Jave Developer, Quantitative Analytics Engineering, Vice President

JavaDeveloper,Quantitative AnalyticsEngineering, VP,Gurgaon

About this role

Are you interested in building innovative technology that shapes financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a startup but want to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in technology and finance?

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, riskmanagementand advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and werepresenteach client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

Job Purpose/Background:
TheQuantitative AnalyticsEngineering (QAE)is responsible forthe development of financial models underpinning the risk management analytics produced at BlackRock. The group also contributes to the development of infrastructure and applications responsibleto produceanalytics and the delivery of analytic content to risk management professionals. If any of this excites you, we are looking to expand our team. We are rebuilding our Analytics and Modeling Technology platform using multiple technologies (Java, Python), and this is the best time to join the team if you want to influence software design, architecture, fundamental platform solutions, and transform the way we deliver Analytics to our clients!

QAEislooking foraSeniorJavadeveloperwho can work out ofGurgaonBlackRock office with other quant and application developers in thebroaderteam.

Role Responsibilities

• As aJavaDeveloper, you will be a key member of theQAEteam inGurgaon, mostly responsible for thedesign and buildofscalable and modular software components for quantitative analysis and financial modeling. Implement analytics forperformance and risk engines, and variable high volume data processingpipelines.

• Work closely with quantitative analysts, modelers, and other developers to understand requirements and integrate quantitative models into the software ecosystem.

• Stay abreast of the latest developments in machine learning, quantitative finance, and technology to incorporate innovative solutions into applications.

• Enhance the performance of existing models, ensuring theyoperateefficiently at scale.

• Proactive participant in architectural and design decisions

• Facilitate design and code-review sessions to ensure software meets functional and compatibility requirements, as well as high quality standards.

• Drive the integration and adaptation of new cloud solutions.

• Additionalcore engineering functions, such as:

• Contributions to the application code base.

• Build widely used and reliable fundamental components.

• Anticipate new opportunities to continuously evolve the resiliency profile of scoped Applications and Architectures.

Skills/Qualifications

• B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

• Minimum6+ years of experience inJava-basedfull scale productionsoftware development and design

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, andproduction troubleshootingskills

• A passion for providing fundamental software solutions forhighly available, performant full stack applications with a “Student of Technology” attitude

• Experience with software testing and ambition for providing high quality products

• Passion to work in a team-environment, multitasking, and effective communication skills

• Knowledge of software development methodologies (analysis, design, development, testing) and basic understanding of Agile / Scrummethodologyand practices

• Ability and willingness to learn fast, multi-task, self-motivate and pick up new things easily

• Ability to work independently and efficiently in a fast-paced and team-oriented environment

• Demonstrated ability to build positive relationships

Good to Have

• Understanding ofAgile work environments, including knowledge of GIT, CI/CD.

• Knowledge of investment managementprocess, portfolio risk analytics.

• Nice to have but notrequired: experience withdistributed systems,high performance computing,Microsoft Azureis a big plus.