Associate Data Engineer Data Management Data Office

BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, operating the IBIT bitcoin ETF and the BUIDL tokenized fund.

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New York, NY, USA

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About BlackRock

BlackRock (blackrock.com) is the world’s largest asset manager, with production digital-asset businesses: the IBIT spot bitcoin ETF, the BUIDL tokenized money-market fund (with Securitize), and tokenization initiatives.

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About the Role

You will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and modern data platforms. You will develop batch and real-time ingestion processes, reusable engineering frameworks, and automation while ensuring data quality, security, governance, lineage, and observability. You will troubleshoot production issues, improve performance and resiliency, support CI/CD practices, and contribute to technical standards and documentation.

Requirements

  • Collaborative experience working across global, cross-functional teams and taking ownership of major data platform components.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, and Scala.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed data analytics engines, cloud data platforms, Snowflake, and SQL.
  • Experience integrating and transforming CSV, TSV, Microsoft Excel, and database API sources.
  • Typically 3–6 years of relevant software engineering, data engineering, or related technical experience.
  • 4+ years of Java, Python, or Scala programming experience, including UDFs, reusable modules, and automated testing with frameworks such as pytest.
  • 4+ years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines, architectures, and datasets.
  • Familiarity with DAG-based workflow orchestration frameworks, dbt, and distributed event streaming and messaging platforms.
  • 4+ years of experience developing production workloads with distributed data analytics engines, including resource allocation, performance tuning, and job optimization.
  • 4+ years of experience with SQL-based analytics layers, workload monitoring, bucketing, partitioning, tuning, and schema-based serialization formats.
  • 4+ years of experience with Transact-SQL, relational databases, non-relational databases, and GraphQL.
  • Strong experience implementing solutions on Snowflake.
  • Experience with data-quality and validation frameworks, particularly Great Expectations.
  • Strong understanding of Swagger and OpenAPI for RESTful API design, documentation, and testing.
  • Experience deploying and supporting solutions across cloud and hybrid environments using AWS, Azure, OpenStack, OCI containers, event streaming platforms, and container orchestration platforms.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps.
  • Experience with data governance, metadata management, data lineage, business glossaries, access controls, auditing, and centralized governance.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks notebooks, workflows, and machine learning integrations.
  • Exposure to machine learning, artificial intelligence, generative AI, or AI-ready data platform engineering patterns is beneficial.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for enterprise data products.
  • Build and optimize batch and real-time data ingestion, transformation, and publishing processes.
  • Develop reusable data engineering frameworks, components, and automation.
  • Ensure data products meet standards for quality, security, governance, lineage, and observability.
  • Separate and segregate data according to relevant policies.
  • Improve platform performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement sustainable solutions.
  • Contribute to engineering standards, code reviews, testing, CI/CD automation, and technical documentation.
  • Automate manual ingestion processes and optimize data delivery against service-level agreements.
  • Partner with infrastructure teams to improve scalability.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the data ecosystem.
  • Deliver high-quality engineering solutions while deepening expertise in modern data technologies.

Benefits

  • Retirement plan
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Comprehensive healthcare
  • Support for working parents
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Mental Health Ambassadors
  • Parental leave