Team Overview

Within Technology and Operations, BlackRock’s Regulatory Operations team designs, implements and supports a significant proportion of BlackRock’s regulatory reporting obligations. Team members work in conjunction with business units throughout the firm, and externally, to create and operate solutions that:

• Meet regulatory reporting requirements;

• Are scalable across all of BlackRock’s business areas;

• Satisfy internal audit requirements;

• Have the appropriate controls in place to ensure reporting is complete and accurate.

Responsibilities:

Within Regulatory Operations, Citizen Developers are members of a technology focussed sub-team, tasked with using Python and SQL to implement automated controls for our major G20 regulations including EMIR, MIFIR and SFTR. We are expected to adhere to a full-development lifecycle as well as guiding fellow developers in the team. Alongside this, the role will include helping to formalize the build, release, and deployment process of Python applications.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will work closely with business areas to build efficient and modular controls. Although predominantly a Python and SQL based role, they will also need to demonstrable the ability to work across technologies focusing on the best tool for the job.

• Solid grasp of Python, ideally in a financial environment;

• Ability to code in an object-oriented manner;

• Experience of unit and end-to-end testing of Python;

• Use of code repositories (such as Azure) and GIT;

• Knowledge of SQL;

• Experience in analysing large data sets;

• Intermediate Excel Skills;

• Ability to face off to business users to capture requirements;

• Self-starter, ability to adapt on the fly, and learn from other technology teams.

Great to have:

• Suits candidates with 1 to 4 years of prior experience

• Experience of building controls, completeness and accuracy checks in any software environment;

• Ability to navigate large and complex database models;

• Standout colleague with collaborative and good interpersonal skills, any prior history of training other team members;

• Good attention to detail; willing to take action attitude; and willingness to roll up sleeves;

• Passion for learning, development and deployment of solutions in the rapidly evolving AI/GenAI arena

• Knowledge of regulations applicable to the Asset Management industry (e.g. EMIR, SFTR, MIFIR) and related financial instruments;

• Knowledge of regulatory costs and periodic filings (e.g. AIFMD, ADV, KIIDS);

• Snowflake experience will be an added advantage

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