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Senior Director of Developer Platform and Engineering Excellence - Job Description

Business Overview:

BlackRock helps investors build better financial futures. As a fiduciary to our clients, we provide the investment and technology solutions they need when planning for their most important goals. At the heart of technology at BlackRock, is Aladdin Engineering (AE), the team responsible for designing, building, and operating Aladdin, BlackRock's investment and operating technology platform. Being a member of Aladdin Engineering means working with the industry's thought leaders to build and power innovative and next generation investment technology products that shape the financial markets. We are 3,500 strong and we eat, live and breathe tech. We partner with our end users to deeply understand their business strategy and build technology to help them get there. We think big about new opportunities and ways technology can change the financial services ecosystem.

• Design, transform and lead the Engineering Excellence organization, which is responsible for providing a developer platform that enables engineers to deliver high-quality, operable software rapidly, efficiently, and predictably to production.

• Provide strategic leadership to build a high-performance engineering team. You will grow technology leaders and connect the team to AE's mission and outcomes. You will nurture engineering culture and ultimately drive execution.

• Work in partnership with our product managers, users/client base and engineering teams to implement a product and technical roadmap.

• Be an inspiring leader across the entire engineering organization to evangelize leading engineering practices, productivity and tooling

• Become a guide in the BlackRock user/provider model and develop deep technical expertise of the Aladdin platform; provide engineering best practices leadership across BlackRock

• Sample "Missions" you may take on in this role:

• Lead an effort to move the entire firm to continuous integration

• Lead an effort to bake cloud-native attributes into all the firm's apps

• Establish unified SDLC for the firm's official software languages

• Lead the firm's usage of AI for code generation and SDLC

• Revamp the firm's agile strategy and ways of measuring productivity

• Integrate industry developer portals or tooling with homegrown change and release management systems

• You are passionate about modern engineering best practices, efficiency, and productivity and see it as your mission to advocate for a strong, productive engineering culture.

• You are obsessed with using metrics to measure the impact and outcomes for your organization and stakeholders - "what gets measured gets managed."

• You understand the mindset of developers and are relentlessly driven to improve the developer experience.

• You know how to influence decision-making - at all levels and across contexts - within the organization.

• You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and getting into the details when vital, and you persevere where others do not.

• Excited to mentor engineers and driving towards engineering and business deliveries precision.

• You believe diversity crafts driven advantage through insights, team cohesion, personal dedication, and interpersonal culture.

• 10+ years of combined enterprise leadership and technical experience in Financial Services or Technology running a globally diverse engineering team.

• Deep technical knowledge across multiple languages of engineering best practices and productivity management (Java/JS and Python are essential)

• Able to navigate a wide organization and command respect from Managing Directors who need to be guided through expansive transformations in how they work

• Experience building cost-effective infrastructure at scale, including applied knowledge of cloud-native architecture

• Proven track record of accomplishment and successful navigation in large, complex organizations, specifically, successful deliveries of technology focused products through the entire product development lifecycle

• Superb engineering leadership experience across complex/cross functional initiatives - the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple tasks, adapt to change and work well under pressure and tight deadlines.

• Excellent analytical and technical skills, with working knowledge of cutting-edge engineering applications, software development methodologies and product technologies

• Strong intellectual ability and stakeholder management skills, evidenced by being able to establish his/her credibility and influence with senior leaders throughout the firm.

• Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic business environment and continually reprioritize to focus on the key issues/topics.

• Outstanding interpersonal characteristics, reputation, and team orientation, which will enable her/him to earn confidence, loyalty, and respect of colleagues

• AI domain knowledge is a nice-to-have