At BlackRock, we are passionate about technology. We leverage technology to develop actionable solutions that increase productivity, efficiency, and revenues of our sales, service, and product strategy teams.

The role requires working closely with the client business, as well as engineering and product management teams to ensure that data-driven solutions are delivered systematically and with the highest impact. 

You will also partner with internal technology teams on infrastructure, tools, processes, standards, and development, as well as other AI teams across the organization.

The successful candidate will have a passion for technology, comfort working across a range of technology capabilities, including databases, software, and infrastructure, and a love of solving complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• Create data-driven solutions to forecast, analyze and provide recommendations that A) generate sales alpha and identify cross-sell/up-sell opportunities, and B) improve the client experience.

• Deliver Gen AI enabled first-drafts and a chatbot experience to improve the productivity, effectiveness, and strategy of our relationship managers, product teams, COO partners and chiefs of staff.

• Use cutting-edge tools and AI techniques, including both traditional ML and Gen AI, to implement models and insights into products and services.

• Collaborate with other data scientists and AI engineers across the firm on best practices, code review, internal tools, and process improvements

You should have:

• Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred, in a quantitative discipline (computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, physics, engineering or related discipline)

• Asset management / finance work experience

• Minimum 5+ years work experience with being a Technical Lead / Manager a plus

• Intellectual curiosity and a passion for data and emerging technology is a must

• Highly quantitative, with a keen eye for teasing out insights from volumes of data

• Ability to collaborate and present insights to internal stakeholders

• Strong team player

• Technology-savvy and ability to work in multiple systems and languages

• Knowledge of model and algorithm development (mathematical and statistical knowledge)

• Knowledge of NLP and Gen AI

• Proficiency in SQL and Python for programming, data analysis, and modelling

• Experience of developing solutions such as databases, API’s to both source and provide data, and automation a plus