About this role
About the Role:
The Aladdin Engineering team is responsible for designing, building, and operating Aladdin, BlackRock’s investment, and operating technology platform. Within the Engineering COO office, the Strategic Initiatives role will be responsible for managing cross-functional initiatives that align with the firm’s technology strategy, improving operational effectiveness, and supporting the transformation in how Product Engineering partners with Platform and Data Engineering teams to deliver world class products. This is a highly visible role that requires strong problem-solving, stakeholder management, and execution capabilities. This role will provide immense exposure to enterprise processes and stakeholders across the world’s largest asset management firm.
The hire must be a passionate, hardworking, and self-motivated go-getter with a unique blend of people, program ownership, and business skills. This will require at least some prior experience in a project / program management, business operations, or strategy role.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Initiatives Oversight:
- Lead the planning and execution of essential engineering programs, ranging from strategic client commitments to resolving legacy technology debt.
- Partner with the Engineering Leadership team to define and track priorities, goals, and success metrics.
- Capture requirements, connect them to business value, and translate them into easily understood reporting and actionable plans.
- Collaborate with internal partners throughout the entire lifecycle of each initiative (HR, Finance, Vendor Management, Technology Partners)
- Develop clear roadmaps, implementation plans, and governance frameworks
Operational Excellence:
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, optimize resource allocation, and enhance productivity across engineering programs
- Lead analyses to support data-driven decisions on operating model changes
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Build strong relationships across Aladdin Engineering and partner teams.
- Prepare leadership updates, presentation materials, and internal communications that articulate program objectives, status, and impact.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and an advocate for Aladdin Product Engineering COO principles and mandates
Required Qualifications:
Experience:
- 6+ years of experience in program management, strategy, or business operations within financial services or a complex technology organization
- Prior experience working with engineering, infrastructure, or technology transformation programs strongly preferred.
Skills:
- Possesses strong strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to organize teams under pressure, engage key decision makers to prioritize issues, and effectively communicate with senior leaders
- Excellent communication and executive level presentation abilities.
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate across senior leadership teams.
- Advanced PowerPoint and Writing Skills: Ability to produce quality presentations and synthesize key information using data and analytics.
- Interpersonal Skills: Ability to engage a diverse set of stakeholders, build long term relationships, and create a collaborative and approachable environment, especially when working across departments or on time sensitive matters.
- Self-Starter: High level of self-motivation, able to own and drive things forward, gathering feedback and identifying ways to do things better along the way.
- Advanced Excel Skills: Significant hands-on Excel and data management experience. Ability to track and manipulate datasets using disparate data sources, and the ability to design dynamic tooling that solves problems. Able to tell a compelling story by leveraging data, metrics, and visualizations.
- Familiarity with modern engineering practices.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or advanced degree preferred.
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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