# Director - Engineering Lead

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: Edinburgh
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $250,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

Are you interested in building innovative technology that shapes the financial markets? At BlackRock, we are looking for a Director of Engineering (Principal Engineer) who loves to innovate and tackle complex problems. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial well-being.

Being an engineering lead at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds; working for one of the most sophisticated financial technology companies and being part of a software development team responsible for next-generation technology and solutions.

As the Engineering Lead, you will:

- Get stuff done. You'll use your seasoned judgement to independently identify, own, and deliver solutions in a complex multi-stakeholder operating environment.

- Build the emerging SDLCs from scratch. The Rust, Golang, and JavaScript SDLCs are greenfield. You'll design these from the ground up, making foundational architectural choices that will endure for years and set the standard for how these languages are built, tested, and deployed across BlackRock.

- Improve the SDLC build system. Platform provides a standardized build environment that reduces duplicative work and meets our compliance obligations. You'll drive a simplification and modernization effort.

- Shape technical strategy. You'll have the authority to make opinionated decisions about architecture, tooling, and standards for your ownership areas.

- Grow yourself. You'll continuously expand your technical knowledge and leadership to make us one of the most productive teams at BlackRock.

- Grow the team. We're already a great team with a healthy mix of experience levels; you'll make us better and faster by raising both the technical and cultural bar.

- Grow the org. Impact at BlackRock's scale means collaboration, and you'll deliver in partnership with other teams.

What you'll need:

- Deep experience. 10+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years in a technical lead role.

- Systems expertise. Proven track record designing, developing, and deploying scalable and resilient systems.

- Adaptability to new tech stacks. Your initial scope is Rust, Golang, JavaScript, and the build infrastructure, but you'll evolve and lead new languages as they're adopted by the firm.

- Build systems and CI/CD pipelines. You'll own a standardized platform that reduces duplicative work and meets compliance obligations.

- Strategic alignment. Experience setting goals that align with your customers' needs and the broader BlackRock technology roadmap.

Who you are:

- Customer-obsessed. You know your customers and their pain points and work backwards from these to determine what needs to be built.

- A trusted technical lead and collaboration partner. Your team know they can depend on you; your partners know you'll support them, and your customers know you'll deliver on time.

- Autonomous with a bias for action. You're happy figuring out what needs to be done and ensuring it aligns with the needs of your customers and the broader technical strategy.

- Hands-on and in the details. You won't deliver everything yourself, but you won't be shy about rolling up your sleeves.

- A clear, confident communicator. You explain complex topics with data and evidence, but with a simplicity that resonates with a broad audience of engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- Golang
- JavaScript
- SDLC
- CI/CD pipelines
- Technical lead
- System design
- Scalable systems
- Resilient systems