Director - Quality Engineering and AI Transformation

Quality Engineering & AI Transformation Lead, Aladdin Engineering, Director

About this role

Job Overview

As the Director, Quality & Transformation Engineering for Aladdin Quality Engineering at BlackRock, you will guide a distributed team within a highly regarded financial technology environment. This position is remarkable in both scale and influence. It offers the opportunity to foster innovation and change within Aladdin, BlackRock's investment and operating technology platform. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring that our engineering practices are world-class, exceptionally efficient, and flawlessly delivered!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a dispersed group of approximately 250 quality engineers, including a central hub of engineering transformation leaders.

• Partner with key product leaders and collaborators across multiple businesses to ensure alignment and collaboration.

• Align our transformation strategy with our platform strategy to ensure our multi-year technology strategy is future-facing, adaptive, and risk-adjusted.

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and outstanding quality by applying sophisticated intelligent technology solutions.

• Drive the successful implementation of engineering initiatives that contend on a global scale.

• Determine and closely run key performance indicators to ensure magnificent execution of strategic goals.
  

Who You Are

• You have a deep understanding of how to build for scale, resilience, and risk management from a client perspective.

• You are passionate about modern engineering guidelines, efficiency, and productivity and see it as your mission to advocate for a strong, productive engineering culture.

• You are data-driven and apply measurements to understand impact and outcomes for your organization and collaborators – “what gets measured gets managed.”

• You believe diversity crafts driven advantage through insights, team cohesion, personal dedication, and interpersonal culture.
  

Desired Qualifications

• Significant technical leadership experience in Technology or Financial Services, with a track record of delivering for complex clients.

• Experience as a leader in both software development and quality engineering, ideally in establishing a culture where quality and stability are foundational principles.

• Strong intellectual ability and collaborator leadership skills, evidenced by being able to establish credibility and influence with senior leaders throughout the firm.

• Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a multifaceted business environment and continually prioritize to focus on the key issues/topics.

• Outstanding interpersonal characteristics, reputation, and team orientation, which will enable earning the confidence, dedication, and respect of colleagues.

• AI proven experience, in the context of driving efficiency, automation, and migrations, is a nice-to-have.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents 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, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.

Experience Level

Senior Level