Description
BlackRock is hiring a Vice President – Lead Platform Engineer in New York, New York to lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of scalable, governed, event-driven data platforms for investment, analytics, and reporting systems. The role focuses on event-driven architectures, streaming platforms such as Kafka, data governance, observability, CI/CD, automation, and technical leadership across engineering, product, and platform organizations. The position requires extensive platform engineering, distributed systems, and event-driven experience, strong programming expertise in Python, Java, or Scala, and a proven record of building and scaling production-grade platforms; financial services or asset management experience is preferred. The role is hybrid, requiring at least four days in the office per week, with a stated New York salary range of USD 162,000 to USD 215,000 plus discretionary bonus and benefits.
