# Data Engineer, Aladdin Data, Associate

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: Mumbai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our Alternative Data Pipeline Engineering team, which supports Aladdin, BlackRock's investment management and technology platform.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and support enterprise data pipelines and data platforms that enable scalable processing of structured and semi-structured data.

Your responsibilities:

- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade data pipelines and reusable ingestion and transformation components for structured and semi-structured data.

- Develop scalable data models and extract, load, and transform (ELT) transformations, using advanced SQL to support complex workloads while optimizing performance, scalability, and cost.

- Develop and operate reliable directed acyclic graph-based workflow orchestration frameworks for data and batch processing while implementing automated data-quality checks, reconciliation, lineage, alerting, monitoring, and failure handling.

- Build modular, maintainable, well-tested solutions and improve engineering productivity through reusable frameworks, automation, and responsibly governed artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted development.

- Partner with product teams, data specialists, and consumers to translate requirements into dependable solutions, taking end-to-end ownership and communicating progress, risks, and issues.

- Diagnose production issues and improve reliability, observability, and resilience while contributing to modernization and migration of existing data pipelines to BlackRock's enterprise data platform.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience, with at least 4 years of hands-on experience building and supporting enterprise data pipelines, platforms, or data-intensive applications.

- Strong Python development skills with experience in modular design, error handling, logging, automated testing, Git-based development, peer review, and continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.

- Advanced SQL and strong hands-on Snowflake experience, including complex transformations, schema design, semi-structured data, ELT patterns, query troubleshooting, and performance and cost optimization.

- Practical experience developing and troubleshooting data workflows, combined with a strong understanding of data warehousing and modeling concepts, including dimensional and historical data design.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to diagnose complex data and production issues and take ownership in an agile, globally distributed environment.

- Experience with large-scale distributed data analytics engines and exposure to modern transformation, application programming interface (API), data-format, distributed event streaming and messaging, and Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technologies.

Benefits:

- A strong retirement plan

- Tuition reimbursement

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Support for working parents

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Snowflake
- data engineering
- data warehousing
- data modeling

### Nice to have
- Azure
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- data analytics
- artificial intelligence

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