Application Engineering Director
BlackRock
Gurugram, IndiaPosted 13 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Minimum 12 years of leadership experience in enterprise‑scale software engineering.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required.
- Strong retirement plan among benefits.
- Hybrid work model: 4 days in‑office, 1 day remote.
- Exposure to AI, LLM concepts, cloud‑native platforms, and regulated financial‑services environments.
- Comprehensive healthcare and tuition reimbursement.
Role overview
Aladdin Accounting, a fast‑growing business within BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, builds and operates technology platforms that enable accurate, scalable, and efficient accounting across global operations. As an Engineering Director, Application Engineering you will shape architecture, engineering strategy, and delivery for enterprise‑scale platforms supporting global post‑trade operations, linking long‑term technology vision with pragmatic execution, influencing critical technical decisions, and developing the next generation of engineering leaders.
Responsibilities
- Apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results.
- Define and drive technology strategy, target-state architecture, and engineering direction across application and data platforms while ensuring alignment with broader Aladdin strategy.
- Provide technical leadership for distributed application, integration, and data platforms, guiding critical design and architecture decisions across enterprise technologies.
- Translate business priorities into executable technology roadmaps, leading modernization initiatives and balancing technical debt reduction with delivery objectives.
- Establish engineering standards and ensure solutions are designed for quality, resilience, security, operational excellence, and governance.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to evaluate strategic trade‑offs, manage dependencies, and maximize business outcomes.
- Develop senior engineering talent and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Drive adoption of AI‑enabled engineering capabilities and intelligent automation opportunities while maintaining appropriate risk and control standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 12 years of demonstrated leadership experience across enterprise‑scale software engineering environments.
- Deep expertise in modern application architecture, distributed systems, microservices, application programming interfaces (APIs), event‑driven architectures, and enterprise software design.
- Strong technical depth across enterprise application development and data architecture, including large‑scale processing, data modeling, performance optimization, and software engineering best practices.
- Experience designing and operating large‑scale application and data platforms using modern messaging, caching, and distributed processing approaches.
- Demonstrated success defining technology strategy, leading complex multi‑team initiatives, and balancing modernization investments with delivery objectives.
- Strong leadership, communication, decision‑making, risk management, reliability, security, and operational excellence capabilities within business‑critical environments.
- Exposure to artificial intelligence (AI), large language model (LLM) concepts, cloud‑native platforms, observability technologies, automation frameworks, and regulated financial‑services environments.
Benefits
- Strong retirement plan.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Comprehensive healthcare.
- Support for working parents.
- Flexible Time Off (FTO).
- Hybrid work model: at least 4 days in the office per week with flexibility to work from home 1 day.
Additional details
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