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About the Role
Hyperion is BlackRock’s strategic platform for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled processing of unstructured data, with a focus on Private Markets. This role involves leading the development of the Hyperion platform, shaping a scalable, production-grade platform capable of processing millions of documents, news articles, and websites. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management and cross-functional influence.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical leadership and architectural direction for Hyperion, making strategic trade-offs, solving complex engineering challenges, and evaluating innovative technologies.
- Lead the end-to-end delivery and sustained production operation of this business-critical platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and operational resilience.
- Collaborate with Aladdin leaders to define Hyperion’s strategic direction and priorities, translating them into an engineering roadmap.
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers while fostering an inclusive culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Build strong partnerships with internal platform teams to co-design architecture, align technical approaches, and deliver shared platform capabilities.
- Design Hyperion to support early adopters while evolving the platform towards intuitive, self-service capabilities for both developers and non-technical users.
- Establish and maintain high standards of engineering excellence across security, software quality, documentation, testing, governance, operational resilience, and sustainable platform development.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, launching, and owning enterprise-scale, production-grade platforms in business-critical environments.
- Strong senior-level technical judgement and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Experience making architectural and prioritisation trade-offs across scalability, cost, governance, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
- Advanced expertise in distributed systems and workflow orchestration, including the design of scalable data-processing architectures.
- Proficiency in Python for data pipelines, orchestration, and automation.
- Strong software engineering practices including version control, testing, and CI/CD.
- Advanced expertise in modern platform engineering, including infrastructure-as-code and enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms.
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers while fostering an inclusive engineering culture.
- Exposure to AI-enabled processing of unstructured data is desirable.
- Experience in financial markets is desirable.
Skills
- Python
- Data pipelines
- Orchestration
- Automation
- Version control
- Testing
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Container orchestration
- Cloud-native technologies
- AI-enabled processing of unstructured data
- Private Markets data
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- 10+ years
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.