BlackRock is a global leader in investment management, risk management, and advisory services for institutional and retail clients. We help clients achieve their goals and overcome challenges with a range of products, including separate accounts, mutual funds, iShares® (exchange-traded funds), and other pooled investment vehicles. We also offer risk management, advisory, and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through BlackRock Solutions®. Headquartered in New York City, as of February 5, 2025, we handle approximately $11.5 trillion in assets under management (AUM) and have around 19,000 employees in offices across 38 countries, with a significant presence in key global markets, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa. Aladdin Data: The Aladdin Data team maintains a pioneering data platform that delivers high-quality data to users, including investors, operations staff, data scientists, and engineers. Our aim is to provide consistent, high-quality data while evolving our platform to support the firms growth. We build high-performance data pipelines, enable data discovery and consumption, and continually enhance our data storage capabilities. We are looking for a SRE lead for Aladdin Data to architect, build and maintain resilient high scale systems - leveraging your engineering and rigorous problem-solving skills to address interesting and complex problems. You are an ambitious, engineer that can direct a global tight knit engineering team, acting as a collaborative influencer to drive technical solutions and to be able to communicate those ideas to senior leaders. This is a hands-on role where you will be actively leading the implementation of engineering initiatives Role Responsibilities • Take ownership of project priorities, deadlines and deliverables using Agile methodologies • Understand and refine business and functional requirements. • Significantly contribute to the resiliency of the Aladdin Data platform. • Hands on approach to getting work done, this will be a role that requires a “roll your sleeves” up mentality • Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating others. • Drive priority setting of the engineering team • Improve Engineering culture by encouraging continuous focus on reliability across the entire application lifecycle • Proactive participant in architectural and design decisions • Design and implement end-to-end monitoring solutions for Application and Infrastructure components, based on cutting edge SLO-based telemetry tools • Drive the engineering of capacity management and demand forecasting solutions • Act as a culture carrier and leader, passing on SRE knowledge and best practices to the engineering team • Drive detailed root cause investigations for production incidents with rigorous focus on issue avoidance • Create/coordinate retros for significant incidents • Additional core engineering functions, such as adding custom Telemetry metrics to the code base of in-scope Applications • Anticipate new opportunities to continuously evolve the resiliency profile of scoped Applications and Infrastructure Skills/Qualifications Must Have • B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline with 5 – 8 years of experience • Experience leading high performing customer success teams, and a track record of driving continuous improvement • Experience with troubleshooting performance issues • A passion for providing engineering support for highly available, performant full stack applications with a “Student of Technology” attitude • Experience with relational database and NoSQL Database (e.g. Redis, Apache Cassandra) • Exposure to cloud ecosystems such as AWS or Azure • Experience with CI/CD practices • Passion to work in a team-environment, multi-tasking and effective communication skills • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills • Demonstrated ability to build positive relationships • Self-motivated • Knowledge of software development methodologies (analysis, design, development, testing) and basic understanding of Agile / Scrum methodology and practices • Good hands-on object-oriented programming experience in Java, including proficiency in object-oriented principles and design patterns Good to Have • Passionate about data platforms, data quality and everything data • Understanding of Agile work environments, including knowledge of GIT, CI/CD, and one scripting language like Perl, Python etc. • Experience with automated configuration management tools 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.