Vice President, Java Developer (New York, NY)

New York, New York
BlackRock
Description
About this role
Elevate your career by joining the world’s largest asset manager! Thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance! We know you want to feel valued every single day and be recognized for your contribution. At BlackRock, we strive to empower our employees and effectively engage your involvement in our success.

You can work at one of the world’s top FinTech companies. We sell our Aladdin analytics platform to over 100 of the top global financial institutions and corporations, handling many trillion USD of assets.

You can help build quantitative financial models and portfolio analytics that help managing most of the money of the world’s largest asset manager.

You can bring all yourself to the job. From the top of the firm down we embrace the values, identities and ideas brought by our employees.

We are looking for curious people with a strong background in writing excellent code, awesome problem-solving skills, insatiable appetite for learning and innovating, adding to BlackRock’s vibrant tech culture.

If any of this excites you, we are looking to expand our team. We currently have open roles in the liquidity and trading analytics team within the Financial Modeling Group (FMG) in New York. We are rebuilding our Analytics platform, and this is the best time to join the team if you want to influence architecture, cloud strategy and transform the way we deliver Analytics to our clients! We are hiring at all levels: from recent graduates to experienced professionals.

Financial Modeling Group (FMG)
The FMG is a diverse and global team with a keen interest and expertise in all things related to technology and financial analytics. The group is responsible for the research and development of quantitative financial models and tools across many different areas – single-security pricing, prepayment models, risk, return attribution, liquidity, optimization and portfolio construction, scenario analysis and simulations, etc. – and covering all asset classes.

The group is also responsible for the technology platform that delivers those models to our internal partners and external clients, and their integration with Aladdin. FMG conducts leading research on the areas above, delivering state-of-the-art models. FMG publishes applied scientific research frequently, and our members present regularly at leading industry conferences. FMG engages constantly with the sales team in client visits and meetings.

Background and Responsibilities
We are seeking a Vice President, Java Developer that will be based onsite in our New York, NY office. The role is for a key member of the FMG Portfolio Modeling Analytics team. FMG Portfolio Modeling Analytics team uses multiple technologies (Java/J2EE, Python, R) and provides stable, scalable platform with appropriate standards and procedures to support the diverse nature and demands of a wide range of investment teams and clients.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Finance or similar area. An advanced degree is a plus.
• Minimum of 5-6 years demonstrated experience in core Java programming, multi-threading and understanding of Java Memory model. Practical experience programming and code optimization for real-time data streams processing.
• Confident in building models to solve problems including time series forecasting, clustering problems and hands on experience with a range of statistical and machine learning approaches.
• Strong background in Mathematics: statistics, probability, linear algebra is a big plus.
• Previous experience or knowledge in pricing or market liquidity is not required but a big plus.
• Previous experience with Cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) and working for top Tech companies is a big plus.
• Experience with UNIX operating system and relational databases.
• Ability and willingness to learn fast, multi-task, self-motivate and pick up new things easily
• Ability to work independently and efficiently in a fast-paced and team-oriented environment.

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.

About BlackRock

BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable.
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