Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer within Aladdin Data at BlackRock, you will build scalable data solutions and develop strong data models that connect technology with business context.

You will work across the data lifecycle, from pipeline development and modeling through performance optimization and production, while taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and translating business concepts into effective data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Design data models across structured, unstructured, and graph data.
• Organize data into well-defined business domains and connect them into a broader enterprise ontology.
• Understand business processes through data and translate business concepts into well-designed data solutions.
• Improve the performance, scalability, and efficiency of data workloads.
• Independently investigate problems and own solutions from design through production.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on knowledge of Snowflake, including performance, warehouse utilization, cost optimization, and capabilities such as Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, Dynamic Tables, and Cortex services.
• Experience building data solutions using Structured Query Language (SQL), dbt, and Python/Snowpark.
• Experience building and operating data orchestration pipelines using directed acyclic graph-based workflow orchestration frameworks for data and batch processing, Prefect, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, including entities, relationships, domains, and semantic models; familiarity with graph databases, knowledge graphs, and ontologies is beneficial.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through ambiguity independently and understand the business context represented by the data.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and exposure to data platforms supporting artificial intelligence, search, or retrieval-based applications is beneficial.

Benefits BlackRock offers a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off (FTO).

Hybrid Work Model BlackRock's hybrid work model requires employees to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.