Description
The Director will lead the BIS Data & Analytics team, managing three engineers based in New York. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering global, data-centric stewardship capabilities including research and reporting, which will complement the qualitative company-specific research conducted by BIS engagement and voting analysts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Enable the stewardship platform, spanning research, voting and client reporting
- Leverage expertise in automation to improve analyst efficiency and controls
- Support voting and engagement client reporting by designing and maintaining a code stack utilizing BlackRock’s applications and tools
- Partner with other analytical and technology functions across BlackRock to build, maintain and improve technological solutions
- Ensure integrity of the BIS data environment and oversee the quality control of BIS proprietary datasets
- Direct team of data analysts in appropriate design and use of data tools and reports
The ideal candidate will have:
- 8-12 years of experience in data engineering
- Recent experience in evaluating and deploying modern AI techniques
- Undergraduate degree is required, and an advanced degree (Masters) is a plus within a technical field (Computer Science, Statistics)
- Demonstrated experience with building research and analytics platforms
- Expert-level proficiency required in relational modeling and complex query optimization
- Experience in AI including orchestration and building workflows, UI/UX, and building RAG-based systems
- Design robust schemas and ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest corporate filings, global news, and financial data
- Ability to integrate cutting-edge AI into BIS workflow
- Demonstrated experience using Python or C# to automate workflows and solve engineering hurdles
- Significant experience with Snowflake (specifically Lake House implementations)
- Effective communication skills and collaborative working style