Associate

Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. – Seattle, WA

About the role

Supports a large-scale, enterprise data and investment platform used in the global financial services industry. The role sits within investment data operations and incident management, supporting Aladdin, BlackRock’s proprietary end-to-end investment management and risk analytics platform used by asset managers, insurers, and financial institutions worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, oversee, and continuously improve a 24×7 global Incident Management process supporting mission-critical data production systems within Aladdin Data, which ingest, process, validate, and distribute financial market data, reference data, pricing data, and risk analytics.
• Operate and enhance enterprise incident and service management workflows using IT service management systems, production monitoring tools, alerting platforms, and operational dashboards to ensure data availability, accuracy, and timeliness for downstream investment, risk, and reporting functions.
• Lead daily global operational governance forums (“Ops Zone meetings”) to review system health, incident root causes, risk exposures, and remediation progress across geographically distributed production teams.
• Conduct structured investigation and analysis of Green Package–related issues, where “Green Packages” refer to standardized production health, data quality, and control checks for critical Aladdin data pipelines.
• Design and implement process improvements, control enhancements, and operational standards to reduce incident recurrence and improve service quality, including escalation models, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and post-incident review frameworks.
• Develop active stakeholder engagement and build deep networks with multiple teams to maximize the added value of production.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent in Business Analytics, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a closely related role.
• Alternatively, a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Business Analytics, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field and three years of experience in the job offered or a closely related role.

Skills

• Risk modeling and scenario analysis
• Unix and SQL
• Data analytics
• Technical communication to internal and external stakeholders
• Tableau
• Commodity market analytics
• Data pipeline management (ETL)
• SAS basics

Pay

For Seattle, WA the salary range is USD 130,000 – USD 148,000.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Leave benefits
• Strong retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)

Schedule

BlackRock’s hybrid work model requires employees 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.