BlackRock · 18 hours ago
Senior AI-Enabled Solution Architect - Aladdin Engineering, VP
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expBlackRock is a global leader in investment management, helping clients achieve financial well-being. The Senior AI-Enabled Solution Architect will lead technical design, enhance productivity through AI, and mentor engineers while driving excellence in portfolio management engineering.
Asset ManagementCrowdfundingFinancial ServicesFinTechReal Estate Investment
Responsibilities
Hands-On Technical Leadership - actively contributing Technical Design Deployment Readiness Reviews, Core Reviews and the whole PDLC
Accelerate productivity with an AI-enabled PDLC with a strong focus on quality & resiliency
Provide operational excellence to our clients with production support with an “SRE” mindset
Influence and mentor other engineers in the team, raising the bar on technical excellence
Collaborate in a global, multi-office environment, aligning teams across geographies around shared architectural vision
Champion a strong engineering culture grounded in continuous learning and optimizing to best practices such as DORA
Build domain and technical context quickly and translate that into specifications, plans and actionable Agile backlogs
Qualification
Required
B.S. / M.S. degree in a STEM field such as Computer Science or Engineering
8+ years of proven experience
Proven experience operating as a Solution Architect, Senior Engineer or Team Lead, defining and owning technical direction across initiatives with Agile Practices such as Lean or Scaled Agile
Demonstrated ability to act as a work definer at scale: shaping ambiguous problem spaces into well structured initiatives, clear architectural runways, and executable delivery plans
Strong background designing enterprise scale, distributed systems, balancing functional requirements with non-functional concerns such as resiliency, scalability, latency, and operability
Hands on experience with AI enabled SDLC / PDLC practices, including: Using AI to accelerate design exploration, prototyping, and architectural decision making; Applying AI assisted development, testing, code review, and documentation practices; Embedding AI capabilities into product workflows and platform services responsibly and securely; Frameworks such as Windsurf & Cursor and GitHub Copilot
Ability to partner effectively with Product Management, Engineering, and Business leaders to translate strategic objectives into coherent architectural strategies
Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to articulate complex architectural concepts to senior stakeholders and align diverse teams behind a shared technical vision
Track record at articulating architectural tradeoffs and design options, including impacts on scalability, resilience, cost, and delivery velocity
Strong architectural governance skills: setting standards, guiding design reviews, managing technical debt, and ensuring long term platform sustainability
A proven foundation in modern languages such Core Java and UI technologies such as React & Angular
Experience of API design principles & Event Driven Architecture
Rigorous approach to quality through demonstrable TDD & BDD experience
Preferred
Expertise in Domain Driven Design (DDD), including domain modelling and aligning architecture to complex business domains
Front office Portfolio Management or Wealth Management domain experience, with a strong understanding of investment workflows, decision making processes, and the role of technology in supporting portfolio managers and advisors
Domain knowledge of asset classes & analytics (e.g., equities, fixed income, multi asset, alternatives) and how their characteristics influence risk, performance, liquidity, and system design
Experience with portfolio construction concepts, including asset allocation, constraints, benchmarks, rebalancing, and optimization, and how these map to scalable platform and architecture decisions
Exposure to event driven architectures at scale, including microservices, messaging, and streaming platforms aligned to business domains
Experience shaping or contributing to platform strategies that enable multiple product teams to move faster with consistency and autonomy
Familiarity with cloud native and hybrid architectures, including patterns for scalability, resilience, and cost aware design in large enterprises – including frameworks like Kubernetes
Exposure to modern DevOps and platform engineering practices that support high throughput, high quality delivery at enterprise scale, and demonstrable improvements across DORA metrics
Familiarity with micro frontend architectures, including their use in large scale, multi team environments to enable independent domain ownership, parallel delivery, and consistent user experiences across complex platform
Benefits
Annual discretionary bonus
Healthcare
Leave benefits
Retirement benefits
Strong retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Comprehensive healthcare
Support for working parents
Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Company
BlackRock
BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$6.59BKey Investors
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2025-03-27Post Ipo Debt· $1.08B
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