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About this role

Aladdin Data is responsible for enterprise data and analytics for BlackRock and its Aladdin clients. We also develop and operate the platforms that produce, distribute, and govern enterprise data and analytics. Our goal is a largely automated, cloud-native platform that radically transforms our data and analytics supply chain, making it faster, easier, and cheaper to discover, access, and leverage data and analytics for asset management.

As a Senior Data Governance Advisor on the BlackRock Aladdin Data Governance Team, you will be responsible for working with our data modelers, stewardship & senior business partners in Aladdin’s investment and risk analytics data domain, driving critical data governance and data modernization efforts across BlackRock’s analytics data platform to ensure data is delivered with the highest standard of quality and scale. In addition, you will partner with other data stewardship groups and domain experts across BlackRock to enable data governance on critical data that is vital to our business and our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with analytics & modeling development teams and data stewardship teams to drive critical data governance initiatives on new and existing investment & risk models, ensuring model input and output data follows our data governance guidelines.

• Work to identify and resolve orphaned data pipelines for data critical to our investment & risk models.

• Help enable teams to utilize our data governance capabilities and processes, including our enterprise metadata catalog and data quality framework.

• Work closely with our data stewardship groups and users to stay abreast of new and evolving requirements to ensure alignment of our data governance capabilities.

• Chair data governance forums and working groups across different data categories, ensuring senior stakeholders and business partners are kept up to date on critical data governance initiatives.

• Work with data stewardship to utilize existing data governance dashboards, metrics and KPIs, providing details of data governance certification and compliance with data governance guidelines. Work with metric team to provide enhancement requirements to metrics when needed.

• Mentor and lead a team of 1-3 junior data governance advisors across multiple data categories.

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in data governance, data management, capital market, investments, or financial technology industry.

• Strong understand of data governance principles and standards, including metadata management, data quality, entitlements, lineage, data taxonomy.

• Track record of working with and organizing data within financial markets, investment and risk analytics, or other data management functions.

• Experience in leading cross-functional initiatives, with strong communication skills, project management abilities, and organizational skills.

• Experience in coordinating and chairing large meetings with multiple executive stakeholders, creating agendas, coordinating relevant presenters and providing succinct updates to senior management.

• Aladdin experiences from capital market, financial services firms, a plus.

• Experience working within Agile project management frameworks is a plus (including tooling such as Azure DevOps)

Qualifications:

• Degree in finance, computer science, engineering, mathematics, quantitative or related discipline. Bachelor’s degree is required. Advance degree preferred.

• Comfort with data analysis and basic understanding of technical tools such as SQL, Python, Jupyter Notebook, Unix commands, Hadoop, Spark SQL, Power BI, etc.

• Strong understanding of data governance principles and standards

• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and an ability to navigate complex data processes and organizations.

• Enthusiasm for, and comfort with, driving work independently in a high pressure and fast pace environment with entrepreneurial and team-oriented setting.

• Strong project management skills

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock (http://careers.blackrock.com/) | Twitter: @blackrock (https://twitter.com/blackrock) | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.