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BlackRock Vice President - Data Stewardship in Gurgaon, India
About this role
At Aladdin Data, we are at the forefront of enterprise data and analytics for BlackRock and its Aladdin clients. Our mission is to develop and operate cutting-edge platforms that produce, distribute, and govern enterprise data and analytics. Our goal is to create 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 member of the Aladdin Data team, you will play a key role in defining and ensuring data principles and standards, implementing tools and technology to facilitate data evaluation and validation, managing data product strategy and roadmap, and engaging with stakeholders across all Data Products. Join us in our mission to drive business success through data-driven solutions and make a significant impact on our data-driven initiatives.
As an Aladdin Data Steward Vice President, you will play a key role in defining data product strategy and roadmap, and engaging stakeholders across all Data Products. You will manage the product ideation, build process, gather requirements, design, solution, refine and work with engineers to develop and deliver on expected outcomes for personas. You will ensure development effort is aligned to the strategic roadmap of your product and communicate the product strategy, articulating the business benefits of all the work we do, and generate engagement and excitement around our plans.
Responsibilities:
Define and ensure that data principles and standards are met and that data capabilities are effectively utilized across all data phases.
Manage data throughout its lifecycle from acquisition to consumption to drive data integrity, consistency, better decision making, reporting, and analysis.
Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into data-specific specifications, including owning the design of the data model (conceptual, logical, standard).
Apply data quality controls as upstream as possible and influence vendors to provide strategic coverage of their data products.
Hold data providers (vendors/internal) accountable for upstream data quality.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement data-driven solutions that support business objectives.
Own the intake of Reference Data ideas, assessing ideas within the defined SLAs.
Gather requirements and define user stories and acceptance criteria through collaboration with Engineering, in line with Agile best-practices.
Manage the product backlog, ensuring it hits KPI targets.
Work with stakeholders, including Data Stewards and the Program team, to understand business priorities and correctly sequence development.
Act as an escalation point for senior stakeholders, ensuring Data Product Delivery is visible, accessible, and able to respond to shifting business needs.
Qualifications:
10+ years of experience in financial services with exposure to business, middle office, or operations functions.
Solid understanding of asset and risk management and financial instrument modelling across a reasonable subset of fixed income, equities, derivatives, and alternatives.
Ability to flexibly balance priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Strong financial and quantitative abilities with attention to detail.
Knowledge of data modelling and ETL techniques a plus.
Exposure to agile methodology, data management, or service management, a plus.
Exposure to asset management systems, preferably Aladdin, a plus.
Strong understanding of financial instruments.
Excellent leadership skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
Proficiency in data mining and data architecture principles.
Proficiency in Python.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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.
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.
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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.