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