Data Science Manager, Portfolio Analytics Group, Vice President

09 Aug 2024

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About this role

Group Description:

Portfolio Analytics Group (PAG) within BlackRock Solutions delivers actionable insights to our investment and client teams by applying data and financial models through Aladdin technology to influence portfolio decisions.

Team Description:

PAG Data Science team within PAG has a mission to deliver solutions that enable stakeholders to derive greater value, identify opportunities across PAG solutions for scale and reuse and advance team's analytical maturity and career progression.

The team is located in BlackRock's Atlanta innovation Hub (iHub).

Role Description:

The team seeks a talented Data Science manager who will use their analytical and technical skills to generate actionable insights for portfolio decisions made by our investment, risk and client professionals. This position requires demonstrated experience leveraging statistical, machine learning and modern scripting techniques and working with different data architectures to derive insights and build data and analytic solutions. Equally important, this position requires helping manage a team of 2-3 analysts/associates, developing their careers and ensuring execution of multiple projects for a suite of stakeholders. Candidates will be expected to build strong knowledge of financial markets and achieve a deep understanding of investment processes spanning different asset classes. As a technologist, you will contribute to the deployment of our Aladdin Studio toolkit to internal and external clients via research, reporting, and idea-generation projects.

Responsibilities:
  • Help manage a team with the skills, capabilities, and inspiration necessary to successfully drive and sustain a data science focused culture
  • Comfortable working as an individual contributor, in addition to a managerial role, as and when needed
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and partners throughout the organization and leaders within PAG to understand business needs
  • Lead and execute multiple data science projects (automation, ML, interactive tools) with the urgency appropriated for the business objectives across the spectrum of data science techniques to datasets large and small
  • Advance existing initiatives and open opportunities to pursue new and previously unexplored research topics across a wide variety of domains and the broader data sciences and analytic community in BlackRock and Atlanta
  • Willingness to learn and educate others on new tools and techniques as needed
  • Leverage wealth of available data stored in variety of internal and external data stores to deliver actionable insight to drive the decision-making process
  • Visualize and explore data sets to enable the ideation and generation of new, predictive feature
  • Focus on automation and utilizing technology to provide repeatable solutions
  • Master the Aladdin Studio Toolkit and share this knowledge with the whole of PAG

Qualifications:
  • 6-10 years of experience in a highly analytical role in a technology or financial services setting
  • Strong Python coding skills required
  • Knowledge and experience applying statistical and data science methods required (supervised learning, unsupervised learning, time series forecasting, deep learning and natural language processing)
  • Experience working with big data and cloud compute services (Azure, Google Cloud Platform) preferred
  • Knowledge of Azure DevOps functionality like source code management (SCM) preferred
  • Broad and proficient knowledge of modern techniques in scripting, experience querying databases in SQL and using distributed data/computing technologies
  • Experience in financial modeling, analytics, and investment systems preferred
  • Proven experience managing a team, established success delivering to a diverse client base
  • Relentless desire for understanding how processes work.
  • Creativity/innovation in solving unconventional problems, entrepreneurial drive to learn new skills and technologies.
  • Advanced degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Operations Research or similar field is preferred

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work pilot

BlackRock's current hybrid work pilot is designed to help you experience the best of both worlds: the opportunity to connect with colleagues in person and the flexibility to work remotely, with greater time to focus on what's important to you. In line with local health guidance and regulations, employees are generally expected to work 3 days in the office and 2 days from home (on average) each week. For some business groups, more time may be required in the office, while greater flexibility may be in place for others. Our "One BlackRock" culture means you'll be supported to collaborate with your new colleagues while bringing your full self to work - wherever you are.

The health, safety and well-being of our people will always be our top priorities; we will continue to monitor local conditions and health advisories in making decisions about our work environments.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

  • ID: #44727656
  • State: Georgia Atlanta 30326 Atlanta USA
  • City: Atlanta
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-08-09
  • Deadline: 2022-10-07
  • Category: Et cetera