About this role

This role sits within Black Rock’s Private Markets Data Engineering (PMDE) team, supporting the delivery of data infrastructure and analytics capabilities for private markets. As an Associate Data Engineer, you will focus on the hands-on development and support of data pipelines and analytics solutions, working under the guidance of more senior engineers.

You will contribute to well‑defined workstreams within complex data initiatives, gaining exposure to modern data engineering practices while developing your technical and domain expertise in private markets data.

About Project Luna

This role is primarily aligned to Project Luna, a strategic initiative focused on modernising how private markets data is managed and consumed at Black Rock. The project is building scalable data infrastructure and analytics platforms to improve transparency, operational efficiency, and data driven decision making across private markets.

As an Associate Data Engineer, you will support the implementation and ongoing enhancement of these platforms by contributing to pipeline development, data modelling, and analytics solutions as part of a broader delivery team.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines and analytics solutions using Snowflake, SQL, and Python, following established architectural standards.

• Implement data models and transformations to support analytics and reporting use cases.

• Work with senior engineers to deliver assigned components of larger data initiatives.

• Collaborate with BI analysts and business partners to clarify data requirements and translate them into technical tasks.

• Support data quality, reliability, and performance through testing, monitoring, and issue resolution.

• Apply established best practices in data governance, security, and documentation.

• Participate in code reviews and team forums to support consistent engineering standards.

• Proactively raise risks, dependencies, or data issues to senior team members.

• Contribute to a collaborative team environment and continuous improvement initiatives.

About You

• Experience in data engineering or a similar technical role, with hands-on exposure to Snowflake, SQL, and Python.

• Working knowledge of data architecture concepts and data pipeline design.

• Familiarity with data transformation and orchestration tools such as dbt, Dagster, or Airflow.

• Experience working alongside data engineers, analysts, or BI teams in a delivery focused environment.

• Ability to take well defined requirements and implement technical solutions with guidance.

• Strong attention to detail and a structured approach to problem solving.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

• Clear communicator, able to explain technical topics to non-technical partners when required technical partners when required.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.

• Familiarity with CI/CD practices or infrastructure as code tools (e.g. Terraform).

• Exposure to analytics or AI/ML enabled data use cases.

• Some familiarity with the financial services sector and private capital markets (e.g. private equity, real estate, infrastructure).

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

Black Rock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at Black Rock.

About Black Rock

At Black Rock, 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.

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Black Rock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.