Senior Data Engineer (Associate)

About this role

This role sits within Preqin, a part of BlackRock. Preqin plays a key role in how we are revolutionizing private markets data and technology for clients globally, complementing our existing Aladdin technology platform to deliver investment solutions for the whole portfolio.

In this role you'll be joining the multi-disciplinary Orion team, where innovation meets real business impact. We're revolutionizing data management by harnessing the power of automation, machine learning, and AI to transform how we collect and process data. As part of the Orion team, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, developing and maintaining our cutting-edge workflow orchestration platform. This role offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies to streamline large-scale data handling from diverse sources, ensuring that data is always accessible, accurate, and relevant to our clients' needs.

As a Data Engineer, you will be part of a high-performing engineering pod. Your work ensures our data flows are robust, scalable, and aligned with business needs, forming the backbone of Orion’s data-driven products and insights.

This role requires an individual with excellent technical skills to evolve our back-end infrastructure. Our Data Engineers have an opportunity to significantly accelerate these changes and help shape our organization for the future.

You will utilize your expertise to ingest, model, and maintain data that enhances our internal data processing capabilities. As such, we seek an individual who demonstrates efficient and productive ways of processing data as this project increases in scale.

We seek an individual who will be instrumental in bridging the gap between technical and non-technical team members, ensuring clear and effective communication of technical concepts and data-driven strategies.

 Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop workflows that seamlessly combine AI/ML with human expertise to accelerate data collection and improve decision-making processes.

• Prioritise work based on data-driven insights and outcome-based goals in collaboration with stakeholders.

• Design and implementation of scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest, process, and deliver high-quality data to downstream applications and analytics platforms.

• Work closely with engineering teams across the business, ensuring the best technical solutions are adopted, and elevate development standards through knowledge sharing and best practices.

• Collaborate across engineering, product, and data scientist teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensuring our data assets are organized and accessible.

• Actively participate in technical discussions about new product directions, data modelling, and architectural decisions, ensuring our technology platform remains extensible.

• Accelerate data collection as scale from millions of sources and across various databases.

• Improve and maintain observability and alerting across our data systems, ensuring visibility into pipeline health and data quality.

• Propose smart, pragmatic, and diverse approaches to address a variety of business problems.

• Explore new technologies, approaches, and ideas that help to drive our business goals in unexpected ways.

About you

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated professional interested in shaping the future of financial technology with a proven track record of building software solutions at scale. They will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment where they are trusted to work with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility.

What we are looking for

• Strong SQL and DBT experience, with a proven track record of building and maintaining analytics-ready datasets

• Advanced Python knowledge

• Experience with databases like Postgres and Snowflake

• Experience of working within cloud provider services – Azure or AWS (preferred) and utilisation of infrastructure as code

• A data-driven mindset to make development decisions based on robust analyses

• Ability to collaborate effectively with designers, engineering and data scientist teams to build our technical solutions.

• You have driven technical solution design, taking the balance of engineering quality, testing, scalability and security into consideration

• A “let’s do it” and “challenge accepted” attitude when faced with less known or challenging tasks, with a willingness to learn new technologies and ways of working

• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all organizational levels and bridge technical perspectives

• Proficiency in English required; additional languages and prior work experience at a global firm are desirable.

• Experience processing structured and unstructured data

• Ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment, developing iterative sustainable solutions with best practices (security, code quality, documentation) and long-term vision

Nice to Have:

• Experience with AI-related projects/products

• Knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. 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. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

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.

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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.