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Data Engineer, Vice President at BlackRock

Data Engineer, Vice President

BlackRock · GB

3 weeks ago

Data Engineer, Vice President

BlackRock · GB

a month ago
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About the Role

Company Intelligence is Preqin's private company data platform, providing structured, auditable company-level data and analytics across the private markets investment lifecycle. You will join BlackRock's Private Markets Data Engineering organization, working on a strategically important platform at the center of Preqin's private markets data strategy. The team is responsible for expanding and enhancing Preqin's global private company coverage while building scalable data products and analytics capabilities that increase transparency across private markets.

Responsibilities

  • Provide senior technical leadership and architectural direction for data platforms and pipelines that support the scalable expansion of Preqin's private company universe while ensuring performance, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of complex, business-critical data engineering initiatives, from solution design through production operation, with accountability for reliability, quality, and business outcomes.
  • Drive a platform-centric engineering strategy by developing reusable frameworks, shared datasets, and extensible data products that support multiple Company Intelligence use cases.
  • Establish and maintain high standards for data quality, governance, lineage, observability, and operational risk management across enterprise-grade data assets.
  • Partner with product, analytics, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable data solutions that deliver measurable business value.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of data engineers while maintaining hands-on technical contribution and fostering a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale data platforms, applying sound architectural judgement across scalability, governance, cost efficiency, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
  • Advanced expertise in SQL, analytical data modelling, and modern analytics engineering practices, including transformation frameworks, testing, documentation, and embedded data quality controls.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and data pipeline engineering, including orchestration, automation, dependency management, observability, and operational resilience in production environments.
  • Experience designing and operating cloud-native data platforms and enterprise data warehouses, supported by modern platform engineering practices such as infrastructure as code and container orchestration.
  • Experience leading, mentoring, and developing data engineers while maintaining strong hands-on technical credibility.
  • Experience working with private markets or alternative investment data, supporting investment, research, or portfolio analytics at scale.
  • Exposure to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities, including automation, model-driven data products, and intelligent workflow solutions.

Skills

  • SQL
  • Analytical data modelling
  • Analytics engineering
  • Python
  • Data pipeline engineering
  • Cloud-native data platforms
  • Enterprise data warehouses
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Container orchestration

Location

  • Office

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Vice President
  • Senior technical leadership

Benefits

  • Retirement investment and tools
  • Education reimbursement
  • Comprehensive resources to support physical health and emotional well-being
  • Family support programs
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO)

About the Company

  • 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.
  • To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com.
  • We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.

Equal Opportunity

  • BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.