# Vice President – Lead Platform Engineer

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD$162,000.00 - USD$215,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

The Vice President – Lead Platform Engineer will drive the strategy, architecture, and delivery of next-generation engineering capabilities on Aladdin.

This role is responsible for building scalable, governed, and event-driven data ecosystems that power investment, analytics, and reporting platforms with high-quality, near real-time data.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Define and execute the data platform engineering strategy around event-driven systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

- Lead development of event-driven architectures leveraging streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka) and modern processing frameworks.

- Establish robust data governance, quality, lineage, and observability practices across the platform.

- Partner with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with business and investment use cases.

- Promote engineering excellence through CI/CD, automation, and standardized development practices.

**Leadership & Impact**

- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and direction to high-performing engineering teams.

- Influence enterprise architecture and platform strategy decisions.

- Drive adoption of scalable, reusable, and standardized solutions across the organization.

- Ensure alignment between platform engineering initiatives and business outcomes, particularly in financial services and investment domains.

**Qualifications**

- Extensive experience in platform engineering, distributed systems, and modern event-driven solutions (e.g., Kafka).

- Strong expertise in programming (Python, Java, or Scala).

- Proven track record of building and scaling production-grade platforms.

- Experience with streaming and event-driven architecture.

- Prior experience in financial services or asset management preferred.

**Benefits**

- Salary range: USD$162,000.00 - USD$215,000.00

- Annual discretionary bonus

- Healthcare

- Leave benefits

- Retirement benefits

- Tuition reimbursement

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

## Skills

### Required
- platform engineering
- distributed systems
- event-driven solutions
- Kafka
- Python
- Java
- Scala

### Nice to have
- financial services
- asset management

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