Job Description

Description

About this role

As the senior technical lead , you will develop solutions and lead a team that works closely with BlackRocks Aladdin Product Management and Design team to build Aladdins Corporate Actions platform. Our primary objective is to ensure that systems are highly scalable to support ongoing business demands and client requirements. The Corporate Actions Product development team is responsible for delivering tools used by Portfolio Managers, Operations professionals at BlackRock and Aladdin Clients, when assets undergo Corporate Action Events. The highly automated system takes care of managing the entire life cycle of a corporate action event from sourcing of the events, computing the portfolio eligibility, manage the electronic communication with custodians, perform mathematical calculations to generate accurate trades and finally manage the electronic settlement with custodians. The team has a global footprint with team members in New York, San Franciso, and Gurgaon.

Key responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on technical development skills and also managing development teams that work on business facing transactional system.

Demonstrated the ability to manage people, make architectural decisions, understand business processes to deliver the cleanest solutions.

Share responsibility for architecture and implementing the firms product development vision.

Own responsibility for availability, scalability, performance and capacity from development through production for the corporate actions platform.

Reduce errors on deployments, improve reliability, and increase speed of implementation through automation

Continuously refine and improve our toolset to improve our data and persistence layers

Core Requirements:

8+ years of experience in IT including at least 4 years in design and architecture roles

Experience building multi-tier, scalable, fault tolerant web applications

Experience with platform integrations and designing service APIs

Extensive Service-Oriented Architecture patterns and design knowledge and familiarity with cloud based services

Expertise in working with complex cross-domain applications in a global organization across multiple time zones

Enjoys a fast paced, high-intensity and complex environment, troubleshooting time sensitive critical issues and working with people

Extensive experience with multi-tier transactional architecture and design

Extensive experience in enterprise software development in Java and web development stacks (Angular, NodeJS, HTML & CSS)

Experience with Sybase, Cassandra

Event / Stream processing technologies

Experience using Agile methodologies previous experience working from a backlog, sprints, retrospectives etc.

Passionate about test driven, clean code, automatically tested and continuous deployment

Line management experience

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong interpersonal skills with ability to present and convey ideas

Strong attention to detail; action-oriented attitude, and willingness to roll up sleeves

Curious to explore emerging technologies and learn new things

Use metrics to drive decision making

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering degree with relevant experience, Masters degree preferred.

Experience in the financial services industry is preferred

Leadership:

Coordinate and plan with your peers in other offices around the globe

Manage and lead complex projects

Communicate effectively to senior managers

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.

About BlackRock

BlackRock's purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable.



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