The Organization:
The Aladdin Product Group (APG) sits at the heart of BlackRock, responsible for crafting, building, and operating Aladdin and eFront. Being a member of APG means working with the most thoughtful in the industry to build innovative products that shape financial markets. Are you interested in establishing a career foundation at the intersection of risk and portfolio management processes and technology products? We are 1,400 strong and are passionate about using technology to solve our clients' toughest problems!
The Scope
Private Market Content Steward: EFront provides private market data collected by or on behalf of our customers. This content is critical for reporting and analysis by eFront’s end users. In this role you will need to understand client use cases of content and be a steward for their needs. You will work with engineering to move a local data process to a cloud native system creating scale. You will partner with SMEs to optimize the data model of private markets to make content consumption by end users simpler.
Data Centralization and API Stakeholder: eFront will Implement technical underpinnings to support automated investment processing through event-based architecture, API collaborate with defined contracts/service levels, data caching to increase scale and automated end to end test capabilities. You will partner the platform modernization team as we build out our offering. You will learn the data flow between our systems, set a data governance structure around content sets, and help define external APIs.
The Role:
In this role you will be responsible for leading efforts to implement product strategy, elicit requirements, prioritize backlogs, map dependencies, and mitigate development blockers in order to deliver on our broader vision.
You will have the opportunity to learn about and get along with a variety of eFront capabilities, from optimization to reporting, to construct truly connected investor workflows. You will also closely connect with the marketplace, our client community, and BlackRock business strategy to steer our product's direction. In close partnership with a diverse engineering, financial modeling, and business teams, you will deliver innovative capabilities with a world-class customer experience.
The Responsibilities:
As the data centralization product manager, you will learn the key client use cases for private markets content and understand the flow of content between applications. You are responsible to act as the Private Market Content data steward and be a key stakeholder in our modernization plan.
As the steward of private market content, you will partner with SMEs to help make our content more consumable by end users. As a key stakeholder in modernizing our platform, you will need to help implement a technology first design by being the voice of the customer.
About you:
- Adept at building and maintaining trusted and credible relationships with clients and colleagues
- Full of initiative and capable of working effectively in a fast-paced business environment
- Able to partner and influence decisions among colleagues across functions
- Strong at problem-solving
- Have strong written, verbal, and presentation abilities
- Have experience working with data and modeling data
- Understand API setups and requirements
- Have a solid understanding of databases and features people expect from them
Qualifications:
- 3-5 Years experience with private markets data, data modeling, and/or APIs
- Knowledge of eFront systems or competitors is a plus
- English speakers
- Bachelor's Degree
