Director - Hyperion Engineering

AboutHyperion

Hyperion is BlackRock’sstrategicplatform forAI-enabled processing ofunstructured data, in particular related to Private Markets.The platformenables internal and eventuallyexternalcustomersto builddata processingworkflows.

The goal istoautomaticallyprocessmillions of documents, newsarticles, and websites every day byleveragingthelatest technology forworkflow orchestrations and AI data processing.

RoleOverview

You will join BlackRock’s Private Markets Data Engineering organisation,leading the development of theHyperion platform.

You willlead the team thatdesigns, builds, andoperatesascalable,production-gradeplatformin close alignment with other leaders of the project as well as leaders of other areas of BlackRock.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownsenior technical leadership andarchitectural directionforthenascentHyperion platform, i.e.,making strategic trade-offs, solve complexchallenges,andadopt innovative technologies,in close collaboration with other leaders.

• Enhance our culture, centred around empowering each team member to innovate and instillinga strong senseof ownership.

• Collaborate withleaders ofBlackRock Aladdin to define the strategic direction and priorities of the project.

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers, combining hands-on technical contribution with people management.

• Own theend-to-enddelivery ofthiscomplex,business criticalplatform, from design through sustained production operation, with accountability for outcomes, reliability, and trust.

• Build strong relationships with other internal platform teams, to co-design the overall architecture andpartner towards a common goal.

• Design the platform in a way that enables early adopters while driving towards a self-service approach for developersand non-technical users.

Required Experience

• Demonstratedexperience (10+ years)designing and launchingenterprise scale,production gradeplatforms, with a strongtrack recordof reliability, performance, and stakeholder trust inbusiness-criticalenvironments.

• Proven ability to exercise senior technical judgement, making architectural and prioritisationtrade-offsacross complex data ecosystems, including scalability, cost, governance, andlong-termsustainability considerations.

• Advancedexpertisedistributed systemsandworkflow orchestration.

• Proficiencyin Python for building and operating data pipelines, orchestration, and automation, supported by solid software engineering fundamentals (version control, testing, CI/CD).

• Advancedexpertisewith modern platform infrastructure and enablement practices,including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform orequivalent), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and related cloud-native technologies.

• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing engineerswhile buildingastrongteamculturewitha strong senseof ownership and proactive innovation.

Desirable Experience

• Exposure toAIenabled capabilitiesfor processing of unstructured data.

• Experience in financial markets.

Who You Are

• Youoperatewitha strong senseof ownership and accountability, taking responsibility for complex,business criticaldata platforms and driving initiatives through to sustained production impact.

• You continuously strive to improve culture beyond your team.

• You apply rigorous, analytical thinking to ambiguous problems, using evidence, engineering judgement, and structureddecision-makingto deliver scalable,well governedsolutions.

• You set a high bar for engineering excellence, embedding best practices in security, code quality, documentation, testing, and operational resilience.

• You collaborate effectively across disciplines, building trusted partnerships with product, analytics, and business stakeholders.

• You lead through influence and example, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, andhigh performingengineering culture.

• Youdemonstratea growth mindset andcontinuous improvementorientation, embracing change and challenging established ways of working to deliver better outcomes at scale.