Job purpose:
- The Investment Platform team within EII is seeking to expand in order to improve business efficiency and scalability
- This business-side role entails working with Portfolio Engineers, other members of the Investment Platform team and the BlackRock technology teams, in order to build a best-in-class investment platform
- The person filling this role will facilitate the development and maintenance of portfolio engineering systems for index investment processes
- A successful candidate will be able to understand the index equity portfolio construction process and will be able to reliably build and deliver working code that both serves the immediate need and is robust and extensible enough to evolve and support scale as our business grows.
Your Responsibilities:
- Implement a leading-edge platform, primarily in Python, for the development, deployment, maintenance and monitoring of investment systems
- Identify, and implement, opportunities for improvement of operational processes
- Understand the BlackRock technology platform and integrate the investment platform into it
- Work with BlackRock technology teams that support EII, to ensure that they understand our requirements and build well-suited tools.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in computer science/engineering/quantitative field with strong computing skills
- Experience in object-oriented multithreaded programming
- Exceptional technical and programming skills in Python (preferred), Java, C++
- Experience with SDLC including agile development methodologies, test-driven development, code versioning tools and continuous integration
- Experience specifying unit tests and system tests
- Experience writing functional and technical specification documents
- Experience working with database and related technologies
- Experience working in trading or finance related fields, with experience of software and platform development
- Experience with large data sets and statistical processing is a plus
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and project management skills
- Excellent team player with high level of motivation and inquisitiveness; comfort with ambiguity
- Effective communication skills
- High level of self-motivation with ability to own and drive multiple projects at once
- High degree of professional integrity, discretion and judgement.
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