decision-making and institutional memory
Ensure readiness gaps, deviations from standard, and performance tradeoffs are framed with evidence and brought into the appropriate forums for explicit decisions and clear accountability.
Establish decision capture practices so acceptance/remediation outcomes, rationale, and revisit criteria are traceable and reusable over time.
Lead and develop a small technical team
Manage and develop junior technical associates/analysts; set direction, coach technical rigor, and establish reusable analysis/tooling patterns to scale APRA outcomes.
Create a high-leverage operating rhythm where oversight scales through systems and automation rather than reliance on heroics.
Qualifications / Requirements
Required
10+ years of experience across analytics production, analytics platforms, data engineering, or related technical domains, with a track record of leading major initiatives and delivering sustained outcomes in complex environments.
Demonstrated ability to operate with general direction and minimal oversight, providing guidance and recommendations based on deep specialist knowledge.
Strong experience partnering across Product, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations, using influence to drive alignment, accountability, and consistent adoption of standards.
Strong familiarity with market and risk analytics across financial markets (e.g., pricing, risk, portfolio analytics, model-driven outputs) and the production realities of delivering those analytics to clients.
Deep technical fluency in data modeling, configuration frameworks, and metadata, with hands-on capability using SQL and Python to validate data, build metrics, and produce decision-ready insights.
Demonstrated ability to translate abstract standards into concrete technical specifications (schemas, validation rules, posture logic, metrics definitions) that can be implemented and operated at scale.
Track record of developing people and creating scalable operating practices that increase reach and impact across teams.
Preferred / Plus
Experience managing or designing technical frameworks supporting internal or industry analytics engines (e.g., model integration standards, parameter frameworks, configuration registries, certification/readiness pipelines).
Experience applying AI-enabled analytics or automation techniques to operational oversight, anomaly detection, or decision support at scale.
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 committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.
BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience across analytics production, analytics platforms, data engineering, or related technical domains
- Strong experience partnering across Product, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations
- Strong familiarity with market and risk analytics across financial markets
- Deep technical fluency in data modeling, configuration frameworks, and metadata
- Demonstrated ability to translate abstract standards into concrete technical specifications
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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