About This Role
Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
Location: 50 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001
The Digital Asset Lab is responsible for partnering with teams across the firm to define our Digital Asset strategy and Aladdin roadmap and drive the execution of our most important commercial initiatives.
Job Duties
Responsibilities include:
- Defining the execution strategy for Digital Asset initiatives like tokenization.
- Evaluating blockchain protocols.
- Building product operating models and developing new applications and features in Aladdin.
- Leading technical integrations.
- Researching new blockchain technologies.
The role requires a strong background in engineering, traditional finance, decentralized finance, blockchain technology, and Aladdin.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field.
- 48 months of experience in the job offered, or a closely related role.
- Four years of experience in:
- Architecting and implementing enterprise technology applications.
- Designing and developing blockchain solutions, including integrations into wider technology stacks.
- Technical understanding of leading blockchain protocols, strengths and limitations.
- Advanced understanding of cryptography, encryption, and automation.
- Proficiency in Java, Python, and Solidity programming languages.
- Experience working with financial products including ETPs and tokenized funds.
- Experience working with financial infrastructure including FIX, SWIFT, and MQ.
- Implementing microservices architecture and ensuring seamless integration with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
- Deep knowledge of major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with technologies like Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.
- Optimizing application performance through CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies.
- Designing, developing, and deploying applications built on a microservices architecture.
- Presenting and working with sales teams.
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Compensation
For New York, NY, the salary range for this position is USD $181,000.00 - USD $215,000.00. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.
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).
Our Hybrid Work Model
BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship. 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.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.
BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees. For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock.