About this role
The Senior Data Engineer (VP) designs, develops, and supports enterprise-scale data platform capabilities using Airflow, dbt, Python, SQL, cloud-native technologies, and cloud data warehouse platforms to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performance data solutions. The role focuses on building data pipelines, reusable frameworks, metadata-driven processing, data quality and governance capabilities, workflow orchestration, and platform automation, while leveraging emerging technologies such as Agentic AI to enhance engineering productivity and operational efficiency. Working closely with cross-functional teams, the engineer delivers end-to-end platform solutions, supports production operations, drives continuous improvements in platform performance and reliability, contributes to engineering best practices and platform modernization initiatives, and mentors junior engineers to foster technical excellence and continuous learning.
Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, including requirements refinement, sprint planning, effort estimation, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, to support successful delivery of platform capabilities.
Design, develop, and optimize core enterprise data platform capabilities, including data acquisition, ingestion, transformation, workflow orchestration, and reusable processing frameworks, leveraging Python, SQL, cloud-native technologies, and cloud data warehouse platforms to support large-scale, high-performance data processing.
Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines supporting data ingestion, transformation, validation, and distribution across enterprise cloud environments.
Implement metadata-driven processing frameworks and reusable engineering patterns that improve automation, standardization, scalability, and reuse.
Build and enhance platform capabilities related to metadata management, lineage, dependency tracking, data quality, governance, and workflow control.
Incorporate Agentic AI capabilities into platform services to enhance automation, intelligent decision-making, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
Develop and maintain system, integration, regression, and test automation frameworks to ensure platform quality, reliability, and production readiness.
Contribute to engineering standards, architectural patterns, operational best practices, and framework conventions that improve platform maintainability, consistency, scalability, and supportability.
Drive continuous improvements in platform performance, scalability, resilience, observability, and operational efficiency across data workflows and framework components.
Support product documentation by providing technical expertise, implementation details, and content validation to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with platform capabilities.
Conduct live product demonstrations and participate in user workshops to showcase platform capabilities, gather feedback, validate solutions, and support platform adoption
Strong hands-on experience writing and optimizing complex SQL, including stored procedures, UDFs, and performance-critical queries.
Extensive hands-on experience with dbt, including data modeling, transformation, testing, documentation, and deployment within modern data platforms.
Proven track record of improving the performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability of enterprise data platforms and pipelines.
Hands-on experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Snowpipe, Kafka) and messaging platforms for building scalable, real-time data processing solutions.
Hands-on experience building solutions in cloud-native and distributed environments, leveraging object storage, cloud data services, and major cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Exposure to Apache Iceberg, leveraging schema evolution, partition evolution, and time-travel capabilities to build scalable and reliable data lake solutions.
Experience with SDK and API-based development, enabling seamless integration of data platforms, cloud services, and enterprise applications through secure and scalable interfaces.
Exposure to AI-native development tools such as Windsurf, Cursor, and Antigravity, leveraging AI-assisted coding, testing, and automation to improve engineering productivity and software delivery.
Understanding of Agentic AI architectures, including Skills, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Vector Databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI Agent orchestration concepts.
Strong understanding of software engineering principles, scalable system design, and modern development practices, including Agile methodologies, Git-based source control, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and production-grade development standards.
Experience implementing and managing metadata, lineage, dependency management, data quality controls, observability, and operational governance within enterprise data ecosystems.
Experience driving technical design decisions, decomposing complex initiatives, mentoring engineers, and collaborating effectively with cross-functional engineering and business stakeholders.
Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills, with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset and the ability to apply innovative, out-of-the-box thinking to solve complex challenges.
Proven ability to mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and engineering best practices across teams.
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.
Guidance on AI use for candidates
At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance (opens in new window) on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.
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.
