Vice President, Core Risk Governance – Technology & Risk

Managing risk is central to BlackRock's investment process. The Vice President, Core Risk Governance – Technology & Risk, will be the senior Core Risk Management leader based in Mumbai and a key member of the Core Risk Governance team.

This is a highly visible leadership role combining people management, technical delivery, risk expertise, and location build-out. The successful candidate will establish and lead the initial Mumbai team, create strong connectivity with the Gurgaon organization, and help build a cohesive, high-performing, and scalable multi-location operating model.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior Core Risk Management leader in Mumbai and establish a strong local presence aligned with the wider Gurgaon-based organization.
• Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team across technology, data, analytics, and risk-governance capabilities.
• Create an inclusive and connected team culture, ensuring strong collaboration, consistent standards, and effective knowledge sharing between Mumbai and Gurgaon.
• Support the phased development of the Mumbai location, including talent strategy, hiring, onboarding, capability building, workforce planning, and leadership development.
• Provide direct or matrix leadership to Mumbai-based analysts, associates, interns, and future hires, ensuring clear accountability and effective integration into their respective Core Risk Management teams.
• Help shape the Core Risk Governance technology, data, automation, and AI roadmap, translating business and risk priorities into scalable solutions.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of technology and analytics initiatives from problem definition and solution design through testing, implementation, adoption, and production support.
• Provide strong technical leadership across Python, SQL, data engineering, cloud and enterprise data platforms, automation, analytics, application development, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Remain sufficiently hands-on to review solution architecture, challenge technical approaches, resolve complex delivery issues, and raise engineering and analytical standards.
• Partner with Risk, Investment, Data, Technology, Compliance, and Control teams to understand business requirements and deliver practical, controlled, and sustainable outcomes.
• Apply risk-management expertise to the development of reporting, analytics, controls, monitoring, and governance solutions that support investment-risk oversight and senior decision-making.
• Establish disciplined delivery standards covering software and product development lifecycles, testing, documentation, code quality, access management, issue tracking, release governance, and operational resilience.
• Build robust data-quality checks, monitoring, exception management, reconciliation, lineage, metadata, and escalation processes for risk analytics and AI-enabled applications.
• Ensure solutions are accurate, transparent, explainable, secure, user-focused, and aligned with relevant risk, data, technology, privacy, and control expectations.
• Assess emerging technologies and AI capabilities, balancing innovation and speed with reliability, safety, governance, and appropriate human oversight.
• Communicate priorities, risks, delivery progress, and key decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership forums.
• Act as a role model for ownership, collaboration, sound judgment, technical excellence, and talent development.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline.
• More than 10 years of relevant experience across technology, data, analytics, risk management, investment management, or financial services.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams for at least 5 years, including people management, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and building leadership depth.
• Proven ability to establish or significantly scale a team, capability, or location while maintaining strong connectivity with a broader global or multi-location organization.
• Strong hands-on technical capability in Python, SQL, data engineering, cloud platforms, enterprise data solutions, automation, analytics, or application development.
• Experience designing and delivering complex technology, data, analytics, or AI-enabled solutions in a controlled production environment.
• Strong understanding of modern solution architecture, data pipelines, system integration, secure development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Meaningful experience in risk management, investment management, portfolio analytics, regulatory reporting, governance, controls, or a closely related financial-services discipline.
• Ability to connect technical design with risk context, business outcomes, user needs, and control requirements.
• Proven experience translating complex business and risk requirements into clear technical strategy, delivery priorities, and executable plans.
• Strong understanding of data governance, including ownership, data quality, lineage, reconciliation, metadata, access controls, and audit-ready documentation.
• Experience with artificial intelligence, large language models, agentic workflows, search, document intelligence, workflow automation, or AI governance is highly desirable.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders, challenge constructively, navigate ambiguity, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex risk and technology topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

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.