Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining, designing, and optimizing complex data solutions for BlackRock's Fundamental Equity team.
• Make enhancements that improve team’s data architecture, making it better and easier to maintain (e.g., data auditing solutions, automating ad-hoc or manual operation steps)
• Actively document code and log scheduled processes.
• Own the data quality of key datasets and any new changes/enhancements.
• Support quantitative research processes including optimization and stock screening.
• As a problem solver, seek out opportunities and propose solutions to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and be judicious about introducing dependencies.

Qualifications:

• Around 4-6 years of work experience, preferably with high-reliability analytical processes within financial services
• Experience building data ingestion and transformation pipelines (ETL) and be able to design processes to extract and optimize data efficiently.
• Experience with complex queries to read, write, and optimize on large relational databases.
• Capable of defining own design and test scenarios
• Knowledgeable about data mining, data analytics, data modeling

Skills and Experience:

• High proficiency in Python and SQL with ability to make efficient design choices.
• Solid foundational understanding of statistical analysis; SAS proficiency is a plus.
• Familiarity with Copilot tools is a plus.
• Able to explain complex technical concepts in plain language to nontechnical audience.
• Highly motivated & determined with the ability to work independently and self-learn.
• Superb attention to detail & passion for data, preferably financial market data
• Work closely with a small team as well as more broadly within an organization where information-sharing is critical to the success of all teams across asset classes.

Educational Qualifications:

• Computer Science degree/STEM background from a reputed university

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.