# Senior Leader, SMA Platform Strategy and Architecture

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $215,000.00 - $275,000.00 per year, $195,000.00 - $245,000.00 per year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

We are seeking a highly experienced, senior leader with deep expertise in the Wealth Management space to lead the organization towards the next generation of BlackRock’s SMA platform.

**Job Summary:** The successful candidate will play a critical role in modernizing and scaling SMA capabilities across portfolio management, trading, and operations. The role combines platform strategy and architecture, cross-functional program leadership, and operating model design and process transformation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Define and evolve the end-to-end SMA platform’s business architecture across portfolio management, trading, compliance, and operations workflows.

- Identify integration points across the SMA platform, and dependent systems.

- Ensure platform design supports scale, resiliency, and operational efficiency.

- Translate SMA business strategy into clear product roadmaps, architectural blueprints, and delivery plans.

- Lead alignment across product, engineering, operations, data, and risk teams.

- Drive program-level execution, including planning, prioritization, and dependency management.

- Design and implement scalable workflows across the investment lifecycle.

- Introduce standards, playbooks, and governance for execution at scale.

- Drive adoption of new platform capabilities across portfolio managers, traders, and operations teams.

- Identify opportunities to improve automation, data quality, and workflow efficiency.

**Qualifications:**

- 10-15+ years in investment management, leading cross-functional programs at scale.

- Strong knowledge of an existing SMA investment platform.

- Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale, cross-functional initiatives.

- Ability to translate business vision into architecture strategy, roadmaps, and structured objectives.

- Strong commercial intuition.

- Mastery of agile approach to SDLC.

- Executive presence with excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

**Salary Range:** For San Francisco, CA: $215,000.00 - $275,000.00 per year For Princeton, NJ: $195,000.00 - $245,000.00 per year

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Leave benefits

- Retirement benefits

- Tuition reimbursement

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

## Skills

### Required
- investment management
- SMA technology
- platform strategy
- architecture
- cross-functional leadership
- agile approach to SDLC

### Nice to have
- AI tools
- machine learning

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