Data Platform Architect Architecture Aladdin Data
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, operating the IBIT bitcoin ETF and the BUIDL tokenized fund.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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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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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define architectural direction for enterprise data platforms, APIs, shared services, metadata, configuration, and data models. You will shape AI and unstructured-data capabilities, guide implementations, establish engineering standards, build reusable platform tooling, resolve systemic issues, and mentor engineers and architects.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in data platform architecture data engineering distributed systems or related disciplines
- Experience designing governed platforms for AI and unstructured-data workloads
- Experience with object storage document management metadata retrieval vector or graph technologies security and reliability
- Experience designing high-performance data services and APIs
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems and integration patterns
- Technical fluency in data modeling SQL Python or Java automated testing and CI/CD
- Experience with streaming event-driven architectures and data processing engines
- Architecture leadership across workflow orchestration DataOps release management observability cloud infrastructure and delivery platforms
- Ability to influence stakeholders and communicate complex concepts clearly
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry
Responsibilities
- Define target-state architecture for Aladdin Data platforms and shared services
- Shape platform capabilities for AI and agent-based applications
- Partner with engineering product and operations teams through implementation and rollout
- Drive improvements in availability throughput latency scalability and productivity
- Define reference architectures engineering patterns and technical guardrails
- Establish reusable libraries templates APIs automation and self-service patterns
- Mentor engineers and architects and lead cross-platform initiatives
Benefits
- Retirement savings plans
- Tuition reimbursement
- Healthcare plans
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Health Ambassadors
- Flexible Time Off
- Parental leave